Agra. (The Monument of Monuments). [Taj Mahal.] Photographer: Frith's Series
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Inscription: Drystamped Frith Series at bottom left of print. Visited by the compiler of this album between 4th and 8th March 1878. View of the Taj from the east, with the river Yamuna on the right side.
Ambere [Amber]. Glass Room of Palace [Sheesh Mahal]. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne & Shepherd 2317 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album between 14th and 18th March, 1878. View of the interior of the Sheesh Mahal.
Umritsur [Amritsar]. Babatul temple. Flying foxes in the Trees. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Numbered 410 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 25th March, 1878. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Babatul Golden Temple, Flying-foxes in tree.'
[Vishnu Temple at Bhaniar, Jammu and Kashmir.] Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Signed Bourne in the negative. Kashmir was visited by the compiler of this album between 3 April and 30 November, 1878. Exterior view from the north of the Vishnu Temple at Bhaniar, looking towards the entrance gateway and perimeter wall. Unnumbered in the negative, but identified as no. 999 in...
Scinde Valley. On the Road from Kashmir to Ladak. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Signed Bourne in the negative; unnumbered. Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. View looking upstream along the river, with cliffs and steep wooded hills rising on either side.
Scinde Valley. On the Road from Kashmir to Ladak. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Signed Bourne in the negative; unnumbered. Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. View looking upstream along the Sind River, with cliffs and wooded hills rising steeply on either side of the stream.
Railway over the [Western] Ghats. G. I. P. R. Reversing Station [Bhor Ghat Incline]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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View looking along the line at the reversing station on the Bhor Ghat Incline, with an Indian figure posed in the foreground (back to camera). In the left background is the sheer rock outcrop known as The Duke's Nose.
Ceylon. Colombo [sic, for Galle] Harbour [visited November 27th-30th and December 10th-13th 1877]. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
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View across the harbour at Galle, with shipping at anchor in the bay. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Skeen and Co.