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11. Photo 10/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/8
Title:
Reading Collection: The Lucknow Floods, 1923.
Scope & Content:
Red quarter leather bound album (modern library rebinding) measuring 280x400mm, with prints mounted on pages with letterpress captions and subject headings. The album was originally bound in black leather and the front cover is mounted on the front fixed endpaper of the new binding. The old cove...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
36 items

12. Photo 10/13

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/13
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Dhar and Mandu. Souvenir'.
Scope & Content:
Full-leather album, 373x500mm, containing mounted prints interleaved with tissue. Each sheet of tissue has a caption which refers to the relevant prints as well as the label: 'Vernon & Co., Photographers & Publishers, Bombay'. The title is stamped in gold on the cover along with the Dha...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
Unspecified

13. Photo 10/14

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/14
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Dhar and Mandu. Souvenir'.
Scope & Content:
Half-leather album, 375x495mm, containing mounted prints interleaved with tissue. Each sheet of tissue has a caption which refers to the relevant prints as well as the label: 'Vernon & Co., Photographers & Publishers, Bombay'. The title is stamped in gold on the cover along with the Dha...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
89 items

14. Photo 10/15

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/15
Title:
Reading Collection: Viceregal Tour of Burma.
Scope & Content:
Maroon half leather bound album (spine weak) measuring 275x375mm, with larger prints mounted singly on the page, the smaller snapshots mounted four to a page. Prints are uncaptioned and the album contains no dedicatory inscriptions. Photographer's label affixed to rear endpaper reads 'D.A. Ahuja...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1923-1924
Extent:
110 items

15. Photo 10/16

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/16
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Investiture Bahawalpur, Presentation Album'.
Scope & Content:
Red half-leather bound album measuring 315x425mm, with prints mounted one to a page on the recto of each sheet, captioned in a neat hand beneath each photograph. Title as above written in decorative script on first page of album, above the following dedication: 'With best wishes from Sadiq Mhd A...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1924
Extent:
30 items

16. Photo 10/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/4
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Gwalior 1923'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Red, quarter-leather album, 197x250mm, containing 20 mounted snapshot prints with lithographed captions. The album was rebound at the India Office Library in 1969. The title is stamped in gold on the spine and a label on the inside front cover reads: Presented to the India Office Library by Lady...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
20 items

17. Photo 10/17

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/17
Title:
Reading Collection: Mount Everest Expedition. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Loose photogravure prints (overall size of sheets 292x377mm) with neatly pencilled captions beneath each image. The photographs are printed variously in brown and black inks. The collection consists of group photographs of expedition members, climbing scenes and mountain views. Process = Photo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1924
Extent:
11 items

18. Photo 10/19

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/19
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Royal visit, Delhi 1922'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-leather album, 548x435mm, containing photographs, programmes, addresses of welcome, newspaper cuttings, invitations, menus and other ephemera. The prints have handwritten captions and the album title is stamped in gold on the spine. The album principally records the Prince of Wales' visit t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922
Extent:
1 album

19. Photo 10/12

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/12
Title:
Reading Collection: Views of Udaipur. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Red full leather bound album with padded cover (spine weak, binding split along one edge) measuring 270 x 380 mm, with prints mounted one to a page with letterpress caption pasted beneath prints. The album was presumably acquired by or presented to Lord Reading during his period as Viceroy, alth...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910s
Extent:
42 items

20. Photo 10/20

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/20
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Prince of Wales' visit to Delhi'.
Scope & Content:
Green cloth-bound album, 258x195mm, containing uncaptioned prints in window mounts. The album is untitled, the front cover having the manufacturer's gold-stamped sun motif and the word: 'Photographs'. A typed list inside provides headings for the various sets of prints. The album relates to the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1922
Extent:
1 item

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