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Name Johnson and Henderson Digitised Content No Material Type Photographs

1. Photo 140

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 140
Title:
'Views of Western India'. Photographers: George Robert Ballingall, Johnson and Henderson, Henry Hinton, Arthur A. Jacob, Allan Newton Scott, David Harold Day Sykes.
Scope & Content:
Green quarter-leather album, 365 x 348 mm, containing mounted prints with letterpress descriptions on reverse. The album title is stamped in gold on the spine. The prints were variously published between 1856-58 in Johnson and Henderson's Indian Amateur's Photographic Album and in 1872 in D. H. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s-c 1872
Extent:
49 items

2. Photo 150

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150
Title:
Compton Collection: Scrap album of Louisa Compton. Photographer(s): Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Red and gold leather bound album with decorative cover (front cover detached), measuring 296x239mm and containing photographs, engravings, watercolour sketches and pressed flowers. Non-photographic material relating to India has been catalogued in Mildred Archer, British Drawings in the India Of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
49 items

3. Photo 150(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(17)
Title:
[The Brahmachari Bawa, Vishnu Bhiku, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of two men. This photograph also appears as no. 17 in 'The Indian Amateur's Photographic Album' (1856-58) as part of the 'Costumes and Characters of Western India' series, with the following letterpress description: 'Vishnu Bhiku, well known o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 150(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(18)
Title:
[Brahmani women, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of two Brahmin women posed on the steps of a house. Duplicate at Photo 140 (49), where the print is used in an issue of The Indian amateur's photographic album. This print is also used in William Johnson's The Oriental Races and Tribes. Res...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 150(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(20)
Title:
[Studio portrait of a Parsi woman and child, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of mother and child. The woman in this photograph appears as a member of a group of Parsi women in William Johnson's The Oriental Races and Tribes: residents and visitors of Bombay (2 vols, 1863-6), vol. I, no. 21. The same woman, posed in ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 150(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 150(21)
Title:
[Knife grinder, Bombay.] Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Showing the knife grinder at work. This print has been trimmed to exclude the boy driving the grinding wheel (his feet are visible at the right of the print). For a reproduction of the whole image, see John Falconer, Ethnographical Photography in India 1850-1900 ('The Photographic Collector', vo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 254/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 254/3
Title:
Vibart Collection: Views in South India. Photographer(s): Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Loose prints mounted on modern acid-free card and inserted in Secol sleeves. The original captions are mounted below each print. The prints can be broken down into the following broad subject groups: Prints 1-43 Views in Bombay, Elephanta, the Bhore Ghat Railway Incline and others parts of ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s-1870s
Extent:
119 items

8. Photo 620(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 620(1)
Title:
View of St Thomas' Cathedral and Bombay Green from the Town Hall, Bombay. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the Green towards St Thomas' Cathedral. Duplicate at Photo 140 (2), there credited to Johnson & Henderson. A pencilled note beneath the print supplies a date of August 1858, and also reads 'From R.D. Peele Esqre.', but the photograph was prob...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1168/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(1)
Title:
The harbour of Bombay. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the Cotton Green towards sailing ships at anchor in the harbour. Print in very poor condition, faded and with numerous tears where it has been removed from the album page in the past.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1168/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(6)
Title:
Town Hall, Bombay. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking across Bombay Green towards the façade of the Town Hall (now the Asiatic Society buildings).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item