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Photo 869
- Record Id:
- 032-003123141
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003123141
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026100107.0x00076f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 869
- Title:
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Shearer Collection: Two portraits.
- Scope & Content:
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Two loose unmounted prints, both captioned on the verso, from the collection of John Burt Shearer, Indian Civil Service.
Print 1. Government of India Finance Department at New Delhi, 1933.
Print 2. Group of Black Hearts, probably at Simla, 1933.
The photographs are accompanied by various items of ephemera including a programme for an investiture by Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency (Governor of the Punjab), 'Interpretation' exam results and certificate of J.B. Shearer, an Urdu translation of a speech given by the Nawab of Pataudi, copy of speech made by Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency at the installation of the same Nawab, a Bombay Congress Bulletin of October 1942, and a programme and menu from the first reunion dinner in 1935 of the 'Order of the Black Heart'.
Process = Gelatin silver prints
Photographers = 1) Photo Service Co, Delhi. 2) Unknown.;
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003123141", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Photo 869: Shearer Collection: Two portraits." },{ "id" : "040-003123142", "parent" : "032-003123141", "text" : "Photo 869(1): [Group portrait] Finance Dept, Dec 1933. Photographer: Photo Service Co" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003123143", "parent" : "032-003123141", "text" : "Photo 869(2): [Group portrait] Black Hearts, Sept 1933. Photographer: Unknown" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003123141
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Photo 869(1) : [Group portrait] Finance Dept, Dec 1933. Photographer: Photo Service Co
Photo 869(2) : [Group portrait] Black Hearts, Sept 1933. Photographer: Unknown
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Photo 869 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003123141
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 869
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1933
- End Date:
- 1933
- Date Range:
- 1933
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 195 mm x 277 mm to 236 mm x 297 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Presented by Mrs Anne Shearer, 1992.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known