Rajbinde, or noble of Raja's clan. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of a child of about ten years of age. This portrait is also used in Watson and Kaye's 'The People of India' (vol. 8, 1875): see Photo 972/8 (408). [Albumen print, 79x114mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; castes; Raja Bindas
Captain F. Cunningham [Secretary of the Mysore Commission]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait, against a painted backdrop of a rustic scene, of Captain (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Francis Cunningham (1820-1875), 23rd Madras Light Infantry 1838-61. This appears to be a copy photograph. Bowring writes: 'During many years, the secret...
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated carte-de-visite portrait, against a painted backdrop of a European bookcase. '...because there is an almost entire absence of native aristocracy in the province, the only persons who can be classed in this order being the Jageerdar of Yela...
Genre: Portrait Photography Head and shoulders profile portrait. Small oval miniature on ivory. Subjects = Bowring Collection; miniature paintings; non-photographic material; paintings and drawings; Sikhs
Houses on canal, Srinagar. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 814' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along the Marqual Canal at Srinagar, with Kashmiri houses overlooking the water.