Frith's Series blindstamp. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Full-length standing studio portrait of a young woman, a water pipe standing beside her.
Scinde Valley. Gugangur [Gagangair]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Signed Bourne in the negative (slightly cropped). Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. View looking along the valley towards mountain crags, with stone houses in the foreground. Unnumbered, but probably the print listed as no. 886 in the Bourne...
Ruins of Martund [the Surya Temple]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Signed and numbered Bourne 782 in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Ruins of Martund, from S.E.'
Interior of Joss House [Canton]. Photographer: Lai Afong
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Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th February, 1879. With contemporary descriptive letterpress label: 'No. 50-Mars, Boreas, &c. The truculent fellow on the one side is the God of war; on the other we have the God of wind. These figures must not be taken as r...
Canton. Interior [of a] Flower Boat. Photographer: Lai Afong
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Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th Februrary, 1879. With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'This represents the saloon of one of these boats, they are magnificiently fitted up in marble. The small room at the back is where the Chinese smoke opium. For a...
Batavia [Jakarta].Chinese Camp. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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'This photograph was taken from the bridge which connects what is now Jalan Asemka to Jalan Pintu Kecil and is looking in a southerly direction. Around the bend in the river on the left are the Toko Tiga and Pancoran areas. On the left-hand side, where houses stand on the edge of the river, the ...
Java. Rhaden [Raden] Saleh (Native Prince). Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Full-length studio portrait of the Javanese artist Raden Saleh, seated on a chair carved in gothic style, his right arm resting on a table and holding an open book. He wears a richly decorated jacket and turban. Photograph unsigned, but attributed to Woodbury and Page.
General view of a village with thatched houses resting on bamboo platforms built on the water. Visited by the compiler of this album between 16 and 17th February, 1879.