
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)
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NORTHERN INDIA AND TIBET
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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.).