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1. Photo 20(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(25)
Title:
Tongsa Penlop [Sir Ugyen Wang Chuk] and family [Tongsa, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, posed in front of the wooden verandah of a house. The figures in the photograph are identified as follows: front row—eldest daughter of Thimbu Jongpen, Tongsa Penlop, sister of Tongsa Penlop; back row (on verandah)—younger daughter also married to nep...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 20(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(37)
Title:
Tongsa Penlop's sister's family [Tongsa, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, the family gathered on the entrance steps to a house. The photograph was used in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 434), with the following caption: 'The Royal Family of Bhutan. On the top step stands the king, not in his robes of state b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 29(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(51)
Title:
Banian tree in Barrackpore Park, interior view. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1748 in the negative. Portrait of the European lady also seen in prints 50 and 53, seated among the aerial roots of the banyan tree in Barrackpore Park.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 29(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(53)
Title:
Gothic ruin with creepers in Barrackpore Park. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1750 in the negative. View looking towards the ivy-covered gothic folly in Barrackpore, with the European lady also seen in plates 50-51 seated in the foreground among palms and other shrubbery.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 127(70)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 127(70)
Title:
Cashmere nautch girl. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of a reclining Kashmiri nautch girl. ethnic groups; Kashmiris;
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 127(98)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 127(98)
Title:
[Jewellers of Galle, Ceylon.] Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Carte-de-visite study of a group of Galle jewellers gathered round a table with their wares. For larger format prints featuring the same group, see Photo 210/1 (52) and Photo 1224/1 (131).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 210/1(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 210/1(52)
Title:
Galle Jewellers. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Four men standing round a table displaying jewellery. For another copy, see Photo 1224/1 (131) and for a carte-de-visite of the same group in a different pose, see Photo 127 (98). Photograph of four jewellers from Galle, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), displayin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 247/1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/1(25)
Title:
Hut of a pariah woman near Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig' (signature cropped). Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Stusy of a woman squatting beside a thatched hut in foreground, with fields and other more substantial thatched houses beyond. Part of the land in the background appears to be in use as ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 394(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 394(16)
Title:
Natch girls of Srinugger, Cashmere. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Bourne no. 810.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 430/3(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/3(59)
Title:
Nautch girls [Kabul]. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Seated group, with musicians. Subjects = Afghanis; Curzon Collection; dance; ethnic groups; musicians; nautches;
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1879-1880
Extent:
1 item