Lantern slides of famine scenes. Photographer: Sheffield, Joseph Robert
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A collection of 68 lantern slides, the majority hand-coloured, of famine scenes: emaciated victims, dead bodies, famine relief camps and work, distribution of food, etc. The precise date and location of the famine here depicted has not been identified. A number of the original negatives from whi...
Madras [famine relief grain supplies on the beach]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking southwards along the beach, which is covered with sacks of grain for famine relief. This image is reproduced in William Digby, The famine campaign in Southern India (London, 1878), and there dated February 1877.