Surat: English Burial Ground: tombs of ancient Governors. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards a large group of elaborate domed tombs in the English Burial Ground at Surat. The memorials themselves are partly obscured by foreground vegetation.
A Bombay cotton merchant and his associates. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of cotton brokers and workers, posed in front of large bales of cotton. For a similar view, but with different figures posed in front of the same bales of cotton, see Vidya Dehejia (ed), 'India through the Lens. Photography 1840-1911' (...
Jhansi: Central India; a peep through the forest. Photographer: Unknown
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Inscription: Numbered '838' in pencil on reverse. Genre: Landscape Photography View framed by foreground trees, looking towards European houses dotted along the hillside, with a European and two Indian figures posed in the open ground in the middleground.
Bene Israels, a rich shipowner. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two members of the Bombay Bene Israelite community, one seated and one standing beside a table.