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1. Photo 27(1)

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Photo 27(1)
Title:
The Gate of the Residency & the clock tower opposite [Lucknow]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events This appears to be no. 38 in the Lucknow and Delhi section of the catalogue of Beato views published by Hering in London and titled 'Bailee Guard-gate, taken from the inside, showing the Clock Tower'. The Baillie Guard Gate dominates the foreground of the photograph. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 27(2)

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Photo 27(2)
Title:
The inside of the Secundra Bagh where 2000 men were killed [Lucknow]. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events No. 13 in the Lucknow and Cawnpore section of the published catalogue of Beato views, entitled: 'Interior of the Secundra Bagh after the slaughter of 2,000 rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and the 4th Punjab Regt. - First attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November, 1857'. V...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 27(3)

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Photo 27(3)
Title:
The Martinière College at Lucknow. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the lake looking towards the building known as Constantia, built by General Claude Martin as a country retreat and mausoleum, and completed after his death in 1800. The tall fluted column standing in the lake in the foreground was a later addition, des...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 27(7)

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Photo 27(7)
Title:
The Dilkusha, Lucknow. Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the main facade of the Dilkusha or Heart's Delight, a hunting box built by Saadat Ali Khan in classical European style with an Ionic prostyle portico flanked by an octagonal and a square tower on either side. The building was the scene of fierce ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 27(19)

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Photo 27(19)
Title:
[Elephant gun carriage, ?Lucknow.] Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events British officers posed in a front of an elephant-drawn gun carriage, probably photographed at Lucknow or Cawnpore (Kanpur). Subjects = animals; arms and armour; elephant gun carriages; elephants; gun carriages; military (general); military campaigns
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 27(21)

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Photo 27(21)
Title:
[Sikh native officer, ?Lucknow.] Photographer: Beato, Felice
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait, lightly hand-coloured. This figure may be the officer identified as Man Singh in the preceding print. Subjects = Indian Army; military (general); Sikhs
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 27(23)

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Photo 27(23)
Title:
Amir Sher Ali. Photographer: Baker and Burke
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait in profile, wearing a black woollen hat, an elaborately patterned coat and grasping a sword in his right hand. A portrait taken on the same occasion as print 24 (qv), and almost certainly the photograph referred to in Baker & Burke's 1...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 27(25)

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Photo 27(25)
Title:
[Men of the Pakpoo Tribe, Tiznap River, south-west China]. Photographer: Chapman, Edward Francis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of two squatting figures. This photograph also appears as plate 21 of Sir Thomas Forsyth's 'Report of a mission to Yarkund in 1873' (Calcutta, 1875), which is illustrated with 102 original tipped-in prints and describes the mission sent to Yarkand for ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 27(26)

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Photo 27(26)
Title:
Pakhpu of Khalistan, upper course of Tiznaf River, Yarkand. Photographer: Chapman, Edward Francis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two men squatting in front of a tent. This photograph also appears as print 20 from Forsyth's Report (see preceding print, which shows the same figures) and is there titled 'Men of the Pakpoo tribe living in the Valleys bordering that of the Tisnaf River'. Sub...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 27(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 27(27)
Title:
Hangu Cantonment, NWFP Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = cantonments; military (general); military facilities Location = Hangu; North-West Frontier Province; Pakistan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870s
Extent:
1 item