[Pillared hall to the south of the Vishnupada temple at Gaya.] Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate of India Office Series, Photo 1000/28(2743). This is 'No 3' in Peppé's list of descriptions which was forwarded with the prints to the Government of India. See Letter No 98, Public Dept., April 1871 (copy kept in Prints, Drawings & Photographs sect...
Colossal Buddha at back of Kowadol peak, Barabar Hills, Gaya District. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Photograph of a colossal Buddha figure in the Barabar Hills, Bihar, taken by Thomas Fraser Peppé in 1870. Peppé wrote, 'On the east side of the hill there must have been a large temple, some few pillars of which are still standing, and a gigantic figure of the ascetic Boodh, measuring 8 feet hig...
[Interior of the remains of the] Barah Durwazah [or Golden Mosque], Gaur. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography A European couple and a group of Indians are posed against the far wall. Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); mosques; Temple Collection
Huts & natives at Little Andaman [with M.V. Portman]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of Andaman Islanders, posed in front of a thatched hut, with Maurice Vidal Portman standing in the centre. Portman (1860-1935) served in the Andamans from 1879-99, first as officer in charge of Andaman Homes, then as a superintendent. He was the ...
[Unloading an elephant, (?)Port Blair, Andaman Islands.] Photographer: Unknown
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Showing an elephant in a sling emerging from the hold of a steamer. See also print 75, which may show the same operation. Subjects = animals; elephants; Temple Collection
Cellular Jail [Atalanta Point, Port Blair, Andaman Islands]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Panoramic view of the radial arms of the Cellular Jail. Subjects = crime and criminals; panoramas; prisons; punishments; Temple Collection
[View of the south gate to Lalbagh Fort, Dhaka.] Photographer: Unknown
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Photograph of the South Gate to the Lal Bagh Fort in Dhaka, now the capital of Bangladesh taken in the 1870s by an unknown photographer. Note from E. Haq (1993): 'This photograph taken in 1870s shows the south gate to the Lalbagh Fort (Fort Aurangabad) at Dhaka, Bangladesh. At the extreme left i...
Pagoda at Pagan with model of the Mahabodhi. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Printed version from the slides used by Temple to illustrate a lecture on 'Developments in Buddhist Architecture'. See the list Titles of Slides accompanying this collection. Note on the mount reads: 'Intermediate chaitya - [h]ti on top of the sikra'. Subjects...