Subject: Firearms - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/58(5381)
Title:: Damascened gun (belonging to?) Prince of Wales. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1041(46)
Title:: An Abyssinian soldier. Photographer: Swayne, Harald George Carlos
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Numbered '46' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Soldier posed with shield, spear and rifle in the British mission compound at Addis Ababa.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Apr 1897-Jun 1897
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1104(20)
Title:: Afreedi. N.W.F.P. India. Photographer: Holmes, Randolph Bezzant
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Holmes 123' and captioned in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of an Afridi man, standing among boulders on a mountainside, armed with a jezail and a curved sword.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1910
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1104(23)
Title:: The Sniper. Photographer: Holmes, Randolph Bezzant
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Holmes 131' and captioned in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Study of an Afridi tribesman, crouching behind the shelter of a boulder on a hillside, taking aim with his zejail.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1910
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1104(24)
Title:: The Watchers. Photographer: Holmes, Randolph Bezzant
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Holmes 139' and captioned in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Study of two Afridi tribesman, keeping watch on a hillside.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1910
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1113(299a)
Title:: Wheel Canon, Shanghai.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of men with wheel canon; original negative only, no print.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1890s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1166/3(10)
Title:: Lahore Fort. Old Armoury. Photographer: Bremner, Frederick
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bremner 826' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the interior of the armoury, showing walls lined with breastplates,shields, swords and muskets.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1176/3(15)
Title:: [Hunting group posed with rifles on elephants, Mathura] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1884
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(46)
Title:: Looking down the Pei-ho River toward North Fort and bay, from Northwest Fort, Taku, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:: Pei-ho River in the far distance. Bastions of the Northwest Fort with a breech-loading rifle are in the foreground. A British Marine, in a white uniform, stands to the right holding a Lee-Mitford rifle at his side.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1188(56)
Title:: Destructive guns from H.M.S. Terrible and distant burning city fired by their shells—bombardment of Tientsin, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

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