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ALLAHABAD, DARJEELING, AND FAKIRS Album containing 31 photographs, [c.1900]; and 3 other albums (4) image 1
ALLAHABAD, DARJEELING, AND FAKIRS Album containing 31 photographs, [c.1900]; and 3 other albums (4) image 2
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ALLAHABAD, DARJEELING, AND FAKIRS
Album containing 31 photographs, [c.1900]; and 3 other albums (4)

3 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ALLAHABAD, DARJEELING, AND FAKIRS

Album containing 31 photographs, platinum, gelatin silver and albumen prints, captioned below in ink and some credited in negative, images approximately 200 x 290mm., contemporary cloth, oblong 4to, [c.1900]; and 3 other albums (4)

Footnotes

The album relates to Harrison Falkner Blair, Judge of the High Court of Allahabad. Images include: "Divinity Dance by Lamas", "Buddhist Magicians" and a hot air balloon on fire, by T. Parr of Darjeeling; studies of fakirs including one sat on a bed of nails, by T.A. Rust (5); Ceylon (8); the 1903 Delhi Durbar (5); groups including the Judges of the High Court (5). Justice Blair married Cornelia Sorabji, pioneering Indian lawyer and social reformer.

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