Watson Collection: Album of snapshot views in Persia and India.. Photographer(s): Watson, John Williams
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Maroon half-leather album, measuring 278 x 380 mm, containing prints (mostly snapshots) mounted several to a page, with handwritten captions. Prints 1-20 'Poona 1901-1903', including portraits of dogs and horses and shikar scenes. Prints 21-90 Miscellaneous portraits, from 1903, taken while Wat...
[Prints 91-104 are portraits of revolutionaries in Persia.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Portraits of armed Baluchis, Turks and Persians involved in the constitutional revolution in Persia, between 1905-c.09, including Salar Khan and Baluchi followers, Tukish revolutionaries, the declaration of the deposition of Shah Muhammad Ali, and guns on the streets of...
Watson Collection: Miscellaneous portraits and views. Photographer(s): Watson, John Williams
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Collection of loose photographs, some mounted, including small snapshots by Watson and large formal prints by professional photographers. John Williams Watson (b. 1874) served in the Indian Medical Service from 1898-1929. In 1908 he was civil surgeon at the Consulate at Turbat-i-Haidari, south ...