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Photo 1/2

Record Id:

040-003035981

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003035884

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025642078.0x001230

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1/2

Title:

Wilberforce-Bell Collection: 'Album presented to Lt. Col. H. Wilberforce-Bell...by the ruler of Bhor when the Agent came to Bhor to open the Laxmibai Bridge over the River Nira...on the 20th June 1933, after the transfer of the Deccan States...' Photographer(s): Unknown

Scope & Content:

Leather bound album, measuring 325 x 405 mm, contained in a blue box. Both the box lid and the album cover carry the coat of arms of the ruler of Bhor, inscribed with motto, 'In him I trust, Raghunathrao S....Chief of Bhor'. Title and coat of arms are in gold lettering. The inside front cover contains Wilberforce-Bell's bookplate and a label reading, 'Bound at the Caxton Works, Bombay'. Photographs are mounted with letterpress captions and interleaved with tissue.

Album has now been re-boxed. Original buckram cover of box removed and retained.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003035884
040-003035981

Is part of:

Photo 1 : Wilberforce-Bell Collection: synopsis. Photographer(s): Herzog and Higgins

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Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003035884[0002]/040-003035981

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

24 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1933

End Date:

1933

Date Range:

1933

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 210 mm x 296 mm to 290 mm x 239 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by the executors of Sir Harold Wilberforce-Bell, October 1965, via Messrs Parker, Marsh, Charlton and Eastham.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known