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Full leather bound album measuring 352x500mm, decorated with blind tooling, and with initials 'A.P.' stamped in gold in centre of front cover. The album is numbered '2' on the front cover. The album is contained in a card slipcase. Prints are mounted several to a page, with handwritten captions and identifications in ink beneath each image. The album contains a very varied selection of material, ranging from small personal snapshots of limited interest and value, to larger format views and portraits by commercial photographers. The prints have been catalogued selectively, the amateur work of lesser interest and quality listed in batch entries.

Major General Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons (1884-1966) entered The Sherwood Foresters in 1906 and the 52nd Sikhs Frontier Force in 1908. He joined the Indian Political Department in 1919 and served in the Third Afghan War 1919 and the Waziristan Operations of 1921-22. From 1936-39 he was Agent to the Governor General, Baluchistan, in the latter year also serving as Acting Governor, North-West Frontier Province. He served at GHQ, Middle East from 1943-44.

Process = Gelatine silver prints and other processes

Photographers = Various, including R.B. Holmes and G.S. Prem Singh. Amateur snapshots presumably by Parsons;