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1. Photo 61/1(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(40)
Title:
No. 40. Amerapoora [Amarapura]. Barracks of the Burmese Guard. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'L. Tripe' in ink, bottom right of print. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the front of the thatched huts running along the outer wall of the Residency, served as barracks for the Burmese guard of honour to the mission. The Irrawaddy is visible in the lef...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 247/2(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/2(11)
Title:
Enterior [sic] of Fort William, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the semaphore tower and a range of buildings inside Fort William, with a row of cannons in the foreground. With posed Indian figures and seated bullocks in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 247/2(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/2(15)
Title:
Amunition [sic] in Fort William, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
View of pyramids of stacked cannonballs inside Fort William, with one of the towers of St Peter's Church visible in the background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1000/31(3181)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/31(3181)
Title:
The Great Gun Malik-i-Maidan, Bijapur. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, with an Indian man standing beside the muzzle to indicate scale. India Museum no. 1423. Received from Captain Lyon, 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3181). 532. - There were formerly six gates to the ancient city, the Makkah being o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/42(4359)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4359)
Title:
Group of Hara Rajputs. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Group of five men posed at the base of a tree. Duplicate of plate 68(a) of Impey's Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, illustrated by eighty photographs (London, 1865): 'The Haras are the most important of the twenty-four branches of the Chohan tribe of Rajpoots, and are descended from Manikrae, King o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1865
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1000/42(4363)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4363)
Title:
Group of Purriar Meenas, robber tribe of Rajasthan. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Group of four men, posed in front of a thatched house, and armed with matchlocks, bows and other weapons. This print appears (in oval format) in vol. VII no. 341 of The People of India (8 vols., London, 1868-74), from which the caption is taken.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1865
Extent:
1 item

7. Talbot Photo 1(268)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(268)
Title:
Soldiers (52nd Light Infantry). Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Quality rating 'a'. Inscribed in ink on verso: '117. Soldiers (52nd Light Infantry)'. Genre: Portrait Photography Group photograph of four soldiers in front of a stone building, two are standing and two sit on a bench. Image size 86 x 106 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before 1847
Extent:
1 item

8. Talbot Photo 1(343)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(343)
Title:
[Captain Correy on board H. M. S. 'Superb,' Plymouth Harbour.] Photographer: Henneman, Nicolaas
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of Captain Correy R.N., standing beside a row of cannons on the deck of H. M. S. 'Superb'. Prints from this trimmed negative can be found at Talbot Photo 2 (359-363) and Talbot Photo 16 (4).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sept 1845
Extent:
1 item

9. Talbot Photo 1(346)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(346)
Title:
[Captain Correy on board H. M. S. 'Superb,' Plymouth Harbour.] Photographer: Henneman, Nicolaas
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of Captain Correy R.N., standing beside a row of cannons on the deck of H. M. S. 'Superb'. Small section of the negative is missing from where it was possibly adhered to an album page. This is a variant of Talbot Photo 1 (343). Trimmed negative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sept 1845
Extent:
1 item

10. Talbot Photo 1(347)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(347)
Title:
[Sailor boy by cannons of H.M.S. Superb, Plymouth Harbour.] Photographer: Henneman, Nicolaas
Scope & Content:
A young sailor boy leans against the side of the ship in between two cannons. Trimmed negative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sept 1845
Extent:
1 item