Half-length portrait against a plain backdrop of a Koch man holding a thick-bladed agricultural knife. Precise location unknown, but probably from Cooch Behar (modern Koch Bihar).
[Portrait of an unidentified woman, Eastern Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
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Half-length portrait of an unidentified woman by an unknown photographer taken in the early 1860s. This print is one of a series of portrait studies of individuals and groups from Eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh and Assam).
Group of Bhooteas, Darjeeling Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length group of two couples in traditional dress. This print dates probably from the 1890s although the original photograph was taken by Bourne in the 1860s. The bottom left-hand corner of the glass plate, containing Bourne's signature, has been broken off...