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Green full leather-bound album measuring 310 x 390 mm, with title (as above) stamped in gold within decorative design on front cover; metal clasp. A label on the inside back cover reads, 'Bound at Education Society Press, Byculla'. The Prints are mounted on light yellow album pages, with neatly written captions and negative number beneath each photograph. An inscription in the same hand (probably Deen Dayal's) on the last page of the album reads, 'Deen Diyal Amateur Photographer. Employed as Estimator in P. W. Secretariat C. I., Indore. 1st Septr. 1883.'

The album contains architectural and landscape studies in various parts Central India, the most significant locations being the Buddhist stupa at Sanchi (1-17), the temple complex at Khajuraho (33-44), Orchha (55-59), Jhansi (60-62), Gwalior (70-85), Mandu (91-9), Indore (97-103) and Bhopal (104-108). The majority of the photographs appear to have been taken in the course of a tour made by Sir Lepel Griffin and many and subsequently reproduced in his 'Famous Monuments of Central India' (London, [1886]). References to relevant illustrations in Griffin are noted in the print listing. A number of prints with lower negative numbers may be of earlier date.