Walter Hawkins Nightingale Collection: Album of miscellaneous views and portraits.
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Blue and maroon half-leather album, 295 x 250 mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions, from the collection of Walter Hawkins Nightingale, Public Works Department. The album is in very poor condition. Photographs include views and portraits at Burdwan (Barddhaman), Bankura, Bodh G...
WHN and Mrs N at Burdwan, Bengal, 1870[?]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Oval print. View of a two storey house, with W.H. Nightingale and his wife standing outside. According to Nightingale's record in the Public Works Department History of Services 1900, he was not appointed to Burdwan until March 1873. Subjects = British colonia...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of W.H. Nightingale's house. Subjects = British colonial architecture; European architecture in India; private houses Location = Barddhaman; Burdwan; India; West Bengal
Genre: Architectural Photography View taken outside a building with five Indian police constables standing in a line and various Europeans and Indians posed to the left and rear. Possibly at Burdwan. Subjects = Bengal Police; Indian Police; police; police stations Location = Barddhaman; Bur...
My first attempt at photography. Photographer: Nightingale, Walter Hawkins
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a young European girl and Indian servant. Taken by Walter Nightingale? Subjects = Location = Barddhaman; Burdwan; India; West Bengal