Subject: Travel - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1148(48)
Title:: Wayfarers resting under the pines at Suzukawa — west along old post-road from Tokyo to Kyoto, Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/4(88)
Title:: 'Oceanic.' Yokohama to San Francisco. August 13th-26th (14 days 5 hours, fastest passage on record). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Photographic copy of a painting of the steamship Oceanic, seen from the port beam.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1228(56)
Title:: Goruckpore [Gorakhpur], May 1870. Start for the jungle. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:: Showing Indian servants loading baggage onto the howdah of a kneeling elephant.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1295(68)
Title:: Passengers embarking on an Irawaddy steamer, Mada, Burma. Photographer: Stereo Travel Company (New York)
Scope & Content:: Stereoscopic view, looking along the riverbank, where passengers wait to embark. Image copyrighted 1908, by the Stereo Travel Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1908
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1332
Title:: Alfred Ezra's diary of a shooting expedition from Calcutta to England overland via the Pamirs and Turkestan in 1902. Calcutta: Printed at the Mercantile Printing Works, 1/1, Pollock Street. 1911
Scope & Content:: Typescript journal covering the period 14 May to 30 November 1902, with photographic illustrations pasted in, documenting a hunting trip in Central Asia made by Aaron (Alfred 'Chips') Elias David Ezra (1872-1955). A note at the end of the volume refers to corrections made to the printed edition,...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1902
Extent:: Bound typescript diary illustrated with 42 gelatin silver prints (plus photographic copy of a map of India)

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 1/5(5)
Title:: Taking to the canoes. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View of two Europeans in canoes on the river. The photograph accompanies an account (pp. 6-8 and continued in the following number) of a canoe cruise 'From Tana, up-river, and then via Inosima and Kanasawa to Yokohama,' made on 18-19 June 1870.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 18-19 Jun 1870
Extent:: 1 item

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