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Photo 296/2

Record Id:

040-003060335

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003060263

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025712784.0x000334

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 296/2

Title:

Sir Alexander Mackenzie Collection: 'Earthquake Views, 1897'. Photographer: Fritz Kapp

Scope & Content:

Brown half-leather album, measuring 368 mm x 480 mm, containing 51 mounted prints with handwritten captions; title stamped in gilt on front cover and with the photographer's address label pasted opposite Print 1. The prints depict buildings, railway lines, etc, destroyed or damaged in the earthquake that hit Eastern India in 1897. The photographs are of Calcutta, Darjeeling, Shillong, Gauhati and at various points on the Assam Bengal Railway and the Eastern Bengal State Railway.

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1842-1902) entered the Indian Civil Service in 1862 and was appointed Chief Commissioner of Burma in 1890. From 1895-98 he served at Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003060263
040-003060335

Is part of:

Photo 296 : Sir Alexander Mackenzie Collection: Photographs of India and Burma. Photographer(s): Beato, Felice

Photo 296/2 : Sir Alexander Mackenzie Collection: 'Earthquake Views, 1897'. Photographer: Fritz Kapp

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003060263[0002]/040-003060335

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

51 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1897

End Date:

1897

Date Range:

1897

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 98 mm x 142 mm to 233 mm x 296 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by Sir Basil Todd-Jones.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Kapp, Fritz

Subjects:

Earthquakes

Places:

Assam, India, Asia
Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Asia
Gauhati, Guwahati, Assam, India, Asia, South Asia
Shillong, India