Village life in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1732 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View from the road of a village, with figures seated among the huts and a bullock cart in the foreground.
Emperor's carriage - Salo [State carriage Kiai Garuda Kencana of the Susuhunan of Surakarta.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Side view of the European-style carriage, drawen by eight horses, with a military guard posed for the photographer. Caption in square brackets taken from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), where this photograph is reproduced on p. 123.
[Village scene with buffalo carts, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '38' in pencil on mount. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a village street, lined with thatched houses, with a group of carts drawn by water buffalo posed in the foreground. The carts are of rattan construction in the form of small houses. Precise location ...
