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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 964/1 Material Type Photographs

1. Photo 964/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1
Title:
William Johnson, 'The Oriental Races and Tribes, Residents and Visitors of Bombay. A Series of Photographs, with Letter-press Descriptions. Vol. I.—Gujarat, Kutch, and Kathiawar.' (London: W. J. Johnson, 83 and 121 Fleet Street; and Bolton and Barnitt, 146, Holborn Bars. 1863). Photographer(s): William Johnson
Scope & Content:
Full red leather bound volume measuring 447 mm x 330 mm, with title and portrait of a seated Indian figure stamped in gilt on upper board, and elephant on rear board, and with additonal blind stamped decorations. Inscribed Received from Registrar May 28 1866 on front fixed endpaper. Binding repa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1856-1860
Extent:
26 items

2. Photo 964/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(1)
Title:
Owdich Brahmins [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Brahmins (caste); ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); photomontage
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 964/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(2)
Title:
Nagur Brahmins [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of eight seated and standing figures, with a montaged background of an archway revealing a distant seascape. 'The Nagur Brahmins form a numerous and influential class both in Goozerat and in Bombay, and occupy positions of trust and responsibility in merc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 964/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(3)
Title:
Nagar Brahman Women [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Brahmins (caste); ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); photomontage; women
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 964/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(4)
Title:
Vallabhacharya Maharajas [Bombay]. Photographer: Dajee, Narayan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait. See Karsandas Mulji, 'History of the sect of Maharajas, or Vallabhacharyas, in Western India' (London, 1865), where this group portrait is reproduced as a steel engraved frontispiece. Subjects = ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 964/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(5)
Title:
Rajpoots [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of four men standing in front of a background of columns painted onto the negative. 'Bombay was visited last year by two of the Rajpoot chiefs of Goozerat, who, with their attendant nobelemen, form the subject of our picture.' Subjects = ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 964/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(6)
Title:
Bhats [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of two men. The background, in the form of a rocky landscape with the ruins of a fort wall, has been painted onto the negative. Subjects = Bhats (ethnic group); ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 964/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(7)
Title:
Khuwas and Golas [Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of five men, posed in front of a partially completed landscape background painted onto the negative. 'Slavery - though not now a recognised insitution in India - has left traces over many parts of the country of its existence at no very distant period. Th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 964/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(8)
Title:
Banians of Surat, Gogo, and Ahmedabad [at Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of five seated and standing figures, with a photomontaged background showing the north-eastern corner of the Banganga Tank and the Balaji and Siddheshwar Temples. 'We have here four pictures, in which Banians, as they are usually called, or Waneeas, as th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 964/1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 964/1(9)
Title:
Banians of Porebunder [at Bombay]. Photographer: Johnson, William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Banians; ethnic groups; Johnson, 'The oriental races and tribes...' (vol 1, 1863); photomontage
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 item

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