Monks in full dress. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: 'Lamas or Monks.' Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Buddhist monks in ceremonial dress, seated on a hillside.
Army repair shop. February, 1864 [A field workshop in the Ninth Army Corps, before Petersburg]. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
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Genre: War Photography View of the tents of the repair shop, with craftsmen posed at work in front: 'The tent fly, with its partial walls of loose bricks, covers the forge. Around it are the wheel and harness-makers, evidently resting, with pleasing expectations of forming a dominant feauture o...
Forge scene. Front of Petersburg, August, 1864. Photographer: Knox, David
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Genre: War Photography 'This photograph represents one of the forges used by the army at Petersburg, and was taken during the intense heat of a summer day. The trees in the distance are dimly seen through the tremulous air, and the pine twigs droop from the eaves of the hut as if a a fire had s...
Emptying cars of guano into the shoot, Chincha Islands. Photographer: Moulton, Henry
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Genre: Industrial Photography Showing labourers, under armed guard, emptying the horse-drawn railway trolleys of guano at the cliff-face. In the foreground, a foreman or overseer is self-consciously posed in the act of a handing a coin to one of the workers.