Dai Angan's Tomb, Lahore. Photographer: [?] Henry Hardy Cole.
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General view, a larger format and probably taken at an earlier date than prints 950-951. Photograph attributed to Cole in Theodor Bloch, A list of the photographic negatives ... in the collection of The Indian Museum... (Calcutta: 1900), but probably commissioned rather than taken by him.
Buddhist sculptures from the Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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Large collection of miscellaneous pieces, including small stupas, 'chapels' or niches, friezes, pillar capitals, etc., photographed on site. Sculptures 'now in the Indian Museum' (Bloch).
Portrait of a Swiri man and boy, an aboriginal tribe of Bihar, photographed at Baijnath. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man and boy in a field. This photograph is reproduced as a lithograph in Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Central provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82' (A.S.I. vol. XVII, Calcutta, 1884), pl. xxxiii. The taking of this and the following ph...
Portrait of a Swiri man and boy, an aboriginal tribe of Bihar, photographed at Baijnath. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = agriculture; Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); crops; ethnic groups; opium poppies; Swiris Location = Baijnath; Bihar; India
Close view of relief carving of man and horse at excavation site of Buddhist stupa at Garikapad. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the sculpture also seen in print 2281. Subjects = archaeological excavations; archaeological sites; Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); archaeology; Indian architecture; I...
Group of terracotta figures from Bodh Gaya. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
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Genre: Architectural Photography A very dark print, group of terracotta images of Hindu deities and Buddha images. The top right-hand piece is reproduced in Alexander Cunningham, 'Mahabodhi or the Great Buddhist Temple under the Bodhi Tree at Buddha-Gaya' (London, 1892), pl. xxiv (b). Credited ...
Statue of Buddha at Kauwa Dol Hill. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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'...The most prominent one is of Buddha, 7 feet in height, and 7½ feet broad, and which is now worshipped as Bhim Sen. The face is 16 inches broad...' (Cunningham and Garrick, op. cit., p.48). Photograph probably taken in the 1870s: Cunningham, writing after his 1880 visit, states that '...Mr Be...