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Genre: Historical Events Half-length portrait of William C. Hopkinson, wearing the uniform of an immigration inspector, photographed on board a vessel at Vancouver. Hopkinson had previously been a police inspector in Calcutta, but when this photograph was taken he had for some years been employ...
[Prison portrait of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bombay.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, wearing a suit and seated in front of a plain backdrop. This prison identification photograph was taken in Bombay at the time of his trial for abetment to murder, sedition and 'conspiring to wage war on the king.' Sav...
[Prison portrait of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bombay.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length full-face prison identification photograph of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, wearing a suit and seated with arms crossed, taken on the same occasion as print 6a.
Special immigration officers going on duty, S. S. 'Sea Lion.' Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Showing a group of immigration officials, armed with rifles, marching along a jetty in Vancouver harbour at the time of the 'Komagata Maru' incident, with the tug 'Sea Lion' moored on the left.
Floral offerings [funeral of William C. Hopkinson, Vancouver]. Photographer: Thomson, Stuart
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Genre: Historical Events View looking down onto an open carriage filled with floral tributes outside the police station, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers.
Bringing out casket [funeral of William C. Hopkinson, Vancouver]. Photographer: Thomson, Stuart
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Genre: Historical Events View in the street, with mourners gathered around the casket being carried out from the police station. The pall-bearers are identified on the reverse: Immigration Inspector Deuce; Charles Bonner (Mayor's Secretary); B. J. Reid (Immigration Agent's Inspector); Malcolm M...