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Half-plate. (Country Almond Tree) - grows in moister regions of India, Bengal, Siam.

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109 x 79 mm. glossy print.

Scope and Contents 284x196mm. View from the corner of Strand Road and Esplanade Row of the Bank of Bengal buildings, showing the extensions to the original structure (seen in the background), added in 1879. The new buildings are in similar style to the old, but with the roofline over the projecting pavilions enlivened by segmental and straight-sided pediments. These extensions erected by Mackintosh, Burn & Co., formed the premises of the Public Debt Office. A section of the Port Trust Railway, running...

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159x109mm. View of the old Bank of Bengal buildings, situated on the Strand Road near the High Court. The building, a two storey affair with attached Ionic columns, rusticated piers and large arched windows, was erected in 1825, (Massey p.50). Photograph credited to Johnston and Hoffman.

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296 x 238 mm. View from Chowringhee of the Bengal Club. Bourne no. 1701.

Scope and Contents 198x123mm. View looking across General's Tank and Chowringhee Road towards the W. facade of the new Bengal Club premises. The four storey building has arcaded verandahs and domes at the two corners and centre. Six Ionic columns running through two storeys support a heavy entablature above the porte cochere in front of the main entrance. The building stands on the site of the old Clubhouse and was designed by Vincent Esch and constructed by Bengal Stone Company. It was opened in 1911, (Massey...

Scope and Contents Half-plate (landscape format). Seen across the riverbank Dalhousie Square. [Occupying the whole of the north side of Dalhousie Square, the building was erected in 1780 as the Writers Buildings for the accommodation of junior E.I.Co. servants on their arrival in India. Originally, in Montague Masseys words a plain white stuccoed building utterly devoid of any pretensions to architectural beauty, and depending mainly for any chance claim to recognition on its immense length: it was taken...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Archives created by the British soldier and diplomat Henry Burney relating to his service in Burma [Myanmar] and Siam [Thailand]. The cataloguing of the collection has occurred in several stages. In 1921, the RCI Librarian Evans Lewin listed the main English language material in four series, assigning each a letter, A to D. In 1958, Dr D.K. Wyatt examined the Siamese material, including some as yet uncatalogued European material. He listed it in three sections, with the letters E, F, and...

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134 x 100 mm. Once the property of William Wilberforce Bird, it was purchased for Bishop Wilson in 1849: in his diary Laing has wrongly identified the building as the Town Hall, (p. 247).

Scope and Contents 234 x 286 mm. View showing an Indian sitting in front of the stone pavement which locates the site of the Black Hole of Calcutta. Beyond this, above an arched gateway is a plaque reading: 'The stone pavement close to this / marks the position and size of the / prison cell in Old Fort William known in / history as the "Black Hole" of Calcutta'. This memorial stands in a courtyard of the Calcutta General Post Office and was erected in 1884 after researches by Roskell Baines of the East Indian...

Scope and Contents Quarter plate. At corner of Dalhousie Square. [Inscription reads: This monument has been erected by Lord Curzon, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, in the year 1902 upon the site and in reproduction of the design of the original monument to the memory of the 123 persons who perished in the Black Hole prison of Old Fort William on the night of the 20th June 1756. The former memorial was raised by their surviving fellow-sufferer J.Z. Holwell, Governor of Fort William, on the spot where...

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Miscellaneous monochrome postcards of India. The majority of the photographers and publishers are unknown.

Scope and Contents 139x195mm. Exterior view of St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, built in Gothic style and situated at the southern end of the Maidan. The Bishopric of Calcutta was created as early as 1813, but for many years St John's was used as the cathedral church. The idea of building a cathedral church was suggested in 1819, but the original proposal fell through and it was not until 1833 that Bishop Wilson revived the scheme. The foundation stone was laid in October 1839 and the building consecrated in...

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296 x 238 mm. General view of St Paul's Cathedral, situated at the S. end of the Maidan. Bourne no. 1702.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints. This appears to have been an official record of the Royal Tour. Each page has a heading for the place and date and most photographs are captioned, probably by a professional calligrapher. The Prince of Wales Feathers are on the cover and 'The Royal Tour of India 1905-1906' on the spine. Locations and periods covered are: Bombay, 9 November- 14 November, 1905; Udaipur, 18 November - 29 November, 1905; Jaipur, 21 November-23 November, 1905; Lahore, 28 November-1...

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Numbered '21' on bottom left-hand corner.

Scope and Contents 304 x 190 mm. View taken from the Ochterlony Monument looking west across the Maidan towards the shipping moored in the Hooghly. In the centre of the print is the cricket ground, with the Eden Gardens to the left. The equestrian statue standing in the triangle of grass in the foreground is of Lord Hardinge. Beyond this is the southernmost tip of the Government House gardens. The print forms a part of Samuel Bourne’s panorama of the city and joins on to Y3022S/67. For other portions, see...

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314 x 191 mm. View looking NW from the Ochterlony Monument, with Government House in the centre of the print. Duplicate of Y3022A/3. Photograph by Samuel Bourne (no 1717).

Scope and Contents 289x161mm. General view of the Foreign and Military Secretariat, situated on the Esplanade next to WaIter Locke & Co. The three storey building has verandahs on each floor, with square towers at either end of the S. facade. Above the central archway and rising from the second storey is a hexastyle Corinthian portico whose pediment rises above the horizontal line of the roof. The competition to design the elevations was won by Mr. Banks Gwyther, and the building erected in...

Scope and Contents 294x208mm. A view from the Ochterlony Monument looking N. over the Curson Gardens towards Esplanade Row East and the northern sections of the city. Along Esplanade Row can be seen WaIter Locke & Co., the Foreign and Military Secretariat, Morrison & Cottle and T.E. Thomson & Co. At the extreme right of the print is the junction of Esplanade Row East with Chowringhee Road, where the musjid erected by Prince Gholam Muhammad in 1842 can be partly seen. The Curzon Gardens are situated...

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251x188mm. Showing the 'Govindur' lying on her side half submerged in the Hooghly just opposite the Port Office on Strand Road after the cyclone of 1864, with the wreckage of lighters and other vessels in the foreground, (Massey p.34).

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 347-511. Added numbers are: 375A, 529B-C, 266A-B, 521A-B, 547A, 510A; spoiled 350, 424, 464 and 467; not used: 348, 357, 359, 365, 365, 388, 404, 405, 431, 446, 449, 465, 466, 485, 502, 503, 509. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 529B-C, 266A-B follow 484; 456 follows 490; 521A-B follow 496; 547A follows 511. Subjects covered in this album are: Burma: Bhamo; on the...

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate. [Distant view with Indians hauling logs on trolley in foreground].

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204xI46mm. View of the hotel from a similar position to Y3022AA/44. The principal additions to the building visible in this print are the cast-iron arcade along Old Court House Street with a sheltered verandah above (built in 1883), and the construction of an extra storey. Photographer unknown, probably Bourne & Shepherd.