[Japanese woman in traditional dress.] Photographer: Unknown
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Inscribed (signed?) in Japanese and numbered 480 in the negative. Half-length seated portrait, the sitter holding a pipe and posed as if in the act of gazing out of a window onto a street (the street scene is in fact a photograph double-printed onto this image).
Cabinet portrait of Charles James Lucas. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Full-length studio portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), taken in India during his round the world tour of 1877-79. He is here seen posed against a backdrop of a lake scene, in hunting dress, wearing a turban and leaning on a walking pole, a rifle slung on his back. For another portrait, ...
T. W. Webber Forest Surveyor NWP. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length carte de visite portrait, holding a rifle and standing against a rocky background. Thomas Wingfield Webber (1836-1914), the compiler and principal photographer of the album in which this portrait appears, came to India in 1860 and was originally employed ...