Ida Lewis at home [Newport]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of Ida Lewis sitting on the front step of her house. Ida Lewis (1842-1911) was for many years keeper of the Lime Rock Lighthouse (later named Ida Lewis Rock). Stereo half, arched top.
Jabalpoor, group of Thugs. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Group of seven thugs seated on a carpet. The print is unnumbered and unsigned, but almost certainly corresponds to no. 128 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, where the location is given as Simla rather than Jabalpur. Jabalpur in fact seems a more likely location for, as Bowring writes (pp. 16...
Shahjahan Begam Nawab of Bhopal, daughter of Sikandar. Photographer: Chintamon, Hurrichund
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated carte-de-visite portrait of Shah Jahan Begum (1838-1901), Begum of Bhopal 1868-1901. Although mounted on a card with Chintamon's stamp, this is a (presumably pirated) copy photograph of a Bourne and Shepherd portrait (see Photo 127 (47)). [Albumen...