Archive Reference (shelfmark): Photo 127 / Name: Sher Ali, fl 1872 / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 127(96)
Title:: Sher Ali (assassin of Lord Mayo) Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated carte-de-visite portrait of Sher Ali, handcuffed. A convict in the Andaman Islands penal settlement, he stabbed and killed Lord Mayo during the Viceroy's official visit to Port Blair in February 1872. Location of phorograph unknown, possibly in the...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 127(97)
Title:: A Bombay [?]Brenin shop. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:: Carte-de-visite study of a shop, with a customer and shopkeeper completing a sale. Subjects = occupations; shopkeepers; shops
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 127(99)
Title:: [Sher Ali,] Assassin of Lord Mayo. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated oval carte-de-visite portrait of Sher Ali, handcuffed. Half-profile, looking off to right. Subjects = crime and criminals
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

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