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1. Photo 20(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(34)
Title:
The Tongsa's body-guard [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of the Tongsa Penlop's bodyguard, with Sir Ugyen Wang Chuk himself standing in the centre. The men carry circular metal shields with four large bosses and the symbol of the sun and crescent moon standing proud.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 61/1(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 61/1(40)
Title:
No. 40. Amerapoora [Amarapura]. Barracks of the Burmese Guard. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'L. Tripe' in ink, bottom right of print. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the front of the thatched huts running along the outer wall of the Residency, served as barracks for the Burmese guard of honour to the mission. The Irrawaddy is visible in the lef...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 197(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 197(9)
Title:
Noonday Gun, [Kabul]. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Close view of a field gun, presumably in the Sherpur Cantonment.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 197(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 197(42)
Title:
Captured Guns, Kabul. Photographer: Bengal Sappers and Miners
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View of captured Afghan field guns, ranged in lines in the Sherpur Cantonment. A light covering of snow lies on the ground. Other copies at Photo 98 (27) and Photo 449/1 (24).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 197(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 197(66)
Title:
[Three Afghan soldiers standing next to a cannon.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 247/2(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/2(11)
Title:
Enterior [sic] of Fort William, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the semaphore tower and a range of buildings inside Fort William, with a row of cannons in the foreground. With posed Indian figures and seated bullocks in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 247/2(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/2(15)
Title:
Amunition [sic] in Fort William, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
View of pyramids of stacked cannonballs inside Fort William, with one of the towers of St Peter's Church visible in the background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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