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Photo 899/2

Record Id:

040-003124895

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003124846

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026100107.0x000e49

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 899/2

Title:

Sir James David Sifton Collection: The Earthquake of the 15th January 1934 in Bihar and Nepal

Scope & Content:

Red cloth album measuring 241x328mm, with title as above stamped in gold on front cover, and photographers' names in bottom right-hand corner, from the collection of Sir James Sifton. Prints are mounted two to a page (recto only), with neat handwritten captions beneath each image. The album contains views of buildings and bridges damaged in the earthquake which struck Nepal and Bihar in 1934, together with more general photographs of land fissures, sand vents, etc., created by the earthquake. It is not known which of the three listed figures took which of the photographs, and all the images have been provisionally listed as photographs by J.A. Dunn in the print catalogue.

Sir James David Sifton (1878-1952), entered the Indian Civil Service in 1902. He served as Governor of Bihar and Orissa 1932-36 and Governor of Bihar 1936-37.

Photographers = J.A. Dunn, J.B. Auden;

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003124846
040-003124895

Is part of:

Photo 899 : Sir James David Sifton Collections: Photographs relating to his career in India.

Photo 899/2 : Sir James David Sifton Collection: The Earthquake of the 15th January 1934 in Bihar and Nepal

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003124846[0002]/040-003124895

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

58 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1934

End Date:

1934

Date Range:

1934

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 101 mm x 76 mm to 122 mm x 201 mm

Source of Acquisition:

November 1993

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known