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Container Reference (shelfmark) Photo 430

51. Photo 430/51

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/51
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Lawrie's views of India'. Photographer(s): Lawrie and Company, G.W.
Scope & Content:
Black diced full-leather album, 277x396mm, containing prints in window mounts with handwritten captions. The photographs are by the firm of G.W. Lawrie & Co, based in Naini Tal, and include architectural views of Delhi, Agra, Sikandra, Fatehpur Sikri, Kanpur, Lucknow and Varanasi.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
44 items

52. Photo 430/52

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/52
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Nepal Views, 1901.' Photographer(s): Herzog and Higgins
Scope & Content:
Green half-leather bound album measuring 365x497mm, some fading of album cloth (possibly due to damp), with title as above stamped in gold on front cover, together with photographers' credit reading, 'Herzog and Higgins. Mhow, C.I.' Bound at Education Society's Press, Byculla, Bombay. Prints are...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
30 items

53. Photo 430/53

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Tibet'. Photographer(s): White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Half-leather and green buckram album, measuring 373x460mm, stamped 'Tibet' in gilt on upper board and containing 89 mounted platinum prints with handwritten captions. The photographs were taken by White during three missions between 1902 and 1904, in which representatives of the Government of In...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902-1904
Extent:
89 items

54. Photo 430/54

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/54
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Sikhim. And Sikhim and Tibet Frontier. Vol. I.' Photographer(s): White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Black full-leather bound album measuring 331x472mm, title as above stamped in gold on front cover, together with photographer's signature reading, 'J. Claude White.' Prints are mounted to a page (recto only), with neat handwritten captions beneath. The album consists of landscape view of mountai...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902-1904
Extent:
31 items

55. Photo 430/55

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/55
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Sikhim. And Sikhim and Tibet Frontier. Vol. II.' Photographer(s): White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Black full-leather bound album measuring 336x470mm, title as above stamped in gold on front cover, together with photographer's signature reading, 'J. Claude White.' Prints are mounted to a page (recto only), with neat handwritten captions beneath. The album consists of landscape view of mountai...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902
Extent:
30 items

56. Photo 430/56

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/56
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Gartok Expedition'. Photographer(s): Rawling, Cecil Godfrey
Scope & Content:
Maroon half-leather bound album measuring 185x245mm, with title as above stamped on front cover, and inscribed on verso of front free endpaper, 'Presented to His Excellency Lord Curzon. By Captain C.G. Rawling Somersetshire Light Infantry.' The album contains prints inserted one to a page in win...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904-1905
Extent:
48 items

57. Photo 430/57

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/57
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Camp of the British Tibet Frontier Commission at Khambajong, Tibet'. Photographer(s): White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Maroon full-leather folder, 250x363mm, containing a loose eight-part panorama. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover. The photograph was taken during the Younghusband Mission of 1903 when the British forces set up a camp at Khamba Dzong, or Gamba, in an unsuccessful attempt to enforce ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul1903
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 430/58

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/58
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'The Curzon Bridge over the River Ganges at Allahabad. Allahabad-Fyzabad Railway'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Maroon half-leather album, 307x425mm, containg mounted, dated prints, with handwritten captions. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover and the front free endpaper has the following note: 'The Curzon Bridge over the River Ganges at Allahabad. 15 spans of 200 feet. Started 8th November 1...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902-1905
Extent:
88 items

59. Photo 430/59

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/59
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta.' Photographer(s): Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Album covered in decorative cloth, measuring 288x428mm, with illuminated title-page reading in full 'Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Calcutta presented by Maharaj-Kumar Sir Prodyot Coomar Tagore to the Right Hon'ble Baron Curzon of Kedleston G.C.S.I. etc. etc. with my warmest respect and gratitud...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jan1906
Extent:
12 items

60. Photo 430/60

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/60
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Kheddah Operations as witnessed by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales in the Kakankota Forests of Mysore. Feb. 1906.' Photographer(s): Barton Son and Company
Scope & Content:
Green full-leather bound album measuring 313x400mm, with title as above stamped in gold with elephant design, on front cover. The album has a letterpress titlepage, with the additional credit reading 'Photographs taken by the command of His Highness the Maharajah of Mysore, by Messrs. Barton, So...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
February1906
Extent:
31 items