Proclamation of Empress of India, Delhi, January 1877. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Historical Events General view of the assemblage, with crowds of spectators in the foreground. Contemporary notes on the mount beneath the print identify the amphitheatre for Europeans (at left), Lord Lytton's canopy (centre: the Viceroy can just be made out seated beneath the canopy), a...
[Lord Dufferin's durbar with the Amir of Afghanistan.] Departure [sic, for Arrival] of the Viceroy, Rawal Pindi, 1885. Photographer: Burke, John
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Inscription: Signed and numbered in the negative, 'Burke 1.' Genre: Historical Events View from an elevated position, looking down onto the railway station. A military guard of honour is positioned on the platform, where a train is drawn up, with crowds gathered round the station buildings. Th...
[Lord Dufferin's durbar with the Amir of Afghanistan.] The Viceroy, Amir and the Duke of Connaught, Rawal Pindi, 1885. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Group posed on the verandah of the building also seen in print 13, and taken on the same occasion, with a carriage in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 355/3 (29), where the figures are identified as follows (back row); Mr Durand, General Biddulph, Captain Talbot; (...