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Call Number: |
PH-00315 |
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Collection Name: |
Marlborough Gems. Proofs. [Volume I] |
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Creator: |
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No. of Items: |
85 photographs in 1 bound album |
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Span Dates: |
1880s; 1903 |
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Description: |
Photographic album, bound in green leather, titled Marlborough Gems. Proofs. [Volume I]. The first page of the album is inscribed “F. C. Hue.” The album contains 85 photographs (78 albumen prints, 7 gelatin silver printing-out-paper prints) by various photographers that include: Orr & Barton of Bangalore (3), Baker & Burke (3), John Burke (2), W. Baker (1), Lala Deen Dayal (1), and Skeen & Co. (1). The photographs, which date to the 1880s, are views of architecture, monuments, rock cut temples, and daily life in various locales in India including: Agra (14), Delhi (12), Calcutta (6), Chamba (6), and Benares (a.k.a., Varanasi) (5). Laid into the album is Hue’s two-page handwritten inventory of all images in the album. Also laid into the album is a newspaper clipping from a 1903 edition of The Daily Telegraph (London, England) describing the author’s five-day excursion through India. |
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Location(s): |
f TR 655.11 H834 HRC-P (964:1025:0001-0085) |
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See Also: |
Marlborough Gems. Proofs. [Volume II] (f TR 655.11 H835 HRC-P) |
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