Calcutta. View on the harbour. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking northwards along Strand Road, with figures, carts and cows in the roadway in the left foreground and the masts of sailing ships moored in the River Hugli beyond.
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the thoroughfare at the southern end of Strand Road below Fort William, towards the north and east façades of Prinsep's Ghat, a pavilion on the riverside, built in European style with an ionic colonnade, to commemorate the scientist, scholar...
A Bombay cotton merchant and his associates. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of cotton brokers and workers, posed in front of large bales of cotton. For a similar view, but with different figures posed in front of the same bales of cotton, see Vidya Dehejia (ed), 'India through the Lens. Photography 1840-1911' (...
Cashmir. Srinuggur[Srinagar] from the Tukht [Takht-i-Sulaiman] hill. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 818' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography Bourne no. 818. View from Shankaracharya Hill, with houses in the foreground, looking in a north-westerly direction towards Hariparbat hill in the distance.
Cashmir. On the Dhul Canal in Srinuggur. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 798' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the tree-lined Dal Canal at Srinagar, towards the temple at the summit of Shankaracharya hill in the distance.
Cashmir. View on the Dhul Canal [Srinagar]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 825' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the tree-lined Dal Canal at Srinagar, with an Indian figure seated on the bank in the left foreground.
Calcutta. Government Place, S.W. [sic, for South-East]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from near the east gateway of Government, looking southwards along Government Place East, towards the Maidan, with shops lining the street on the left, including Cuthbertson and Harper, Allan and Hayes (jewellers) and Harman and Co. In the right foreg...