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Photo 1000/46(4642)
- Record Id:
- 041-003131334
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003131322
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026192635.0x001229
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147614627.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1000/46(4642)
- Title:
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Group of pupils of the Juggunath Shankarset Girls' School, Bombay. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
Group posed on verandah. Letterpress caption above main caption reads 'Student's Literary & Scientific Society, founded 1848. President Dr Bhau Daji.' '...The Students' Literary and Scientific Society, which supported nine vernacular free schools for girls, attended by 654 pupils, of whom 136 were Marathi-speaking Hindus, 120 Gujarati Hindus and 398 Parsis...The formation of this society was promoted by Professor Patton of the Elphonstone College in 1848. It was intended by the student and assistant teachers of the Elphinstone Institution to be a mutual improvement society and to aid the dissemination of knowledge by means of vernacular lectures and the publication of cheap periodicals in the vernacular languages...' (S.M. Edwardes, The Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island (3 vols, Bombay, 1909-10), vol. 3, p. 108. Print probably shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003126686
040-003131322
041-003131334 - Is part of:
- Photo 1000 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series
Photo 1000/46 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series (Volume 46).
Photo 1000/46(4642) : Group of pupils of the Juggunath Shankarset Girls' School, Bombay. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003126686[0045]/040-003131322[0012]/041-003131334
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1000
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147614627.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1872
- End Date:
- 1874
- Date Range:
- c 1873
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 194 mm x 244 mm
Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)