Scinde Valley. Glaciers near Sonamurg [Sonamarg]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Signed Bourne in the negative. Kashmir and Ladakh visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Unnumbered, but probably no. 906 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'Valley and glaciers near Sonamurg.' View looking across the wooded valley towards the glacier below the summi...
My Indian Trophies. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Full-length portrait of Charles James Lucas (1853-1928), the compiler of this album, seated in front of his tent with a large collection of animal heads, in the garden of the Apcar's house in Calcutta. Lucas describes this photographic session in a diary letter to his parents: '27 Decr. Up at da...
Japanese restaurant in European style. Photographer: Unknown
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Numbered 624 in the negative. Studio tableau of a Japanese man seated at a table and being attended to by a waiter, both dressed in European clothes. The pair are surrounded by European furniture and a painting.
[Japanese couple at their leisure.] Photographer: Unknown
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Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 441 in the negative. Studio tableau of a young Japanese woman, seated with tea-making impedimenta around her, handing a pipe to a male figure who sits behind her, shielded by a linen mosquito net.
Plan du Canal de Suez. Plane [sic] of the Suez Canal. Photographer: Arnoux, Hippolyte
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Photographic copy of a map of the Suez Canal, with views on the canal and portraits of those involved, including the Khedive and Ferdinand de Lesseps. Faded print.