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'The Town looking East from British Residency. 23. Feb. 1902'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
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Genre/Subject Matter This view, from an elevated position looking east, is taken from the roof of the British Residency at Bushire (Būshehr). The foreground is occupied by a courtyard, from which several doors and windows appear to lead to different compartments. In the left-most corner of th...
'Telegraph Buildings at Reshire. 24. Feb. 1902'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
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Genre/Subject Matter This view from across a tilled field shows three large two-storey buildings. The caption indicates that these buildings are sited at Reshire (Reshīr), situated immediately south of Bushire (Būshehr) and the location of the Telegraph Station mentioned (and photographed) by S...
'Panorama of British Residency and Sea front. 23. Feb. 1902'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
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Genre/Subject Matter This panoramic view of the British Residency and sea-front at Bushire (Būshehr) consists of two small photographic prints pasted side by side, showing a series of buildings of uniform two-storeyed height receding into the distance along the sea-front from right to left. I...
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains informal snapshots and work by professional photographers, showing views of various interiors, viceregal functions and events, together with landscape views of: Bombay, Lucknow, Calcutta, Barakpur, Mashobra, Bhopal, Benares, Narkanda, Delhi, Gwalior, Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1900
Extent:
1 black full-leather, unpublished album (29 pages) containing 99 photographic prints pasted into volume (and one loose) with handwritten captions beneath
'Being carried to the launch from the Residency, Aden.' Photographer: unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: View at Aden of Lady Mary Curzon being carried to the launch from the Residency in a type of sedan chair. Four servants carry the chair aloft across two poles at the centre of the image. A parasol, lined with black material and covered in white covers her head. Only the pa...
Genre/Subject Matter: Informal group photograph on the beach at Aden prior to departure for India. From left: Lord Suffolk [Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk], A.D.C. to the Resident at Aden, Mr Meade, Mr Lawrence, Capt. Marker, Lord Curzon, Resident at Aden [Charles Alexander Cunningham or ...
Genre/Subject Matter: Informal photograph of children on board the Arabia en route to Bombay. Mary Irene Curzon, the eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Curzon, sits at centre in a white bonnet and dress. With her a further three children stand, sit and lie nearby. A woman in white kneels at left,...
Genre/Subject Matter: Informal photograph of children on board the Arabia en route to Bombay. Mary Irene Curzon, the eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Curzon, is at centre in a white bonnet and dress, looking towards the camera. With her a further three children stand, sit and lie nearby. A woma...
Curzon Collection: 'Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903. Of His Majesty King Edward VII. Viceroy. Baron Curzon of Kedleston, P.C., G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E.' (Crookshank)
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Imprint: The Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903 (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1903) Genre/Subject Matter: The volume is a specially published edition, under the imprint of Bourne and Shepherd and printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London. The title page and four page introduction are followe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 red full-leather, published album (207 pages) containing 133 photographic lightly tipped onto album pages with letterpress captions preceding.
'His Excellency The Right Honourable George Nathaniel Baron Curzon, P. C., G. M. S. I., G. M. I. E. Viceroy and Governor-General of India.' Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre/Subject Matter: Full-length standing studio portrait of Lord Curzon, wearing viceregal robes. Curzon stands on a richly patterned carpet before a painted studio backdrop depicting an arch and various floral, textile and architectural motifs. He holds a bicorn (cocked hat) in his left ha...
