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Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(7)
Title:: Hyat Buksh [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the driveway towards the two-storey house, the residence of the Chief Commissioner: 'This house was built by Nawab Saadut Ali Khan, and was, during the reign of Nuseer-ud-deen Hyder, occupied by Colonel Roberts of the Oudh Service. Upon annexa...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(8)
Title:: Darul-shafa [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the large, single-storied bungalow, with a verandah running along the outside: 'This house, as its name implies, is a Hospital or Dispensary, which was built by Newab Saadut Ali Khan, and was intended for the reception of the indigent sick, but w...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010056.i.4(9)
Title:: Offices of the Oudh & Rohelcund Ry. Co. [Lucknow]. Photographer: Abbas Ali
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the driveway of the imposing two-storey pedimented building, housing the offices of the railway company.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010057.k.13
Title:: The gates of Thibet. A bird's eye view of independent Sikkhim, British Bhootan and the Dooars as a Doorga Poojah trip.
Scope & Content:: Imprint: Calcutta: printed & published at the Catholic Orphan Press, 3-4, Portuguese Church Street, 1894.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56
Title:: Teneriffe, an astronomer's experiment: or, specialities of a residence above the clouds. By C. Piazzi Smyth, F.R.S.S. L. & E., F.R.A.S. ...Illustrated with photo-stereographs. Photographer(s): Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Imprint: London: Lovell Reeve, 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 1858. Octavo, measuring 192 x 140 mm, bound in maroon patterned cloth, with a design of a telescope (based on print 5) in gilt on upper board; xvi, 451, [2], 23, [1], 15, [5]p., map; with 20 stereoscopic double views by Smyth r...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 20 items

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(1)
Title:: Culminating point of the peak of Teneriffe, 12,198 feet high, showing the interior of the terminal crater of the mountain. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Frontispiece. Stereographic view, showing figures posed among the rocks of the peak: 'Yet wait my friends, said I, one moment more; allow me only another photograph; for these sulphurous exhalations of the ground, have spoilt nearly all my plates today. So Don Mart...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(10)
Title:: Specimen of the Malpays of black lava, near Alta Vista. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view of lava mounds, facing p. 125.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(11)
Title:: Close view of Alta Vista observing station, from the east − altitude 10,702 feet. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 283, looking towards the low stone buildings of the observing station, with a telescope visible on the left behind the wall, and a large block of lava in the foreground. The station is described at pp. 284-285.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(12)
Title:: Alta Vista Observatory, from the northern lava ridge. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 303, looking down onto the stone buildings of the observing station, with the telescope visible.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 010095.de.56(13)
Title:: Entrance to the ice cavern, in the Malpays of the peak of Teneriffe, at the height of 11,040 feet. Photographer: Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view, facing p. 321, looking towards the mouth of the cave, set among lava masses. See pp. 351 and 363.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 item

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