Subject: Arms and Armaments / Level: [41] Item - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Neg 1112/7(1043)
Title:: De Wang. Mongolian officer shooting. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Showing a Mongolian drawing his bow at De Wang's sports day, with spectators in the background. Duplicate film negative only, no print.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Neg 1112/7(1062)
Title:: De Wang. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait of De Wang, holding a bow. Duplicate safety film negative only, no print. XXX
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 2/4(107)
Title:: The Great Gun at Bhilsa [Vidisha]. Photographer: Dayal, Deen
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Din Dyal 411' in the negative. Close view of the massive cannon, lying on a rough masonry platform in front of a house.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1882
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 28/2(21)
Title:: Armed knights in the service of the Rajah of Sumptna [Samthar?]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated portrait of four military officers, wearing armour and holding swords. The state name given in the caption cannot be readily located although a suggested version is Samthar in Central India.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 28/2(28)
Title:: Natives of the Peshawur Valley. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Numbered '1388' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of Afridi men, seated and standing in front of a mud house, several armed with jezails and shields. No.1388 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue and there described as, 'Group of Natives fr...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 28/2(29)
Title:: Afredees of the Khyber Pass. Photographer: Shepherd, Charles
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Shepherd 1387' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Posed group of four Afridi men armed with jezails, sheltering behind a mud wall, one aiming his gun at a distant target.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 28/2(31)
Title:: Rajpoots [at Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Shepherd & Robertson 1120' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of four Rajput men, armed with muskets and swords. No.1120 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue. This study is also reproduced in volume 4 of Watson and Kaye, ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1862
Extent:: 1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 146/1(300)
Title:: Angediva Island, The North Canara Coast. Part of the Grande Battery. The gun carriages have long since rotten away. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:: Angediva for 150 years or so kept in full commission. It was, too, and intermediate rendezvous for the Portuguese royal navy, especially so for their frigates engaged in suppressing piracy. The English corsairs English and Taylor, in company, in 1720 passed between the island and the main, they ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1930-1939
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 146/1(301)
Title:: Angediva Island, The North Canara Coast. Another battery commanding the channel and approach to the only landing place. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:: Angediva for 150 years or so kept in full commission. It was, too, and intermediate rendezvous for the Portuguese royal navy, especially so for their frigates engaged in suppressing piracy. The English corsairs English and Taylor, in company, in 1720 passed between the island and the main, they ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1930-1939
Extent:: 1 item

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