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1. Photo 430

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430
Title:
Curzon Collection
Scope & Content:
Collection of eighty-nine albums and batches of prints recording the career of George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925), 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India 1899–1905. Elements Photo 430/1 141 prints Album, Eton photographs, 1876-78. Photo 430/2 94 prints Album, 'Afghan War 1878-7...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1904
Extent:
89 albums of photographic and other material

2. Photo 430/72

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/72
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Drawings'
Scope & Content:
Maroon full-leather bound album measuring 382x300mm, with title as above stamped in gold within decorative border. This scrap album contains a miscellaneous collection of engravings, fashion plates, lithographs and a few original sketches. The volume contains no photographic material and nothing...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1830s-1880s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 430/70

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/70
Title:
Curzon Collection: Album of snapshots. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Green cloth-covered album, 145x257mm, containing prints in window mounts with handwritten captions. The photographs are snapshots by a member of the viceregal party that toured India in 1902, possibly Evey Pelley, a friend of Mary Curzon, who accompanied the tour but does not appear in any phot...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 430/44

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/44
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Sirohi Views'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Red half-leather bound album album measuring 362x483mm, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover within decorative border. Label (part letterpress, part handwritten) pasted to front fixed endpaper reads: 'Presented with compliments to the Right Hon. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, G.C.S.I., ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 430/79

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/79
Title:
Curzon Collection: Delhi Durbar Photographs. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Collection of 399 loose prints, providing a comprehensive visual record of the Coronation Durbar held in Delhi between 29 December 1902 and 10 January 1903. The collection was originally assembled and numbered by Lord Curzon himself and his manuscript list is retained with the photographs. The o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1902-1903
Extent:
399 items

6. Photo 430/81

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/81
Title:
Curzon Collection: Miscellaneous loose photographs. Photographer(s): Roby, N.E.
Scope & Content:
Collection of 111 loose prints of Indian furniture and architecture. The collection be broken down as follows: Prints 1-4 Three prints of the copper shashana issued to the Cochin Jews and one view of the interior of the White Jews' Synagogue, Cochin, dated November 1900. Photographs by...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1884-1900s
Extent:
111 items

7. Photo 430/25

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/25
Title:
Curzon Collection: Views of Bikaner. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Maroon full leather bound album with decorative border in gold leaf, measuring 365x510mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions beneath. The album contains formal portrait groups, views of the palace and of relief work and projects in various parts of the state during the famine of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
57 items

8. Photo 430/32

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/32
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'Photographs. Dhar and Mandu'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Maroon diced full-leather album, 280x375mm, containing mounted prints with letterpress captions. The title is stamped in gold on the front cover and pages are interleaved with tissue. A handwritten label on the front free endpaper reads: 'Presented to His Excellency Lord Curzon by HH Udaji Rao P...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1902
Extent:
61 items

9. Photo 430/49

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/49
Title:
Curzon Collection: Views of the 'Dacca Shikar, Feb 1904'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Red half-leather album, 302x422mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. The photographs record the hunting trips undertaken by the viceregal party during Curzon's tour of Eastern Bengal in 1904. According to the itinerary for the tour (see Mss Eur F 112/473), the party camped 'on...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb1904
Extent:
60 items

10. Photo 430/48

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/48
Title:
Curzon Collection: 'The Abu Album, 1895-96'. Photographer(s): Herzog and Higgins
Scope & Content:
Maroon full-leather album, measuring 367 x 503 mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions and a letterpress introduction. Pages are interleaved with tissue and the title is stamped in gold on the front cover along with the photographer's name. A handwritten dedication on the front f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1895-1896
Extent:
1 item