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Quarter-plate. [Looking from gateway towards steps leading up to porticoed entrance].

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278x183mm. View from the lawn in front of the N.W. wing looking along the N. facade and showing the two N. wings flanking the entrance steps leading up to the hexastyle Ionic portico. In front of the N.W. wing stands a cannon captured during the Second Afghan War. For a clearer picture of this field piece, see Curzon 1, p. 80.

Scope and Contents 287x227mm. View from Old Court House Street outside the Great Eastern Hotel looking S. along Government Place. At the right are the gardens of Government House, with the E. gate largely obscured by trees, and at the left commercial premises. In the left foreground on the corner of Waterloo Street are Ezra Mansions, housing Cuthbertson & Harper, and J.C. Hanhart & Co., jewellers; beyond this are the premises of Frederico Peliti, Davis, Leech & Co., Tailors, and the old premises of...

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293x203 mm. Photograph taken from a similar viewpoint to Y3022AA/56. The most notable changes are the increase of trees in the grounds of Government House and on the Maidan, the building of Esplanade Mansions on the site of Scott Thomson's Corner, the new premises of Francis, Harrison and Hathaway & Co. and the overhead power lines for electric trams. The porch of Federico Peliti's restaurant is visible at the extreme left. (Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman).

Scope and Contents 306x186mm. View looking N. from the corner of Government Place East and Esplanade Row. The premises seen in Y3022AA/58 are visible in this photograph, with the addition of R. Scott Thomson's Medical Hall and Walter Bushnell's optician's shop on the corner in the right foreground. The firm of Walter Bushnel was founded in 1901. With the rebuilding of Scott Thomson's Corner the business moved into Grosvenor House at 21 Old Court House Street. A photograph taken after 1902 (when electric trams...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints varying in size from approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. The front cover is embossed with India 1905-6. Locations depicted include Bombay, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Bikaner, Gajner, Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Calcutta, Burma, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore. There are prints of the arrival of...

Scope and Contents 204x144mm. View from the Maidan looking towards the Grand Hotel, situated at 15-17 Chowringhee Road between Lindsay and Corporation Streets. A large four storey block, the hotel occupies the former site of a series of boarding houses run by a Mrs A. Monk and purchased from her by Mr. A. Stephen. These buildings apparently formed the nucleus of the Grand Hotel (Macmillan p.125, Massey p.98) although, according to Firminger pp.266, 268, Mrs. Monk was still running boarding houses at 14 and 15...

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312x180mm. View of the hotel from the Waterloo Street end. The stone pediment and columns seen in Y3022AA/46 have not yet been added, however. Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.

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190x121mm. View looking S. along Old Court House Street from the junction with British Indian Street, with the Great Eastern Hotel on the left. The major addition to the building is a stone pediment supported on four Tuscan columns in front of the main entrance, (Massey p.73).

Scope and Contents 147x97mm. View looking N. along Old Court House Street, with St Andrew's Church visible in the distance on the skyline, and the Great Eastern Hotel running along the right hand side of the road beyond the premises of Guthbertson and Harper. The frontage of the hotel occupies Old Court House Street between British Indian Street and Waterloo Street (seen here in the foreground). At the junction with these streets the building curves round, supported on Tuscan columns running through two...

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240x262mm. View from the street of Grosvenor House, next to Cooke & Kelvey at 21 Old Court House Street. This tall building, with a facade of Roman Ionic columns running through three storeys, housed the firms of Thomas Edmund Bevan's London Musical Depot (founded 1883), Phelps & Co., tailors (founded by John Phelps in 1867), and the saddler James Monteith & Co., (Massey p.61). Photographer unknown, possibly Johnston and Hoffman.

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204x151mm. View looking along Harrison Road, the crossroads in the foreground crowded with pedestrians and bullock carts. Harrison Road runs E. from the Howrah Bridge to the Upper Circular Road. This photograph is taken from the Howrah Bridge end, (Massey p.49).

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242x192mm. View from the Maidan showing the south facade of the High Court.

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Quarter-plate. Seen from the River.

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292x206mm. View from Corporation Street showing Hindusthan Buildings standing at the junction with Hogg Street. This substantial property was owned by the Hindusthan Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd. (founded 1907) and contains a number of other commercial premises along the ground floor street frontages, (Massey p.103). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffmann.

Scope and Contents 284x190mm. View of the W. facade of the Hotel Continental and Cafe Royal, a long two storey, terrace roofed building looking out over the Maidan from the N. end of Chowringhee Road, with commercial premises occupying much of the ground floor. The hotel was established in 1874 by F. Boscolo and taken over by Macketich John (former secretary of the Grand Hotel) in 1916. Massey reproduces an engraving of the building occupying the site before the hotel was built. For a modern view, see...

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283x216mm. View looking E. across the Howrah Bridge towards Calcutta, from Howrah. The 1,530 foot bridge was built on floating pontoons (clearly seen here) in order to obviate possible silting which permanent piers might have caused. It was designed by Sir Bradford Leslie and erected in 1874. It was replaced by a cantilever bridge in 1943, (Massey p.48).

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Quarter-plate. Mr Fisher is not quite certain that this title is correct. (Fisher).

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Quarter-plate. One shift of people washing before leaving the gates.

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Half-plate. Seen from across one of the tanks.

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Letters of Hugh Childers and his wife Gladys (‘Gladdie’) to his parents, Spencer and Florence Childers, from Mandalay, Calcutta, Persian Gulf, etc., 1916-18; including letters to Spencer and Florence Childers from Col. Verney (21), Sir E. Altham (24), Sir Francis Younghusband (48), Rowland Childers (49); reports from Casualty Section, India Office; telegrams, etc.

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Quarter-plate. Burn and Cos Iron Foundry, Calcutta.

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The photographs are framed and very faded. They are unlabelled, with the exception of two taken in Calcutta, March 1936.

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A description of Diana Hartley's journey from Nagpur through Jhansi, Cawnpore, Benares, Patna, Allahabad, Lucknow and Agra to Delhi, November-December 1935 (pp. 1-11), and of a journey through Calcutta, Nagpur, Chanda, Bombay, Suraj and Baroda, July-August 1935 (pp. 11-25).

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290x225mm. View showing the central root system of the tree seen in Y3022BB/39, (Massey p.20).