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1. Photo 515

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515
Title:
Ernest Binfield Havell Collection: Indian and Sri Lankan photographs.
Scope & Content:
Collection in two parts (Photo 515/1-2), an album of views and loose prints. Ernest Binfield Havell (1861-1934) served in the Indian Educational Service. He was Superintendent of the Madras School of Arts 1884-92 and Principal of the Calcutta School of Arts from 1896-1906.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1900s
Extent:
Unspecified

2. Photo 515/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1
Title:
Ernest Binfield Havell Collection: Album of Indian views and arts and crafts. Photographer(s): Nicholas and Company
Scope & Content:
Red half-leather bound album measuring 280x385mm, spine piece missing and covers loose and with considerable worm damage to boards (although prints on the whole are unaffected). The album contains two sequences of prints starting from each end of the volume and may have been compiled by an addit...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
56 items

3. Photo 515/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1(1)
Title:
[South Indian devotee of Ganesh, Madras district.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = ascetics
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 515/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1(2)
Title:
[Hindu ascetic with iron collar.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of an ascetic, sitting cross-legged with palm-leaf books in front of him and wearing a cumbersome metal collar. Probably the print listed in the Nicholas & Co. catalogue as '13. Devotee, with iron collar.' Subjects = ascetics; reading...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 515/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1(3)
Title:
[Studio portrait of a South Indian family, Madras district.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full length standing portrait of a man and a woman with a child at their feet. The woman holds a saucepan and the man a sitar-like instrument. Subjects =
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 515/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1(4)
Title:
[Snake charmers, Madras district.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = entertainers; snake charmers
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 515/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1(5)
Title:
Scope & Content:
Subjects =
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 515/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1(6)
Title:
[Two fishermen in a canoe, Madras district.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = fishing; fishing boats; local craft; transport; water transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 515/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1(7)
Title:
[View of the waterfront, Madras.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects =
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 515/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 515/1(8)
Title:
[Toddy tappers, Madras district.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Toddy tapper posed half-way up a tree, with a figure in the foreground carrying two jars of toddy slung on a yoke over his shoulder. Probably the print listed in the Nicholas & Co. catalogue as '40. Toddyman climbing a cocoanut tree.' Subjects = food and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item