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1. Photo 430/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/8
Title:
'South Persia'. Photographer: Lt. A. A. Crookshank (Curzon Collection)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of South Persia and the Persian Gulf coastline. The photos are presented initially by location (Muscat, Jask, Bandar Abbás, Niríz, Yezd, Isfahan to Shiráz Road, Pasargadae, Naksh-i-Rustam, Naksh-i-Rajab, Persepolis, Shir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900-15 Apr 1902
Extent:
119 b&w photographs bound into a maroon and red half leather album

2. Photo 430/75

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/75
Title:
Curzon Collection: Curzon's first year as Viceroy
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains informal snapshots and work by professional photographers, showing views of various interiors, viceregal functions and events, together with landscape views of: Bombay, Lucknow, Calcutta, Barakpur, Mashobra, Bhopal, Benares, Narkanda, Delhi, Gwalior, Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1900
Extent:
1 black full-leather, unpublished album (29 pages) containing 99 photographic prints pasted into volume (and one loose) with handwritten captions beneath

3. Photo 430/78

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903. Of His Majesty King Edward VII. Viceroy. Baron Curzon of Kedleston, P.C., G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E.' (Crookshank)
Scope & Content:
Imprint: The Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903 (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1903) Genre/Subject Matter: The volume is a specially published edition, under the imprint of Bourne and Shepherd and printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London. The title page and four page introduction are followe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 red full-leather, published album (207 pages) containing 133 photographic lightly tipped onto album pages with letterpress captions preceding.

4. Photo 430/84

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/84
Title:
Curzon Collection: Views of Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier. Photographer(s): Bird, Robert
Scope & Content:
Collection of 119 loose prints, captioned in pencil on the reverse, relating to Afghanistan. The material can be broken down into three distinct series as follows: Prints 1-7 Views of Kabul taken c. 1880 by an unidentified photographer. Prints 8-52 Series of small platinum prints originally co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880-1904
Extent:
129 items