View in the Indian Court of the Paris Exhibition. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Close view of a collection of artefacts grouped beneath a decorative awning supported by four poles. The objects include a carved marble screen, embroidered cushions, fans, etc.
View in the Indian Court at the London International Exhibition. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Photograph with letterpress caption on mount. The view looks towards display cases filled with earthenware, and stands holding frames, each containing several pictures.
View in the Indian Court at the London International Exhibition. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Photograph with letterpress caption on mount. View looking along a wall lined with display cases containing carved boxes and other fine work. In the background is a plaster-cast reproduction of one of the gateways from the great Buddhist stupa at Sanchi.
Firewood depot, with bullock cart in foreground, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Landscape Photography The print mount is signed 'Shivashanker Narayen, Photographer. G.W. Terry dirext.' Terry was Head of the Bombay School of Art.
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing a woman reeling cotton.
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Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (ii).
Washermen at work beside a river or pond. Photographer: Hooper and Western
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography This is presumably one of the series of views by Hooper & Western which was shown first at the London Exhibition of 1871 and later at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forbes Watson, 'Vienna Universal Exhibition, 1873. A classified and descriptive catalogue...