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Lot 93

NORTHERN INDIA
A collection of upwards of 280 views (and some "native types"), including views of Darjeeling and Himalayas (32), Lucknow (14), Allahabad (9), Benares (8), theatricals at Simla (48), Jaipur, Agra, Ceylon (2), etc.[c.1880-1906]; and album of India and Burma including Tibet Dead (collection)

3 December 2014, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,500 inc. premium

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NORTHERN INDIA AND TIBET

A collection of upwards of 280 views (and some "native types"), including views of Darjeeling and Himalayas (32), Lucknow (14), Allahabad (9), Benares (8), theatricals at Simla (48), Jaipur, Agra, Ceylon (2), etc., mostly albumen prints but including some 30 gelatin silver prints, approximately 150 larger images (c.210 x 280mm.), approximately 130 smaller (140 x 200mm., or smaller), mounted recto and verso in 4 albums, 2 disbound, others contemporary half morocco, worn, oblong folio, [c.1880-1906]; and a later album containing upwards of 100 images mostly relating to colonial life in Darjeeling and Burma, circa 1910-1922 (collection)

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Includes: Darjeeling and Himalayas (32, including "native types", mostly signed in the image by Thomas Paar; some of these with ink captions by the compiler); Lucknow and environs (approximately 30, mostly by Lawrie); Allahabad (9, including 4 of the Mela, 1906); Benares (8, 2 signed by Bourne & Shepherd), Simla (48, including an exterior view of the Gaiety Theatre and fine groups of the actors in character, a few cross-dressed); Jaipur, Agra, etc. An album of 1920s Colonial life images includes "the first aeroplane (Handley Page) to arrive in India just landing in Calcutta", and 4 photographic postcards of the Tibetan burial of the dead ("dead thrown to dogs", "skinning the dead", etc.).

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