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1. Photo 430/75

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/75
Title:
Curzon Collection: Curzon's first year as Viceroy
Scope & Content:
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1 black full-leather, unpublished album (29 pages) containing 99 photographic prints pasted into volume (and one loose) with handwritten captions beneath

2. Photo 430/78

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78
Title:
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)
Scope & Content:
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.

3. Photo 430/78(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78(5)
Title:
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Connaught, with members of the Delhi Durbar Household. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Formal group portrait outside one of the tents of the Viceroy's camp. The sitters in the group are identified as follows: Front row, seated l. to r.: Mrs Bingham, The Duke and Duchess of Connaught, Mrs Leslie; second row, standing r. to l.: Col L. Herbert, Col the Ho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 430/78(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78(6)
Title:
His Excellency The Right Honourable Horatio Herbert Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.M.G., R.E. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of Lord Kitchener, in uniform, mounted on horseback. Subjects = British army; Curzon Collection; durbars; equestrian portraits; military (general); official events; uniforms
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 430/78(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78(8)
Title:
H.E. The Viceroy's Camp [at the Delhi Durbar]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events General view looking between lines of tents in the Viceroy's Camp. Subjects = camps; Curzon Collection; durbars; official events
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 430/78(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78(9)
Title:
H.E. The Commander-in-Chief's Camp [Delhi Durbar]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events General view of camp. Subjects = camps; Curzon Collection; durbars; official events
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 430/78(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78(11)
Title:
The Viceroy's Staff, Delhi Durbar. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of the Viceroy's Staff, wearing civilian dress. The print has been cropped to a long, narrow format. Accompanying key identifies the sitters as follows: front row, seated l. to r.: Captain Lindsay, Captain Baker-Carr, Colonel Fenn, Colonel The Hon. E. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 430/78(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78(12)
Title:
The Viceregal guests [at the Delhi Durbar]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Formal group portrait. Duplicate at Photo 430/10 (4), which supplies date for the taking of the photograph. The accompanying key identifies the sitters as follows: '1. Captain the Hon'ble John Yarde-Buller; 2. The Hon'ble Dudley Marjoribanks; 3. Captain K. Wigram; 4....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
9 Jan 1903
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 430/78(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78(17)
Title:
The elephant which carried Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Connaught in the State Entry into Delhi, December 29, 1902. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View of the elephant, richly caparisoned and with a howdah embellished with decorations in the form of a tiger attacking an antelope. Subjects = animals; Curzon Collection; durbars; howdahs; official events; state elephants
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1902
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 430/78(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/78(21)
Title:
The City of Tents. A general view of the Camps; the white line in the distance is the roof of the great [Delhi] Durbar Amphitheatre. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = camps; Curzon Collection; durbars; official events
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item