Miscellaneous lantern slides of India. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection of lantern slides stored in a black purpose-built box, covering a range of subjects, including: village schools, bird seller, modes of transport, work party run by Mrs Westropp (sewing group), tailor birds nests, road makers, temples, farming, river scenes, ascetics, potters, Girl Gui...
Miscellaneous lantern slides of India. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Collection of lantern slides stored in a black purpose-built box, covering a range of subjects, including: rural life scenes, portraits, bungalows, children, road transport, villages, temples and dancers. The locations include Port Said and Aden, various villages in the Madras Presidency includi...
Six copy prints from lantern slides. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Six copy prints including hill porters, tikka ghari, woman on a railway trolley, district officer's camp, ferry crossing and camel train; copied from lantern slides in Photo 555/1.
Mother pushed in railway trolley. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a woman sitting under a parasol on a railway trolley. This photograph is published on p.31 of M. Satow & R. Desmond's Railways of the Raj, where the woman is identified as Mrs Helen Westropp, wife of a Bombay Civil Servant. Subjects = railway rollin...