Description: |
Twelve stereographs published by Underwood & Underwood (London and New York) from their series "Elephants," and the original storage case. Each curved card includes a title and brief description printed on the recto, as well as a longer narrative description on the verso. Titles follow.
958:0266:0001 -- An Elephant Siesta- basking in the sun in their beautiful native home, Interior Ceylon; 958:0266:0002 -- Elephant carrying half-ton Kitual Palm log; 958:0266:0003 -- Elephant and his keeper- showing former method of executing criminals; 958:0266:0004 -- Valley of paddy fields, and charming hill-sides, of Ceylon- huge tame Elephant and keeper; 958:0266:0005 -- Native farming in tropical Ceylon- plowing a paddy field; 958:0266:0006 -- Elephant in the timber yard- hauling and lifting; 958:0266:0007 -- Tame elephants breaking down timber in Stockade after “drive in"; 958:0266:0008 -- Above the hed of Wild Elephants in side the Stockade; 958:0266:0009 -- A tethered captive in a frenzy of rage; 958:0266:0010 -- In the stockade, after 60 elephants had “broken out"; 958:0266:0011 -- An elephant mother six months after capture, and her babe one month old- Ceylon; 958:0266:0012 -- The fabulous wealth of India- native Princes in the Grand State Entry. |