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1. Photo 1258

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258
Title:
Stanley Sperring: Photographs of Calcutta. Photographer: Stanley Sperring
Scope & Content:
Black half leather album measuring 365 x 463 mm, containing 53 prints, with typescript caption labels pasted beneath. Fifty of the photographs are modern reprints from negatives of Calcutta scenes taken by Stanley Sperring (1915-2012) between 1946 and 1953, when he was art director in Calcutta o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1946-1953
Extent:
53 items

2. Photo 1258(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(1)
Title:
Stanley Sperring aged 36 — 1950. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length portrait, seated reading. Sperring (1915-2012), the photographer of the prints contained in this volume, was art director for the advertising firm of D. J. Keymer and Co. in their Calcutta office, from 1946-53.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1950
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1258(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(2)
Title:
Stanley Sperring aged 90 in 2005. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-length snapshot portrait, taken outdoors in England. Sperring (1915-2012), the photographer of the prints contained in this volume, was art director for the advertising firm of D. J. Keymer and Co. in their Calcutta office, from 1946-53.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
2005
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1258(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(3)
Title:
Mrs Gwen Sperring. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Gwen Sperring, wife of Stanley Sperring (1915-2012).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1258(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(4)
Title:
Monsoon floods, Calcutta, 1950. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:
Pedestrians in a flooded Calcutta street.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1950
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1258(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(5)
Title:
Monsoon floods, Calcutta, 1950. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:
Pedestrians in a flooded Calcutta street.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1950
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1258(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(6)
Title:
Coolies carrying grand piano, Chowringhee [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1946-1953
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1258(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(7)
Title:
Crowded bus, Chowringhee [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1946-1953
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1258(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(8)
Title:
Crowded bus—Chowringhee [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1946-1953
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1258(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(9)
Title:
Muslim beggar in purdah [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:
Two female beggars in burqas, seated on the street.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1946-1953
Extent:
1 item