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

31. 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

32. Photo 1228(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(32)
Title:
[Forest Trees of India. No. 20]. Wild mango [and] 'Kahua,' Terminalia arjuna. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the two trees in a clearing, with a figure attending to camp duties in the middleground. With additional notes written on album page beneath the print: 'Mangifera indica. Well known 'mango' planted all over India for its fruit in groves and gardens. The wild...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

33. 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

34. Photo 1228(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(34)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees No. 22.] Cordia mixa, 'sword tree.' Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of tree, with additional note written on album page beneath print: 'A handsome foliaged small tree with light durable timber used in Egypt for mummy cases. Leaves used in Burmah for rolling cigars.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

35. Photo 1228(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(35)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 23.] In the Boree [Bori] Forest Reserve, Hoshungabad district. Bamboo jungle [and] Tectona grandis, 'teak.' Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a forest clearing, looking towards a teak tree, with bamboo in left foreground. With additional notes written on album page beneath print: 'Bambusa vulgaris, commonplace all over India. Teak is the most valuable timber in India but little of the old timber r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

36. Photo 1228(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(36)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 24.] Ficus or Urostigma religiosa. Peepul, the sacred tree, at Hoshungabad. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a peepul tree beside a stream or pool, probably taken, like print 25, in Webber's compound at Hoshangabad. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'This well known fig with beautiful heart shaped leaves and noble branching head doe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

37. Photo 1228(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(37)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 25.] Ficus or Urostigma indica. Banyan or bungadh tree. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a banyan tree in a forest clearing. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'Called by the natives 'bungadh.' This is the sacred bo tree. Its leaves are large & thicker than the peepul. Its air roots can be trained to take root...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

38. Photo 1228(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(38)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 25.] 'Pakur' tree, Urostigma or Ficus infectoria. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a ficus growing on lightly wooded hillside. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'This noble spreading fig tree is not as common as the peepul or banyan. It is quite as handsome as they are as an ornamental shade producing tree....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

39. Photo 1228(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(39)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 27.] 'Gooler,' Urostigma or Ficus racemosa, or Ficus glomerata, mango on right. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a stand of trees in light woodland, with cows and and an Indian figure. With additional note written on album page beneath the print: 'This is a fine fig tree & bears small eatible red figs, of which fish are fond. Its air roots are numerous.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

40. Photo 1228(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(40)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 28.] Phoenix sylvestris, the common palm, Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a stand of palm trees, with the roof of a tiled house visible in the background and an Indian figure seated on a rough wooden animal pen in the left foreground. With additional note written on album page beneath the print: 'The common date palm grows all ove...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item