Portrait of the Revd. Charles Hudson. Photographer: Unknown
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Full-length seated carte-de-visite portrait of Revd. Charles Hudson (1828-1865), Vicar of Shillington, Lincs 1859-65. Regarded as the best amateur alpinist of his time, he organised the party that ascended Mont Blanc without guides in 1855 and was killed in a fall while descending the Matterhorn...
Photographs of Swiss mountain scenery. Photographer: Mummery, Albert Frederick
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Eight snapshots of Swiss mountain scenery, originally contained in an envelope inscribed 'The only photographs (summer of 1894) Mummery ever took. J.W. Collie.' This presumably refers to the businessman and mountaineer Albert Frederick Mummery, who died on Nanga Parbat in the following year. All...
Snapshot views of India and Ceylon. Photographer: Blakeney, Thomas Sydney
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Snapshots, mainly of architectural subjects in India and Sri Lanka. Locations include Taxila (Archaeological Survey of India photograph, 1932-33 seaon), Madurai,Tirumavallai, Cape Comorin, Anuradhapura.
Snapshot views of the Andaman islands. Photographer: Blakeney, Thomas Sydney
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Snapshot views, captioned on the reverse, of scenes in the Andaman Islands, including the Circular prison at Port Blair, other buildings and portraits of Anadaman Islanders.