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Photo 430/70
- Record Id:
- 040-003085844
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003085844
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025862941.0x001237
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 430/70
- Title:
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Curzon Collection: Album of snapshots. Photographer(s): Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Green cloth-covered album, 145x257mm, containing prints in window mounts with handwritten captions. The photographs are snapshots by a member of the viceregal party that toured India in 1902, possibly Evey Pelley, a friend of Mary Curzon, who accompanied the tour but does not appear in any photographs. They record various official functions and more informal moments with the Curzon family and entourage. Print 1 Breakfast at Nowshera, April. Print 2 Crossing the Kabul River on trolleys on way to Dargai, 22 April. Prints 3-4 Arrival at Dargai and group of Maliks, 22 April. Prints 5-6 Views of Malakand Fort. Prints 7-8 Groups at Malakand including General Bindon Blood. Prints 9-10 Views of Malakand Fort. Prints 11-15 Visiting Chakdara and Khar camp from Malakand, 23 April. Prints 16-20 Views of Peshawar from a carriage in the procession, 24 April. Prints 21-44 Visiting the Khyber Pass, 27-28 April, including Jamrud Fort, Fort Maud, Ali Masjid and Landi Kotal, with views of military ceremonies including Major Roos Keppel. Prints 45-69 Visit to Hyderabad, 29 March to 14 April, including: Government House; rocks at Golconda; shikar views including elephants, dead tigers, machans and camp scenes; the Lungur Procession. Prints 70-79 Snapshots of Cynthia and Irene Curzon playing with puppies at Naldera, June. Print 80 Group having lunch under a canopy in the shade of a banyan at Barakpur. Prints 81-86 Informal portraits of the Curzons, friends and colleagues at Mashobra. Prints 87-98 Informal portraits of Mary Curzon and others in Gulmarg, August.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-003085844", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Photo 430/70: Curzon Collection: Album of snapshots. Photographer(s): Unknown" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003082259
040-003085844 - Is part of:
- Photo 430 : Curzon Collection
Photo 430/70 : Curzon Collection: Album of snapshots. Photographer(s): Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003082259[0070]/040-003085844
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 430
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1902
- End Date:
- 1902
- Date Range:
- 1902
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 80 mm x 80 mm to 180 mm x 57 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Transferred from OIOC European Manuscripts Section, 1985.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known