Photo 218

Album (rebound in modern red buckram post-binding) measuring 281x410mm, with print pasted down onto page. Prints 138-47 are loosely inserted at end of album. The majority are lightly captioned in pencil in a contemporary hand. Although unsigned many of the views and cartes de visite sized prints are probably the work of the Madras photographer Nicholas & Co (print 35, is duplicated at Photo 394 (78) and there stamped 'Nicholas Bros.'). The majority of views appear to date from the 1870s, although the Hooper & Western prints (65-6) may have been made in the late 1860s.

The album can be broken down into the following subjects:

Prints 1-14 Egypt, Suez Canal, Aden.

Print 15-67 Madras, Guindy and surrounding areas: topographical views, ethnographical studies, etc.

Prints 68-76 Egypt, mainly Alexandria.

Prints 77-84 Gwalior and unidentified Indian views.

Prints 85-137 Views in France and Scotland: not individually listed.

Print 138-46 Loose prints, mainly duplicates of material in album.

[Unnumbered] Three small pencil sketches of little merit of Madras scenes.