P. & O. Steam Ship Deccan 3128 tons 550 h.p. Ship on which we sailed from Southampton to Bombay. [September 27th–October 24th 1877]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Photographic copy of a painting of the ship Deccan, a port beam view showing her under sail and steam.
Entrée du Canal de Suez, Port Said. Photographer: Arnoux, Hippolyte
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '2' and titled in French as above in the negative. View from the lighthouse at Port Said, looking down onto shipping at anchor, with the entrance to the Suez Canal in the background. Print unsigned, but attributed to Arnoux.
Hackerry [bullock carriage], Bombay. Photographer: Frith's Series
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Inscription: Numbered and titled 3009. Bullock Hackerry. Bombay in the negative; Frith's Series blindstamp. Side view of a two-wheeled carriage, drawn by two bullocks, with two Parsee passengers and driver.
Railway over the [Western] Ghats. G. I. P. R. Reversing Station [Bhor Ghat Incline]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
View looking along the line at the reversing station on the Bhor Ghat Incline, with an Indian figure posed in the foreground (back to camera). In the left background is the sheer rock outcrop known as The Duke's Nose.
Ceylon. Colombo [sic, for Galle] Harbour [visited November 27th-30th and December 10th-13th 1877]. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:
View across the harbour at Galle, with shipping at anchor in the bay. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Skeen and Co.