Inkstand [with open lid] presented to John Stuart Mill on his leaving the EI [East India] House. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Inscription reads: 'Presented to John Stuart Mill on his retirement from the office, Examiner of Indian Correspondence. In token of high admiration and esteem and warm personal regard, by his associates in that department of the East India House, September 1858'. Subj...
[A photograph of a page of the Quran.] Photographer: Mirza and Sons, H.A.
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Genre: Historical Events A (partially obscured) letterpress description with the print reads: '[...A photograph of a page of the Quran, in the ancient Arabic script as first caligraphed by Usman, the third Caliph after Muhammad.] One sheet. Published by H.A. Mirza and Sons, Photographers, Delhi...