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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 174(12)
Title:: Picture of the Paradise Garden of al-Baqi'. Photographer: H. A. Mirza & Sons
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter This image shows the cemetery known as the Paradise of al-Baqi' in Medina, which was the first Islamic cemetery. Located immediately to the southeast of the Masjid al-Nabawi, the cemetery holds significance due to its status as the burial site of many companions and relativ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Urdu
Date Range:: c 1907
Extent:: 1 b/w photographic print laid down on a blue card window mount

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 174(13)
Title:: Picture of the Mosque of Quba. Photographer: H. A. Mirza & Sons
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter This photograph depicts the mosque at Quba, which is located about three miles south-southeast of the Masjid al-Nabawi in the former outskirts of Medina. Quba was the first place for public prayer founded by Mohammed during the hijra from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD. The su...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English and Urdu
Date Range:: c 1907
Extent:: 1 b/w photographic print laid down on a blue card window mount

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 355/1
Title:: Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1860s-1880s
Extent:: 232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 392/30
Title:: Stein Collection: Albums A.44-50. Tour of Swat, 1926. Photographer(s): Stein, Marc Aurel
Scope & Content:: This collection of seven albums (containing 438 prints, numbered 1-419, plus duplicates) covers Stein's 1926 tour of Upper Swat in two sequences. Albums A.44-A.47 are larger formats prints, while albums A.48-A.50 cover the same period in smaller format photographs. Prints 385-419 from the same s...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1926
Extent:: 438 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 392/37
Title:: Stein Collection: Albums A.85–92. Punjab, Iran and Swat, 1931–33
Scope & Content:: Eight albums containing a total of 492 prints, covering the following subjects: Prints 1–77 Expedition to Jhelum District, Punjab, November 1931-January 1932 Prints 78–254 First Expedition to Iran, January-May 1932 Prints 255–394 Second Expedition to Iran, November 1932-May 1933 Prints 395–4...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1931-1933
Extent:: 492 photographic prints

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 392/49
Title:: Stein Collection: Architectural Views of Delhi by F. H. Andrews. Photographer(s): Andrews, Fred Henry
Scope & Content:: Collection of 17 ¼-plate and 9 ½-plate glass negatives (no prints), taken by Stein's friend F. H. Andrews. The majority are uncaptioned, although a few are inscribed 'Dehli 1921' in the negative. The majority of the photographs are of architectural views in Delhi, although there are also a few v...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1921
Extent:: 26 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 392/53
Title:: Stein Collection: Photographs of Iranian pottery fragments and other artefacts. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:: Collection of 166 duplicate negatives on modern safety film, made from nitrate originals now destroyed, 42 glass duplicate negatives (178-221) and 13 nitrate film negatives. This material, presumably photographed in England and probably not by Stein himself, forms the basis for most of the illus...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1930s
Extent:: 221 items

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

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

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.

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