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Edmund Stoneham collection
A file of loose prints collected by Stoneham during his tenure in India.
Elizabeth Adelaide Manning: Correspondence and Papers
Includes material relating to Indian schooling and religion, work of the National Indian Association, childcare and literature.
English translation of Khairuddin Muhammad of Allahbad's History of Jaunpur
Oval Indian stamp at fo. 85v. Attached at end are 3pp. of notes on villages in the district.
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.
Fisher photograph collection
Flora Sheringham Anglo-Indian family photograph collection
Collection of loose, mostly uncaptioned photographs of family groups (one is captioned 'The Park Commercial Institute'), most mounted on card and measuring between approximately 75 x 115 mm and 245 x 295 mm.
Forster: The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster
'Foundation stones in Manoharpur'
A memoir by Gerald Dickson based on his diaries, 270 pages, with an index at the back, 4 pages.
Four photographs of India, circa 1912
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 150 x 115 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse. The views show architectural remains in Bihar and Orissa. Photographs by Miss Mary F.A. Tench.
Frith India Series Vol. I
'From Aden to Quetta'
Part of a book left incomplete on the author's death. The title, introduction, glossary and index were supplied by the author's daughter, Mrs Rosamond Griffin. The full title is 'From Aden ... to Quetta ... to Lahore ... to Delhi ... to Quetta: the peripatetic life of one army household between 1910 and 1917'. The memoir contains descriptions of train journeys in India and the accommodation, domestic arrangements and social amenities of army families in the early twentieth century.
General views of India, 1950s-60s
A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 205 x 155 mm (1-20) and 250 x 195 mm (21-41), with typewritten captions. Prints 21-41 are mounted on card with sellotape. Photographs by Photo Division, Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (1-20) and unknown (21-41).
German East Africa, 1900s
H.A. Douglas Indian collection
Hardinge Papers
Hawkes collection of Indian Railway Photographs
An album containing albumen prints of various sizes by R. Phillips of Darjeeling, Samuel Bourne and others. The name of F.A. Hawkes, who was an engineer on the North Bengal State Railways from 1871-1879, appears frequently in it. The photographs include the construction of the North Bengal State Railway, scenes in Darjeeling, amateur theatricals, portrait groups and Sir Richard Temple's camp at the Delhi Durbar of 1877.
H.H. Davies collection on India
H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India
A book by John David Rees, with 'A Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore' by G.P. Sanderson. An account of the Indian Tour of 1889 by Prince Albert Victor (1864-1892) Duke of Clarence and Avondale, elder son of Edward Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. The book is illustrated with collotype portraits produced by the Autotype Company and photogravures by Dawsons Ph. Sc., eight of them arranged two to a page. The book is stored at RCS.A.22.
India, Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka] and Singapore
An album of albumen prints probably taken in the 1880s by varied photographers including Bourne and Shepherd, W L H Skeen and Co. and G.R. Lambert & Co. Numbers 1-39 are of India; 40-51 of Ceylon; and 52-59 of Singapore. Numbers at the end of individual photograph entries refer to the photographers' catalogue numbers.