Herbert Henry Spalding Collection: Album of views in India, Sri Lanka, Europe and Japan. Photographer(s): Nicholas and Company
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Black half-leather album, 370x310mm, containing mounted prints (two loose) with handwritten captions. The album spine is decorated in gold leaf with the word, 'Scrapbook'. The photographs include group portraits and views in Yercaud, Trichinopoly, Quetta, NWFP, Pudukkottai, Colombo, Mount Lavini...
Group, Chief Engineer's Drawing Office, [South Indian Railway Co Ltd, Trichinopoly], 1898. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group with the Chief Engineer, W.H. Spalding, and Indian assistants. Subjects = railway companies; railways; South Indian Railway; Spalding Collection; transport