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1. Photo 1000/31(3181)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/31(3181)
Title:
The Great Gun Malik-i-Maidan, Bijapur. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, with an Indian man standing beside the muzzle to indicate scale. India Museum no. 1423. Received from Captain Lyon, 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3181). 532. - There were formerly six gates to the ancient city, the Makkah being o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/42(4359)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4359)
Title:
Group of Hara Rajputs. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Group of five men posed at the base of a tree. Duplicate of plate 68(a) of Impey's Delhi, Agra, and Rajpootana, illustrated by eighty photographs (London, 1865): 'The Haras are the most important of the twenty-four branches of the Chohan tribe of Rajpoots, and are descended from Manikrae, King o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1865
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/42(4363)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/42(4363)
Title:
Group of Purriar Meenas, robber tribe of Rajasthan. Photographer: Eugene Clutterbuck Impey.
Scope & Content:
Group of four men, posed in front of a thatched house, and armed with matchlocks, bows and other weapons. This print appears (in oval format) in vol. VII no. 341 of The People of India (8 vols., London, 1868-74), from which the caption is taken.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c. 1865
Extent:
1 item