Measuring labourers' work and storing salt [Sambhar Lake]. Photographer: Unknown
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Showing labourers carrying baskets of salt to a top of a large pile. In the foreground workers are gathered round smaller mounds of salt whose height is being measured. The lake was leased to the British authorities for salt extraction in 1870. Subjects = Dunlop Smith Collection; industries; s...
Yarkund Mission, 1873. — Group at Kurgallik. Photographer: Chapman, Edward Francis
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Genre: Historical Events Group of men of Kargilik (modern Yecheng) posed in a courtyard. This print also appears as plate 22 of Sir T. D. Forsyth's 'Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873' (Calcutta, 1875), entitled, 'Group of natives of Kargullik, Nov. 1873. Subjects = diplomatic missions; D...
Yarkund Mission, 1873. — Akhoe [tent] extraordinary. Photographer: Chapman, Edward Francis
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Genre: Historical Events Felt tent pitched in a courtyard at Yangi Hissar (modern Yengisar). This print also appears as plate 51 of Sir T. D. Forsyth's 'Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873' (Calcutta, 1875), entitled, 'Kirghiz Felt (Akoe) occupied by officers of the mission at Yangi Hissar.'...
Interior of the Union Church, Simla. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = British colonial architecture; churches; Dunlop Smith Collection; European architecture in India; interiors
House at Cossipore [Calcutta]. Photographer: Stretton, William George
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of part of garden and front of house also seen in print 137, with figures parked beside the carriage under the porte-cochère. Subjects = British colonial architecture; Dunlop Smith Collection; European architecture in India; gardens; private houses
Kennedy Lodge, Simla. Photographer: Craddock, James
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Genre: Architectural Photography Snow scene, looking towards the house. The nameplate on the gate announces it as the residence of 'Mr A. O'Meara, Surgeon Dentist'. O'Meara had come to Simla in 1850, and was for many years the only dentist in the Punjab. Subjects = British colonial architectu...
Sketch of the gateway at Tank [Tonk] in the Punjab. The scene of the fatal accident to Sir H.M. Durand, K.C.S.I., &c., &c.
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Genre: Landscape Photography Chromolithograph showing the location of the accident, with important points marked. Durand was crushed against the lintel of the gate while riding in an elephant howdah. Subjects = Dunlop Smith Collection; lithographs; non-photographic material; paintings and dra...