Half-leather album, 548x435mm, containing photographs, programmes, addresses of welcome, newspaper cuttings, invitations, menus and other ephemera. The prints have handwritten captions and the album title is stamped in gold on the spine. The album principally records the Prince of Wales' visit t...
Reading Collection: 'Prince of Wales' visit to Delhi'.
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Green cloth-bound album, 258x195mm, containing uncaptioned prints in window mounts. The album is untitled, the front cover having the manufacturer's gold-stamped sun motif and the word: 'Photographs'. A typed list inside provides headings for the various sets of prints. The album relates to the ...
Reading Collection: Viceregal visit to Allahabad. Photographer(s): M. L. Vishwakarma and others,
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Small leather album, 190x245mm, in a silk-embroidered protective cover. The album is untitled and the prints are mounted without captions. The prints depict the Viceroy and Lady Reading's visit to Allahabad on the 1st and 2nd of November 1923. Print 1 shows the interior of the railway station on...
Miscellaneous loose photographs from the Marquess of Reading's collection, mainly dating from his period as Viceroy from 1921-36, but including some material relating to India from outside this period. The collection breaks down into the following broad categories: architectural studies of Vicer...
Viceregal Lodge [Simla]. Photographer: Bremner, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography General exterior view of the Viceregal Lodge, built in 'Elizabethan' style in 1888 to the designs of Henry Irwin. For a series of views taken soon after the house was built, see Photo 47. Subjects = British colonial architecture; European architecture in India...
The gardens & terraces, Viceregal Lodge [Simla]. Photographer: Bremner, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography Looking up the terraces towards the house. Subjects = British colonial architecture; European architecture in India; gardens; government houses; Reading Collection