Subject: Food and Drink - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.39, 9(27)
Title:: Arab sportsmen and cook. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, 'Frith 162.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of two figures posed in front of a tent, the standing figure holding the bird he has shot, the other seated beside his stove: 'The group before us is one with which every traveller in the East will claim ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(114)
Title:: Sartes s'accroupis sur la terrasse d'une maison et mangeant le palao. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 114. Portrait of three man seated round a plate of pilaf on the verandah of a house in Russian Turkestan (precise location unspecified). The term Sart refers to the settled as opposed to nomadic populations of Central Asia.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(116)
Title:: Sartes prenant le thé près de l'entrée d'une mosquée [Russian Turkestan]. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Facing p. 116. Portrait group of three Sart man seated drinking tea in front of a mosque in Russian Turkestan (precise location unspecified). The term Sart refers to the settled as opposed to the nomadic populations of Central Asia.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.11(188)
Title:: Un Tchaї-khané à Namaz-Ga pendant la fête du Kourban-Namaz. Photographer: Krafft, Hugues
Scope & Content:: Facing p. 188. View showing customers taking tea in the teahouse in the grounds of the mosque.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1898-1899
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(3)
Title:: La cuisine de la Malocca N.4, qui se trouve toujours à une petite distance de l'habitation. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of an Indian cooking hut in a clearing, always situated apart from the 'malocca' or communal living house, with three figures posed in the open-sided thatched structure. Various implements and utensils - cooking pots, baskets and tools - are includ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(37)
Title:: Miranhas (rive droite). Indiens demi civilisés près du lac Arini (père et mère), dont la femme porte un régime de bananes indigènes, appelées da Terra. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of a Miranhas Indian man and woman, montaged against a backdrop of the aerial roots of a (mangrove?) tree. The man is seated on the roots; the woman, standing in profile, carries a large stem of local bananas on her back.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(38)
Title:: Miranhas (rive droite). Indiens demi civilisés près du lac Arini (frère et sœur), dont la femme porte un régime de bananes indigènes, appelées da Terra. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography A similarly posed portrait to the preceding print, montaged against the same backdrop of roots, but showing a youth and a young woman.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.10(25)
Title:: Unmarried women and girl of Spiti. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of three women, gathered round pots.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(27)
Title:: What do I want, John Henry? Warrenton, Va., November, 1862. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography Group portrait of officers relaxing in front of their tents, with a black servant holding a bottle and a plate.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 2(59)
Title:: Fruit. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Still Life Photography Arched top. Still life arrangement of Chinese fruits, arranged on a table, with a wine glass in the centre.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

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