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Description: | The front cover has the inscription "Bourne & Shepperd Photographers India" (sic).
Written inside: "Gen. Walter Fane's Photograph book given to WVR Fane Nov 1912".
Many photographs were taken in India (views, group shots, cricket matches, etc.) but the album also includes some shots of houses in Britain (including Fulbeck, Rauceby and Doddington), posed theatrical 'tableaux', and views in the United States of America, France, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Japan.
Some studio portraits are also included, and show family, friends and colleagues, as well as the Amir of Cabul; Atta Sing, bodyguard to Ranjit Singh; a "Pahari Girl" and the last King of Delhi. Includes several tinted photos of Japanese subjects.
Several prints include names of photographers: W[illiam] Baker, [Samuel] Bourne, J[ohn] Thomson.
Enclosures: loose photos, including mounted photograph of named Sikh army officers. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | c1860s | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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