Camp at Lundi Kotal. Photographer: Holmes, William (James) Dacia
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Inscription: Captioned as above and signed 'Holmes' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View from the neighbouring hillside, looking down onto a large military encampment of tents, with the fort of Landi Kotal visible in the background. A pencilled note on the mount reads: 'The Khybe...
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a campsite in the Sind Valley,with tents pitched on the grassy slope of the hillside, and a European man and Indian porters and servants posed for the photographer. Snow-capped mountain peaks rise on the far side of the valley.
My Indian Trophies. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Full-length portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, seated in front of his tent with a large collection of animal heads, in the garden of the Apcar's house in Calcutta. Lucas describes this photographic session in a diary letter to his parents: '27 Decr. Up at da...
Portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, standing with an Indian servant in front of his tent (pitched in the garden of the Calcutta house belonging to the Apcar family), with hunting trophies arranged around him. See print 195 for a note on this photographic sess...
[Indian Forest Trees.] No. 15. Terminalia tomentosa. Saj tree. Boree [Bori] Forest. My camp. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of of a saj tree in a forest clearing, with Webber's tent on the right. With additional note on album page beneath print: 'Called 'asan' in Bengal. A very common beautiful & very lofty tree with very straight stem usually found with sal which it strongly re...