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Photo 431/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003087426
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003087424
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025866177.0x000003
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 431/1
- Title:
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Vicount Goschen Collection: Album of miscellaneous snapshots relating to his period as Governor of Madras. Photographer(s): Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Black cloth-covered album, 220x275mm, containing prints mounted four to a page and captions written in white ink. The photographs are mostly informal family portraits and other groups, taken during various tours of India. Contents as follows:
1-10. On board the Madura, April 1924. Family portraits.
11-35. Miscellaneous views at Ootacamund, May-June 1924, including: playing table tennis, portraits, picnic scene, Lady Goschen sketching, at the stables, tennis party, elephants.
36-41. Flood area, July 1924, showing damaged bridge.
42-43. MEBP [?] on Goschen's winning horse and a portrait of him with Their Excellencies.
44-56. Ooty Hunt, August 1924.
57 The Residency, Bangalore.
58-61. Fishing Camp, September 1924.
62-68. On tour to Delhi, October 1924. Visiting Sanchi Tope and the Qutb Minar.
69-77. Views in Malabar including crocodile shoot.
78-89. Ootacamund, October-December 1924, including picnic, fishing, Todas.
90-96. Madras, December 1924, including the Bishop of Madras, at the Yacht Club and children's party at Government House.
97-98. Ootacamund, January 1925, portraits.
99-101. At Mamallapuram with Lady Cynthia Mosley, wife of Sir Oswald and daughter of Lord Curzon.
102. Group at Ootacamund.
103-104. Battleship in port, Madras?
105-122. Madras, February 1925. Groups including Princess Arthur of Connaught, dhobis, Hindu festival.
123-162. Ootacamund, April-August 1925. Miscellaneous views and portraits including the stables, Hunt, races, four-in-hand, the Muharram, the Shea family.
163-165.West Coast Tour, October 1925, including a snake boat and Cape Comorin.
166-169. Family portraits, Madras, November 1925.
170-181. Calcutta Tour, November-December 1925. Views at Darjiling including Lady Goschen sketching, Government House, portraits, lamas.
182-185. Miscellaneous views at Calcutta.
George Joachim Goschen (1866-1952), 2nd Viscount Goschen, politician and MP; Governor of Madras 1924-29; acting Viceroy of India 1929-31.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003087424
040-003087426 - Is part of:
- Photo 431 : Viscount Goschen Collection: Photographs relating to his period as Governor of Madras and acting Viceroy of India.
Photo 431/1 : Vicount Goschen Collection: Album of miscellaneous snapshots relating to his period as Governor of Madras. Photographer(s): Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003087424[0002]/040-003087426
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 431
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print - Start Date:
- 1924
- End Date:
- 1925
- Date Range:
- 1924-1925
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 98 mm x 61 mm to 108 mm x 148 mm
- Source of Acquisition:
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Presented by the Portal family.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known