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Mss Eur F222/48
- Record Id:
- 040-002288206
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002288153
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000880.0x000185
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F222/48
- Title:
- Glass negatives and lantern slides of miscellaneous Indian scenes including a man enacting the tiger legend at Moharram, and the tunnel entrance to a Hindu temple at Bedar, Hyderabad. Photographer: Edmund Henderson Hunt
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of 26 glass negatives and lantern slides, as follows:
1. Twelve monochrome lantern slides (unmounted) of Indian scenes: bazaars, Muhurram Festival, etc.
2. Eight ¼-plate glass negatives relating to the Rafai Fakirs, an Islamic sect in Hyderabad State. The views show the tomb at Hyderabad of the founder of the Rafai sect in India, and a number of views of their sacred books.
3. Two whole-plate glass negatives of a figure in the enactment of the Tiger Legend. A print of one of these negatives can be found at Mss Eur F222/37. The other negative is similar.
4. Two autochrome views of Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, Sri Lanka, in poor condition.
5. Two monochrome glass transparencies of the tunnel entrance to a Hindu temple at Bedar.
[Transferred to Prints, Drawings and Photographs]
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002288153
036-002288203
040-002288206 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F222 : Papers of Edmund Henderson Hunt, Chief Medical Officer, Nizam's State Railway, Hyderabad
Mss Eur F222/46-51 : Edmund Henderson Hunt, Chief Medical Officer, Nizam's State Railway: glass negatives and lantern slides
Mss Eur F222/48 : Glass negatives and lantern slides of miscellaneous Indian scenes including a man enacting the tiger legend at Moharram, and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002288153[0005]/036-002288203[0003]/040-002288206
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F222
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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26 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1920
- End Date:
- 1929
- Date Range:
- 1920s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hunt, Edmund Henderson, Dr, 1874-1952