Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Stereo pair, mounted on card. Showing a woman seated in a dandy carried by four Indian bearers, with European men walking beside her.
Bhootia [sic, for Lepcha] woman. Photographer: Simpson, Benjamin
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders half-profile portrait of a young Lepcha woman of Sikkim. This portrait also appears in John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye, 'The People of India' (London, 8 vols., 1868-75), vol. 1, plate 48, there identified as a L...
Peepul tree, Hoshungabad. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Landscape Photography Another study, in smaller format, of what appears to be the same tree seen in print 4. In this view a thatched hut can be seen in the background.
The Forest Office at Puchmari [Pachmarhi]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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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...
Chota Haziri [ie breakfast]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Stereo pair, mounted on card. Study of two European men in local dress seated on a verandah with a table bearing food between them, attended by two Indian servants.