The inside of Bailie Guard [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the Baillie Guard Gate, looking across the garden towards the ruins of the Residency (right background), with the monument to Sir Henry Lawrence and mutiny heroes on the knoll on the left.
Niel's [sic for Neill's] Gate [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the arched gateway, the Sher Darwaza, the site of the death of Brigadier General James Neill in September 1857. The gateway was preserved as a memorial and became better known to the British as Neill's Gateway. Abbas Ali comments: 'To mark the sp...
Gate of the Great Imambara of Nawab Assuf-ood-daulah [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the road leading to the Rumi Darwaza, with the gateway of the Bara Imambara (also known as the Asafi Imambara) in the left foreground, with its facsimile gateway opposite: 'It has been the practice of Mohumedan potentates to provide, before th...
Offices of the Oudh & Rohelcund Ry. Co. [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the driveway of the imposing two-storey pedimented building, housing the offices of the railway company.