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1. Photo 355/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1
Title:
Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album

2. Photo 355/1(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(49)
Title:
'Bassidore Station'
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Scene showing a settlement and Indian troops on parade at Bassidore (Basaidu) Station on the western extremity of Qeshm (Kishm) Island. The mud and reed-built two-storey building behind the troops is surrounded by a fence. To the left of the image in the middle-ground he...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print

3. Photo 355/1(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(48)
Title:
'Minaret in Ormuz'
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This photograph shows a dilapidated tower or minaret on the island of Hormuz off the coast of Bandar Abbas. To the left in the background several reed or palm-frond structures are visible while to the right there is a white-washed, one-storey building. Two European men...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print

4. Photo 355/1(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(47)
Title:
'Muscat Cove'
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of a cove at Muscat showing a British naval squadron. At least six Royal Navy vessels at anchor in the middle-ground and background. Rocky hills rise in the background and various fortifications are visible on the rocky coastline to the right of the image. Inscripti...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print

5. Photo 355/1(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(34)
Title:
Entrance to Bushire Residency
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: General view of the Bushire Residency and surrounding buildings, looking across a paved area. A low wall from left to right across the centre of the image divides the paved area from the Residency. To the left of the image a low-ceilinged flat-roofed structure occupies mu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print

6. Photo 355/1(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(36)
Title:
'Bushire sea-side view.'
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: General view of the sea-front at Bushire. A dhow with a lateen sail can be seen immediately to the right of the centre along the horizon. The highest structure along the horizon is a wind tower, which can be seen right of centre. In the foreground is a boat at anchor. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print

7. Photo 355/1(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(37)
Title:
'Governor's House Bushire'
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: General view of Bushire from a high point. The photograph was likely taken from the Governor's House rather than with the intention of depicting it as no particular structure appears to be the main subject of the photograph. The sea front can be seen along the horizon at...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print

8. Photo 355/1(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(41)
Title:
'Telegraph Station, Jask'
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: General view of the British Telegraph Station at Jask. Typical of British Colonial architecture, the installation consists of at least five two-storey structures featuring round arches. The foreground and middle-ground is made up of a stoney plain with little vegetation....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print

9. Photo 355/1(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(43)
Title:
'Muscat Consulate & Agency'
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View looking south-west across the harbour towards the British Consultate and Agency and surrounding buildings. This is presumably the white building with the flag-staff on the roof. In the middle- and foreground to the right of the image various dhows and other craft ar...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print

10. Photo 355/1(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1(39)
Title:
'Old Portuguese Fort, Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: View of the Old Portuguese Fort or Qal'at al-Bahrain, location of the ancient capital of the Dilmun civilization. The fortified structure along the horizon is at the top of a tel. In the middle-ground, immediately in front of the fort, a large number reed or palm frond s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1870
Extent:
1 b&w albumen print