The Seth of Muttra [Mathura]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Mathura was visited by the compiler of this album between 11th and 13th March, 1878. Full-length seated studio portrait of a seth (rich merchant/donor) of Mathura. Tentatively identified as Seth Luchmee Chund. Photograph unsigned, but probably by Bourne and Shepherd.
Japanese restaurant in European style. Photographer: Unknown
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Numbered 624 in the negative. Studio tableau of a Japanese man seated at a table and being attended to by a waiter, both dressed in European clothes. The pair are surrounded by European furniture and a painting.
Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...
Full-length hand tinted studio portrait of two girls, one seated on a chair holding a stringed instrument, the other standing beside her. In the background are four banners with Chinese inscriptions.