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INDIA - KASHMIR AND NORTHWEST FRONTIER - PHOTOGRAPHY
BAKER (WILLIAM), JOHN BURKE AND OTHERS. Album of views, and portrait groups of the North West Frontier, Punjab and northern India, [1870s]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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INDIA - KASHMIR AND NORTHWEST FRONTIER - PHOTOGRAPHY

BAKER (WILLIAM), JOHN BURKE AND OTHERS. Album of views, and portrait groups of the North West Frontier, Punjab and northern India, 48 albumen prints by W. Baker (10 signed with numeral in negative), Baker and Burke (2 signed in negative, a number of others identifiable, or attributable to them), Bourne and Shepherd (one signed), and others, mounted one per page recto and verso, images typically 295 x 240mm., a few smaller (2 half-page), early half morocco, worn, folio, [1870s]

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A good album including views, mostly by Baker and Burke, including Srinigar (Dhul Canal, Akbar's Bridge, river scenes, Nautch girl's bungalow), temple ruins in Kashmir, mountain views, and Attock. Other scenes include Poona (2), Bombay (4), Lord Lytton's camp and scenes at Delhi (3, 1877). Groups include Nautch girls and musicians, series of 5 good Indian troops captioned (in pencil) "First Sikhs, Corps of Guides", "Persians", "Punjabi Hindoos", "Afghans", and "[?Sikh] Corps of Guides", and several British officers with local chiefs.

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