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1. Photo 615

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615
Title:
James Collection: Album of views in Darjeeling.
Scope & Content:
Full-leather album, 240x307mm, containing mounted prints with detailed handwritten captions (three loose prints are inserted at the back of the album). The front free endpaper is signed: 'by Col H.C. James. R.J.J. from Henry, August 1858'. Photographs include social life scenes of European famil...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
36 items

2. Photo 615(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(1)
Title:
The house of my next door neighbours at Darjeeling (the Mrs Macdonells). I took the view one morning when we were starting for a picnic, the ponies are ready saddled and the men are waiting to take up the sedan chair. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events European group and servants outside a bungalow. Exhibited Museum of Sydney, Imagining India, 16 May - 17 August 1997. Subjects = British colonial architecture; bungalows; domestic life (European); European architecture in India; hill stations; private houses; servants
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 615(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(2)
Title:
A view taken in a Lepcha village just below my house, it gives a good idea of the "style of architecture" of the hill villages. The old lady with the ornaments round her neck was delighted when I asked her to sit for her portrait. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = ethnic groups; Lepchas (ethnic group); rural life; villages
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 615(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(3)
Title:
View from the verandah of Mr Gordon Young's house. To the left is the bazaar, about the centre of the picture high up is the church and just to to the right of the church, with a dot over it, is my house. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = hill stations
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 615(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(4)
Title:
The house in which I lived all the time I was at Darjeeling and where I spent many a pleasant hour. Mrs Gordon Young is seated in the verandah, the right hand window upstairs was my bed room, below it was the drawing room. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Caption continues: 'The building to the left was my servants houses'. An annotation to the right of the print reads: 'You should look at the figures with a magnifying glass'. Subjects = British colonial architecture; bungalows; European architecture in India; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 615(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(5)
Title:
The bed of the 'Runghoo' torrent close to Darjeeling. Under the trees in the centre of the picture was a favorite lunching place. The torrent is rushing down (like wool!) to the right among the gneiss boulders. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = river scenes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 615(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(6)
Title:
Another view from Mr Gordon Young's verandah, you just have a peep of Dr Campbell's greenhouses below, in the centre of the picture. My bearer is sitting on the ground to the right. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Subjects = hill stations; servants
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 615(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(7)
Title:
Mr and Mrs Gordon Young, not a good picture though I see a great likeness. She has very light hair and he is a good looking man! Their boy Percy who is standing by them is a very nice little fellow & a great favorite of mine. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Family portrait. The woman has a caged bird on her lap. The portrait shows William Gordon Young (b. 7.3.1824), Bengal Civil Service, Director of Public Instruction, Lower Provinces in 1858, his wife Jessie Palmer Young and their son Percy Gordon Radstock Young (b. 18...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 615(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(8)
Title:
The view of the Darjeeling church from my bed room window. The houses to the right are where my servants lived. You [?] it is washing day with me. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Caption continues: 'Over the church as far as the tree to the right the snowy mountains should appear in all their glory, but they would not come out'. Subjects = British colonial architecture; churches; European architecture in India; hill stations; servants
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 615(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 615(9)
Title:
The entrance to Darjeeling. My pony is standing on the road which during the panics was defended by [?] fortifications thrown up to defend it, you see the gabions to the right centre. In front is a steep high barren mountain. This is a bad print. Photographer: James, Henry Curry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = fortifications; hill stations
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item