The folder contains 28 photographs which had been selected for inclusion in Sergey Prokofieff's memoir 'Glimpses of India' (Mss Eur F761/2/4). The photographs show: a painter at work in Kashmir, Indian holy men (sadhu), a Hindu marriage, a tractor being loaded, musicians and dancer, a woman at...
Photographs showing people and scenic views in Kashmir
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The folder contains 26 photographs and 1 envelope, mostly showing views of the countryside and scenes of rural village life (fishermen, cattlemen, sharpening a knife, barber shaving a man, water carriers, interior of a house).
Papers relating to the career of Lt-Col Sir James Robert Dunlop Smith
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Newspaper cuttings; correspondence (2 letters from Earl Roberts; and a letter by Dunlop Smith on the subject of famine in Rajputana dated 3 June 1900); obituaries; speech by Dunlop Smith at the Chatham Club Dinner, 6 July 1916, on 'India as part of the Empire of Today'; speeches of farewell on Du...
The folder contains the following four memoranda: The State jewels of the Lahore Durbar, 23 February 1912; Engraved spinal rubies, 21 March 1912 (2 copies); Engrave spinal ruby, 28 March 1912; Jewels of the late King of Oudh, 17 May 1917.