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Mss Eur F171/55

Record Id:

040-002317808

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002317755

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000279.0x00029d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Mss Eur F171/55

Title:

Photograph album, Cashmere and Himala. Photographer(s): Samuel Bourne

Scope & Content:

Half-leather and cloth-bound album, measuring 377 x 310 mm, with contemporary red leather label laid down on front cover, reading Cashmere and Himala. Bookplate of James Abbott pasted down on front fixed endpaper. The volume contains 42 albumen prints by Samuel Bourne, tipped-in on corner slits, mainly comprising views of Simla, the Wanga and Sind Valleys and of Srinagar. There are an additional 14 loose prints of architecture and scenery in India, England and Canada. The album binding has been repaired and loose prints mounted in polyester sleeves in a separate post-bound folder.

Biographical note:

General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), Bengal Artillery 1823-77, Assistant Political Officer, Herat, 1839, Commissioner of Hazara, 1845-53, author and antiquarian. For portraits of Abbott, see Mss Eur F171/118.

[Transferred to Visual Arts]

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

India Office Private Papers

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002317755
036-002317806
040-002317808

Is part of:

Mss Eur F171 : Werge Thomas Collection: papers of Brig-Gen John Nicholson (1821-57), Bengal Army 1839-57, and other members of his family; of…
Mss Eur F171/54-56 : General Sir James Abbott, Bengal Artillery 1823-53: sketches and photographs

Mss Eur F171/55 : Photograph album, Cashmere and Himala. Photographer(s): Samuel Bourne

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002317755[0005]/036-002317806[0002]/040-002317808

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

-9999

End Date:

-9999

Date Range:

1860s

Era:

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Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bourne, Samuel, photographer, 1834-1912

Places:

Jammu and Kashmir, India
Srinagar (J.K.), Jammu and Kashmir, India