Sir Frederick Sykes Collection: Album of miscellaneous views and portraits.
Scope & Content:
Black half-leather album, 310 x 420 mm, containing uncaptioned prints mounted with adhesive corner mounts. The photographs are the work of commercial photographers covering events attended by the Governor of Bombay and are mostly informal shots, with only a few formally posed portraits. The majo...
[Portrait of the Irwins and Willingdons outside Government House, Bombay.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portraits of the outgoing Irwins and the new Viceroy and Vicereine, standing at the foot of the staircase at the entrance to Government House. Subjects = viceroys
[Large group portrait of the Poona Hunt(?) with the Governor of Bombay, Sir Frederick Sykes, at Ganeshkhind.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography The sitters are wearing hunting dress and are presumably members of the Poona Hunt. Three of Sykes' children are sitting on the ground in front of the Governor and Lady Sykes. Subjects = governors; hunting (fox); Poona Hunt
[Group portrait with the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, the Governor of Bombay and officials and their wives, at Ganeshkhind.] Photographer: Backhouse and Co