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Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.10(25)
Title:: Unmarried women and girl of Spiti. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of three women, gathered round pots.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.10(26)
Title:: Married women of Spiti. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: 'Peasant women and water pail.' Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of two women, posed in front of a wall. The figure on the left is positioned with her back to the camera, to illustrate the manner of carrying the wooden water bucket.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.10(34)
Title:: The Nono, wife, and grandaughter [sic] [at Kuling]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of the group: 'On the 25th [of August] we marched to Kuling, the Nono's residence...When the sun had set behind the mountains, I asked the Nono to sit for his portrait, with his wife and unmarried daughter, and got the annexed picture......
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 26 Aug 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.10(35)
Title:: The Nono, wife, and daughter. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length of the group, the Nono standing centre, his wife and daughter squatting on either side. See note at print 34.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(40)
Title:: A Sharpshooter's last sleep. Gettysburg, July, 1863. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography Study of the corpse of a sniper, his rifle lying on the ground beside him: 'A burial party, searching for dead on the borders of the Gettysburg battle-field, found, in a secluded spot, a sharpshooter lying as he fell when struck by the bullet. His cap and gun were evident...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(41)
Title:: Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter. Gettysburg, July, 1863. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography Study of the a rebel sniper, lying dead among the rocks at Gettysburg, his rifle leaning against the stone wall beyond: 'From Culp's Hill, on our right, to the forests that stretched away from Round Top, on the left, the fields were thickly strewn with Confederate dead an...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(57)
Title:: Camp architecture. January, 1864. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography Group portrait of two officers and their wives seated in front of the brick and canvas accommodation: 'The ingenuity and taste of the American soldier is strikingly illustrated in the variety of architecture with which he adorns his summer quarters … Sometimes a framework...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jan 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(93)
Title:: Ruins of Gaines' Mill, Va. April, 1865. Photographer: Reekie, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View of the ruins of the brick-built mill, with a skeleton lying half-buried in the grass in the foreground. Situated about 10 miles north-east of Richmond near Old Cold Harbor, the Battle of Gaines's Mill (one of the Seven Days Battles) was a Confederate victory: 'Gaines...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Apr 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 2(94)
Title:: A burial party, Cold Harbor, Va., April, 1865. Photographer: Reekie, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography Showing a black soldier posed beside a barrow, on which are piled the skulls, rotting clothes and other remains of Union soldiers who had died at Cold Harbour in 1862. In the background, out of focus, a party of soldiers digs up the remains of the fallen: 'This sad scene ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Apr 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.20(1)
Title:: Les petits bohémiens. Photographer: Rousset, Ildefonse
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of four children, posed in front of a wooden-walled house or hut.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1866
Extent:: 1 item

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