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Photo 891
- Record Id:
- 032-003124080
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003124080
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026100107.0x000b1a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 891
- Title:
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Album of views of India.
- Scope & Content:
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Brown mock-leather post-bound album, 166x238mm, containing amatuer snapshot and commecially produced prints mounted several to a page with handwritten captions. Pages are interleaved with tissue and nineteen loose prints are inserted at the back of the album.
The photographs are topographical and architectural views at the following locations: Hyderabad (Hospital, Char Minar), Kasauli (Christ Church), Ranchi (Jonah Falls), Suez Canal, Ismailiya, Howrah (Bridge and Railway Station), Calcutta (Victoria Memorial, St Paul's Cathedral, Metro Cinema, GPO, Chowringhee), Secunderabad, Bombay, Ranikhet, Poona, Madras (Moore Market, Mount Road, University, Casino Cinema, YMCA, Railway Station, Napier Bridge), Himalayas, Kangra Railway, Simla Railway, Agra (Taj Mahal), Jullunder (Church, post office, cantonment cinema), Amritsar (Golden Temple), Lahore (Punjab Assembly Hall, Badshahi Masjid, Jahangir's tomb, Railway Station, Shalimar Gardens), and Jhansi.
Process = Gelatine silver prints
Photographers = W.A. Whitbread and various others unknown., ;
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003124080", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Photo 891: Album of views of India." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003124080
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003124080
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1944
- End Date:
- 1946
- Date Range:
- c 1945-1947
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Appointment Required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 52 mm x 81 mm to 70 mm x 115 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Donated by W A Whitbread, August 1993.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known