[Copy of a painting] Fort at Lanka. King Ravana who held Sita, the wife of Rama, prisoner, until released by Hanuman and friends. Photographer: Unknown
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Note reads: 'Some 50 years ago in Madras I bought for a few Rupees the painting of which this is a photograph enlarged to the exact size of the original = 13½x10½. The V&A museum expressed the view that the painting had been made around 1800. It was sold at Sothebys about 20 years ago, [sign...
Colaba War Hospital Staff in 1918. Photographer: Vernon and Company
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Genre: Portrait Photography Formal group. T.W. Barnard is marked with a blue cross. Subjects = British army; health care facilities; hospitals; military (general); Royal Army Medical Corps
[The Drawing Room of 'Chipstead', a bungalow in Madras.] Photographer: Klein and Peyerl
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A note is attached to the print which reads: 'In the 1974 Annual Report of the India Office Library and Records there appears an illustration of the interior of a house in Madura, Madras. It has occurred to me that the authorities 200 years (??) hence may like to publish in an Annual Report a ph...
Genre: Portrait Photography T.W. Barnard and other leaders with a group of Scouts posed behind a plaque which reads: 'The Pachaiyappa Rover Crew'. Subjects = Boy Scouts; clubs and societies