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Description: | Photographs collected during WVR Fane's visit to India, Burma, Japan and Canada.
Includes images of:
Suez canal, Lahore, Amritsar, Khyber Pass, sites in and near Delhi, Jeypore, Gwalior, sites near Agra including the Taj Mahal, Benares, Rangoon, Mandalay, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai; tinted photos of Takaboko, Nagasaki, views near Kobi and Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, Fujiyama (Mount Fuji), Tokyo, Nikko; untinted views of Chuzengi, Umoto sulphur springs, Victoria in British Columbia, Vancouver, views along the Canadian Pacific Railway, Niagara, views near Montreal, Ottawa and views near Quebec.
Also contains 2 studio photos of a 'Burmese Lady' and 'Shan Girl' and 4 tinted studio shots of a Japanese lady, a 'Jinrikisha' - Japanese lady in a rickshaw with a man ready to pull it, Buddhist priests and a Shinto priest.
WVR Fane's travel journal about this trip (see 9-FANE/1/1/3/2/2) includes 2 mentions of visits to the shop of "Beato (curiosity dealer)" in Mandalay on 10 and 13 March 1893, as well as the payment of £79 for "curios at Beato's" on 13 March. These references relate to the photographer Felice Beato. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 1892-1893 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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