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A brief historical memoir of Delhi and guide to points of interest together with the official programme in detail of the Imperial Coronation Durbar of 1911
Leather-bound booklet, measuring 6¾ x 8 inches, of 153 pages, illustrated by photographs stuck in. The majority of the photographs are by Johnston and Hoffman.
A journey to Asia and Africa
'Adventures of a rubber-neck'
Articles from 'The Field'
Astronomical calculations in Asia
Calculations made during Clementi's journey through India, Tibet and China, 1907-1908.
Bombay photographs
Sepia prints on mounts. Their appearance suggests that cardboard frames, originally stuck down surrounding the photograph, have been crudely removed. The prints are interesting reflections of British social life and were the property of the grandfather of Mrs. M. Heuston (no further identification or information given).
Borneo in the sixties: letters from Sarawak
Christ Church, Munnar, Travancore [i.e. Kerala]
Christy collection of photographs on Africa
Church Missionary Society photograph collection
C.J.S. Faulder Vol. III 1876-80 [Faulder Album of India 1876-1880]
Disbound album, containing albumen prints of various sizes. The contents include family photographs, scenes of the outward voyage (including France, Italy and Egypt), views in India including the 1877 Delhi Durbar, portraits and groups, including theatrical ones, maps and newspaper clippings (non photographic items are unnumbered). Also included is an envelope containing some of, what appears to be the original captions cut from the album. The collection is well captioned.
Cochin
Commonwealth in Focus Slides
Commonwealth Universities
Copeland Diary 1917-18
Cuthbert Christy Album of India 1899-1901
Delhi Durbar 1911
A collection of framed panoramic photographs.
Diana Hartley Indian Collection
Diaries of John Laing in India and Europe
Diaries with inserted photographs, drawings and other items.
Diaries of John Laing in India and Europe
Diaries with inserted photographs, drawings and other items.
'Drop the demon dai'
An unbound research paper on maternal mortality and the state in the Madras Presidency, 1840-1875, 68 pages. The paper discusses lying-in hospitals, midwifery training, dai (a traditional birth assistant), child-birth in India, the health and medical welfare of Indian women and female mortality.
Edmund Stoneham collection
A file of loose prints collected by Stoneham during his tenure in India.
Essays of Robert Cust
Famous monuments of Central India
Faviell Collection of Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka] Railway views, 1867
Collection of albumen prints mounted on cards, mostly by Slinn and Co. (viz W.L.H. Skeen and Co.). Two of these photographs (of the Darporee viaduct) relate to Faviell's years in India and the remainder to the construction and opening of the Colombo-Kandy line.