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1. Photo 1000/9(964)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/9(964)
Title:
The Great Gun, Bijapur. Photographer: Biggs, Thomas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Albumen print from a waxed calotype negative. The Great Gun or Malik-i-Maidan, with Indian figures grouped around it. This print is tightly cropped around the gun: the original negative shows more of the surrounding area.The gun was placed beside the Sherza Burj...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/10(1107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1107)
Title:
Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Plate xi of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monument...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/10(1139)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/10(1139)
Title:
Spear-heads, etc., contents of cairns and barrows, Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of artefacts photographed beside a measuring rule. Plate xliii of James Wilkinson Breeks, 'An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris' (India Museum, London, 1873).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1000/22(2133a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/22(2133a)
Title:
The Great Court of the Fort, Agra. Photographer: Impey, Eugene Clutterbuck
Scope & Content:
The view looks northwards across the court in front of the Diwan-i-Am (the façade of which can be seen at the extreme right) towards the domes of the Moti Masjid in the background. In the centre of the view, in front of the Diwan-i-Am, is the tomb of John Russell Colvin, Lieutenant-Governor of t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/34(3522)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3522)
Title:
No. 73. Amerapoora. Palace of the White Elephant. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A square, open-sided wooden hall with tiered roof. A number of cannons lie in the courtyard in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'The white elephant is the same Crawfurd saw in 1826; it is now fifty years old: it has its guards, four white and eight gold um...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1000/42(4394)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4394)
Title:
Todas with clubs, etc., Nilgiri Hills. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of four Toda men, carrying spears and clubs. One figure appears to be playing a flute-like instrument, while the crouching figure on the left holds a stringed instrument. Duplicate of print 1107.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1000/42(4412d)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4412d)
Title:
Full-length standing portrait of an African soldier or slaver with musket and powder horn, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b/w print

8. Photo 1000/42(4413a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4413a)
Title:
Full-length standing portrait of an African soldier or slaver with musket and powder horn, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b/w print

9. Photo 1000/42(4413b)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4413b)
Title:
Full-length standing portrait of an African soldier or slaver with musket and powder horn, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b/w print

10. Photo 1000/42(4413c)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4413c)
Title:
Full-length standing portrait of an African soldier or slaver with musket and powder horn, Aden. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 b/w print