Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along road towards gateway, probably the entrance to the palace, with crowds lining the street. A photograph probably taken by Haward during the Survey of India visit to Dumraon to photograph the eclipse of the sun in January 1898. Original negative and...
Raja (native king) & staff, India [Portrait of Afghan ruler and suite]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Group portrait of unidentified Afghan dignitaries, seated with a British army officer to the left. Location and occasion unidentified. Subjects = Afghan rulers; durbars; official events; unidentified
[Group portrait, possibly of the staff of Balmer Lawrie.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Formally posed portrait of a large mixed European and Indian group. The pencilled caption on the back of the mount suggesting that this shows Balmer Lawrie staff appears to be a modern addition. Subjects =
[View of the Negative Section of the Survey of India Photographic Department, Calcutta.] Photographer: Unknown
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Showing interior of Survey of India studio, with operators posed beside massive copying cameras. Pencilled note on the reverse reads, 'Photo taken in Decr 1907 after major Hedley appointed men by selection as heads of the different sections. You see me [Murphy] here as Head Asstt. Negative Secti...
[Examining Room in the Duffing Section of the Photographic Department of the Survey of India, Calcutta.] Photographer: Unknown
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Men at work checking large glass negatives for faults. Pencilled note by Murphy dated 25 May 1911 on the reverse of the print reads: 'Duffing Section. Examining Room. Every negative that is corrected or duffed for colours is carefully examined against the corrected proof & colour patterns be...