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21. Photo 10/20

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/20
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Prince of Wales' visit to Delhi'.
Scope & Content:
Green cloth-bound album, 258x195mm, containing uncaptioned prints in window mounts. The album is untitled, the front cover having the manufacturer's gold-stamped sun motif and the word: 'Photographs'. A typed list inside provides headings for the various sets of prints. The album relates to the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1922
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 10/29

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/29
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Views of Mysore'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Ornate album with carved sandalwood measuring 313x410mm, prints mounted one to a page with letterpress captions and loose tissue interleaving. The album covers are made from finely carved sandalwood, with a scene in relief surrounded by a decorative floral border. The front cover shows the main ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s
Extent:
30 items

23. Photo 10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/23
Title:
Reading Collection: Visit to South India and Burma, 1923.
Scope & Content:
Loose prints grouped by subject. The photographs relate to Reading's visits to Madras, Mysore and Rangoon in 1923. There are also three prints on mounts removed from an album which depict hunting groups and the Marble Rocks at Bheraghat. Process = Gelatine prints Photographers = Lawrie, ; Ba...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
34 items

24. Photo 10/21

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/21
Title:
Reading Collection: Viceregal visit to Allahabad. Photographer(s): M. L. Vishwakarma and others,
Scope & Content:
Small leather album, 190x245mm, in a silk-embroidered protective cover. The album is untitled and the prints are mounted without captions. The prints depict the Viceroy and Lady Reading's visit to Allahabad on the 1st and 2nd of November 1923. Print 1 shows the interior of the railway station on...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1923
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 10/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/11
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Visit of Their Excellencies Lord & Lady Reading to Baroda January 1926'.
Scope & Content:
Black full leather bound album measuring 320x430mm, with title as above stamped in gold within decorative border beneath Baroda (modern Vadodara) State coat of arms. Prints are mounted on page within white ink borders and with captions, also in white ink, written in a florid cursive script bene...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
60 items

26. Photo 10/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/3
Title:
Reading Collection: 'His Excellency The Viceroy Lord Reading in Gwalior. Nov. 1922'.
Scope & Content:
Full leather bound album in green and black, measuring 252x300mm, with title as above stamped in gold within decorative border. Prints mounted on page with letterpress captions pasted beneath. Tissue interleaving between pages. Inscribed on front free endpaper: 'With most respectable [sic] and s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922
Extent:
50 items

27. Photo 10/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/2
Title:
Reading Collection: 'H.R.H. the Prince of Wales in Gwalior, 1922'.
Scope & Content:
Full leather album, 270x370mm, containing mounted prints with letterpress captions and some tissue interleaving. Gold stamped cover includes the title and a coat of arms. The inside front cover has a label which reads: 'Presented to the India Office Library by Lady Reading, 27 August 1958'. A sm...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1922
Extent:
72 items

28. Photo 10/31

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/31
Title:
Reading Collection: 'Journey of His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Reading, PC, GCB, GMSI, GMIE, GCVO, Viceroy & Governor General of India & the Countess of Reading CI, GBE, over the BB & CI Railway'.
Scope & Content:
Black full-leather album, 233x300mm, containing hand painted prints mounted with captions. Pages are interleaved with tissue and the title is stamped in gold on the front cover with a royal coat of arms. The first page in the album contains the timetable of the Reading's trip from 'Delhi Main to...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 10/9

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/9
Title:
Reading Collection: 'The visit of their Excellencies the Viceroy and the Countess of Reading to Jamnagar, November 1924'.
Scope & Content:
Black, full-leather album, 360x480mm, containing mounted uncaptioned prints. The title and coat of arms are stamped in gold on the front cover along with the sub-heading: 'Photoes [sic] by Joshi & Vara by Special Appointment to H.H. the Maharaja Jam Saheb of Jamnagar'. The inside front cove...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1924
Extent:
147 items

30. Photo 10/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 10/7
Title:
Reading Collection: 'H.E. Lord Reading's Visit to Hyderabad 1923. Presented by The Nizam.' Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Black full leather bound album measuring 320x410mm, with title as above stamped in gold within decorative border and royal coat of arms. The majority of prints mounted one to a page, with typescript label captions pasted beneath. The album records Lord Reading's visit to Hyderabad in late Novemb...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
65 items