Photographic Views [of India]. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd, Johnston and Henderson, William Henry Baker, Samuel Bourne, F. W. Baker, Edmund David Lyon, James Craddock, J. H. Clarke, Robinson and Cherrill and others.
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Oblong folio photograph album, measuring 340 x 505 mm, half-leather binding, with red leather label panel, stamped Photographic Views in gilt, on upper board; bookplate of 'Mr James Wilson, J.P. (of Calcutta.) Rutland Park, Sheffield,' laid down on front fixed endpaper (see biographical note bel...
The harbour of Bombay. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
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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.
Street in Bombay. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along a street in the Fort district of Bombay, with bystanders on the pavement and in the roadway looking towards the photographer. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Bourne and Shepherd.
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the bank of the Godavari, looking across the river towards godowns on the far side, with local sailing barges moored in the foreground.
Wasseruts from railway station. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the thatched huts of the village street, with carts in the foreground and mountains on the skyline in the distance. Precise location unidentified.