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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1228 Subject Tents Level [40] File

1. Photo 1228(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(24)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 15. Terminalia tomentosa. Saj tree. Boree [Bori] Forest. My camp. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of of a saj tree in a forest clearing, with Webber's tent on the right. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'Called 'asan' in Bengal. A very common beautiful & very lofty tree with very straight stem usually found with sal which it strongly re...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1228(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(31)
Title:
[Forest Trees of India. No. 18.] Bassia longifolia [Madhuca longifolia], hurrur. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the tree, growing in lightly wooded ground, with one of the tents of Webber's camp on the left. With an additional note written on the album page beneath the print: 'A useful dark grained timber. Its seeds afford a useful oil.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1228(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(33)
Title:
[Forest Trees of India. No. 21.] Bassia latifolia [Madhuca longifolia], mahua tree. Forest Officer's camp, Puchmari, Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Camp scene, with tents in a clearing, one tent pitched at the base of a mahua tree. A European man (probably Webber: compare print 57) sits reading in front of the tent on the left. The mahua is characterised in a note as 'a splendid handsome & shady tree.' With...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1228(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(42)
Title:
At Puchmari [Pachmarhi], forest tent. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Tent with doolie or palanquin in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1228(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(45)
Title:
The Forest Office at Puchmari [Pachmarhi]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of forestry officers posed in front of a tent. The senior figure at a folding desk with papers, is identified as 'Peddi Naido Baboo.' Beside him stands a man identified as 'Ameen Oodeen,' with 'Kunta Pershad' seated on the ground writing. Other figures...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

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