Sassoon's Buildings, Elphinstone Circle [Bombay]. Photographer: Unknown, possibly Tandy and Co.
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View looking along the facade of the building from the street. Ground floor portions of the building are occupied by Robert Brown and Co, plumbers and coppersmiths and the Frere Family Hotel. From an album of views recording properties in Bombay (Mumbai) owned by the Sassoon family. The illustra...
The Sham-e-Paris (‘Parisian Evenings’) wedding hall in the Taymani neighbourhood. Common in Pakistan, these huge wedding complexes have sprung up all over Kabul with dining and entertainment halls to seat a thousand on each storey and even an on-site honeymoon hotel. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
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A view at night of a hotel and grounds lit up with decorative lights. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromogenic print on Fujicol...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a stretch of water towards the tea house. The text relating to this image states that this is 'the most frequented tea house of native hotel at Kanasawa, situate on the shore of Goldsborough Inlet, at a distance of about ten miles from Yokohama, ...