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1. Photo 640

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640
Title:
Views of Darjeeling and Railway
Scope & Content:
Half-leather bound album (spine piece detached and boards loose), measuring 270x395mm, with loose dust jacket made from brown paper on which the title as above is handwritten. The prints, which are captioned in the negative, are mounted singly on the recto of each leaf. The photographs show view...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s-c 1880
Extent:
30 items

2. Photo 640(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(1)
Title:
Teesta Bridge, Darjeeling. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = bridges; river scenes Location = Darjeeling; Darjiling; India; Tista (river); West Bengal
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 640(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(2)
Title:
[Selim Tea Estate, Darjeeling, the new factory, lower division.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the new factory buildings, with tea bushes in the foreground. Caption taken from the Bourne & Shepherd catalogue. Subjects = industrial buildings; Selim Tea Estate; tea factories
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 640(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(3)
Title:
Terai Tea Estate, Darjeeling. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = tea plantations; Terai Tea Estate
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 640(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(4)
Title:
The Selim Tea Estate, Darjeeling. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the hillside towards the manager's bungalow. The land is planted out with young bushes, interspersed with dead trees and stumps. Subjects = Selim Tea Estate; tea plantations
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 640(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(5)
Title:
The Selim Tea Estate, Darjeeling [showing the lower, or Terai portion, of the estate]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of land planted out with tea. Portion of caption in square brackets taken from Bourne & Shepherd catalogue. Subjects = Selim Tea Estate; tea plantations
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 640(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(6)
Title:
On Darjeeling Railway. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = Darjeeling Hill Railway; railway companies; railway rolling stock; railway trolleys; railways; transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 640(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(7)
Title:
On Darjeeling Railway. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a loop on the line, with a trolley on the lower level, and a passenger train crossing the wooden trestle bridge on the upper part of the loop. Subjects = Darjeeling Hill Railway; railway companies; railway rolling stock; railway trolleys; railways; trains;...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 640(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(8)
Title:
On Darjeeling Railway [loop under construction]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Showing construction work on the line at one of the loops on the Darjeeling Hill Railway. Possibly the first loop, south of Rangtong. Subjects = Darjeeling Hill Railway; railway building; railway companies; railways; transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 640(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 640(9)
Title:
Choubutti [Chunbhati] Double Loop, Darjeeling Ry. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down on the newly-built loop on the line of the Darjeeling Hill Railway at Chunbhati. Construction has evidently only just finished, or is possibly still under way, since labourers' houses are still in position in the centre of the loop. Subjects = Da...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item