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Photo 523/2

Record Id:

040-003098106

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003097830

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025910660.0x000788

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 523/2

Title:

Album of Kashmir views. Photographer(s): Unknown

Scope & Content:

Black soft-covered photograph album with tie binding and tissue interleaving between pages, measuring 320x412mm. Prints are pasted down on pages with brief pencilled captions written beneath.

The contents of this album, the work of an unknown compiler, can broken down into the following subjects and/or locations:

Prints 1-82 Views taken on trek from Manali to Lahul (Himachal Pradesh). Topographical views and portraits of local people at Manali, the Rohtang Pass, Khoksar, Gundhla, Kyelang.

Prints 83-143 Views at Srinagar and Pampur.

Prints 144-56 Views of the Surya Temple at Martand.

Prints 157-87 Views at Pampur, mainly of the saffron harvest and processing.

Prints 188-91 Views at Gulmarg.

Prints 192-98 Enlarged versions of material from prints 1-82.

Prints 200-04 Landscape views by Sheraton Southern, 1942.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003097830
040-003098106

Is part of:

Photo 523 : Photographs of India, principally of Kashmir and Kulu. Photographer(s): Unknown

Photo 523/2 : Album of Kashmir views. Photographer(s): Unknown

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003097830[0002]/040-003098106

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

204 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1940

End Date:

1949

Date Range:

1940s

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 100 mm x 85 mm to 199 mm x 253 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Deposited by Imperial War Museum

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known