Photo 2/9

Brown full leather bound album (spine weak), measuring 275 x 375 mm, with title as above stamped on cover in gold with decorative design featuring a tiger beneath a palm tree. Prints are mounted on album pages with letterpress captions pasted beneath. The album contains a number of good quality architectural views (of both Indian and British buildings) in Bangalore, Mysore and Seringapatam (modern Shrirangapattana), as well as an extensive documentation of the elephant keddah at the hamlet of Kakankote on the Kabbani River some fifty miles from Mysore, attended by the Viceroy Lord Elgin from 23-28 November 1895. Newspapers cuttings relating to the Viceroy's visit to the kheddah can be found in Photo 15/4, which also contains a photograph of a model showing the layout of the kheddah. A number of the general kheddah and elephant transportation scenes were probably taken on other occasions. Print 127, for instance, includes a portrait of George P. Sanderson, the officer in charge of the Mysore kheddahs. The last entry for Sanderson in Thacker's Directory is in the 1892 edition, and he probably died around this time. He was certainly dead by 1895, and the caption to the print refers to him as the 'late' Mr Sanderson. Sanderson's 'Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India' (London, 1878), gives a detailed account of kheddah operations in Mysore.

Duplicates of many of the prints in this album can also be found in Photo 430/41.