Bhootia man and woman. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Stereo pair, mounted on card. Portrait of a Bhutia couple by the roadside, the woman posed in the act of pouring from a metal jug.
H. C. Hodgson. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length carte de visite portrait, standing with rifle against a rocky background. Hodgson was possibly a survey companion of Thomas Wingfield Webber, compiler and principal photographer of the album in which this portrait appears.
View in Cashmere [Dal Canal, Srinagar]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 827' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View along the tree-lined Dal Canal. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as, 'Srinuggur; foliage on the Dhul Canal.'
Genre: Portrait Photography View of tree in lightly wooded ground. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'A beautiful small tree, Central Provinces.'
[Indian Forest Trees No. 22.] Cordia mixa, 'sword tree.' Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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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.'
A forest elephant, 'Mulunga' Hathee. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Side view of the seated elephant, with the photographer's wife Matilda (identified), seated on its back. The mahout is identified as Khoda Bux and the young man standing in profile on the right as 'Conta Pershad Chuprassee.' With additional note on album page beneath...