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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'
Andrews: the papers of Charles Freer Andrews
The collection consists of some original correspondence and much secondary material such as articles about Andrews.
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
Bowater Sanderson: Naval Journal
The journal (c. 305 pages) begins in September 1747, describing the voyage out to India, and concludes with the return of Royal Duke to England on 5 June 1750. The volume includes navigational exercises, transcribed sailing directions and pencil landfalls, and a sketch of the British settlement at Oriocopong.
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
Copy of the log book of 'the Mountegue'
Comprises 261 copies of photographic prints taken from the original log, collected by Dr J.G. Gubbins in 1932, as part of efforts to restore the University of Witwatersrand Library which had been destroyed by fire in 1932. The log book relates to a voyage from London to Surat in Gujarat, India, between 1699 and 1702.
Cuthbert Christy Album of India 1899-1901
David Binnie: World tour diaries and photographs
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.