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244x190mm. View looking along the narthex towards the nave and altar, with monuments and memorial tablest in the foreground. In the centre of the print is Chantrey's statue of Bishop Heber.

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A journal of a voyage on the 'Frances Anne' from Liverpool to Calcutta, 42 pages. Mackinnon probably kept the account to send to his mother: the last page closes with greetings to her.

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A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.

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...

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...

Scope and Contents This section discusses Benson’s experience during the Second World War. He was an Early Defence Local Volunteer before being called up in May 1941 to serve with the Royal Engineers. In Oct. 1943 he travelled to India, to join Queen Victoria’s Own Madras Sappers and Miners, where he trained Indian army recruits. In early 1944, Benson transferred to the West African Engineers, although he continued to serve in India. He was based at a number of locations, including camps in Bangalore,...

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A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.

Scope and Contents 296 x 233 mm. View looking SW across the Maidan, with the equestrian statue of Viscount Henry Hardinge of Lahore in the foreground. Hardinge (1785-1856) was Governor General of India 1844-48. The statue is by John Henry Foley (1818-1874); as well as Hardinge's statue, erected in 1858 and considered his finest work (see Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851), Foley was also responsible for those of Lord Canning and Sir James Outram in Calcutta, and the figures of Asia and...

Scope and Contents 296x226mm. View of McLeod House at 28 Dalhousie Square West. The four storey office block is heavily rusticated on all floors, with the main facade broken by a massive order of Roman Ionic attached columns which run through three storeys. McLeod House was completed in 1917 on the site of the former Mercantile Bank, the firm having previously occupied premises at 31 Dalhousie Square. Founded by C.C. (later Sir Charles) McLeod in 1889, and originally operating from premises in Mangoe Lane, the...

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253x196mm. Showing the three storey house of Mr Goodenough, with almost the whole of one side wall ripped away by the 1864 cyclone.

Scope and Contents 286x228mm. View showing the S. facade of the Municipal Offices. The N. frontage of the building looks onto Corporation Street near its junction with Chowringhee Road. Designed by W. Gwyther Banks, Architect to the Government of India, and completed in 1905, the offices are contained in a three-winged brick building (the fourth side of the quadrangle being formed by the old offices) with a 105 foot tower over the main entrance at the S., (Massey p.80). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston...

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244x188mm. View from the Maidan showing the Chowringhee Road facade of the Indian Museum, with Sudder Street on the left.

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287x206mm. View from Chowringhee Road showing the two storey premises of N. Perry & Co. at the junction with Lindsay Street. The building, with its porch running out over the pavement, also houses the 'International Art Gallery'. (Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffmann).

Scope and Contents 277x338mm. View of the National Bank of India at the corner of Clive Street and Fairlie Place. The bank is a three storey brick building with pediments supported by Corinthian columns on the E. and S. facades, and a tower above the main entrance on the near corner. Established as the Calcutta City Banking Corporation in 1863, its name was altered to the National Bank of India in the following year. The original premises were in Council House Street and moved to the site seen here in 1902....

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320 x 187 mm. View looking along the canal, with houseboats in the foreground and a bridge beyond. Bourne no. 1714.

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247 x 192 mm. View looking eastwards across the southern facade of the Government Secretariat on Dalhousie Square. At the left is Clive Street. In the centre stands an ornate lamp standard which was later replaced by Lord Curzon's reconstruction of the Holwell Monument.

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244x190mm. View of the Lindsay Street frontage of the Sir Stuart Hogg Market.

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Quarter-plate. A second similar block on other side of same street. [The actual photograph does not seem to relate to Fisher title, it shows Indian dwellings with a small group of men in fancy dress, beards and astride hobby horses].

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Items include news cuttings recording the marriage of Sir Harold and Lady Smedley (1950); their period in Rhodesia (1951-53) and posting to India (March 1957-58); photographs of Smedley with Sir Roy Price (1950), Lord Swinton (1953) and Alec Douglas-Home (1956); postcards and travel literature (1950); Smedley’s MBE certificate (1953); news cuttings of the Queen Mother’s visit to Bulawayo (1953); and several cards and letters including a Christmas card from Alec Douglas-Home (1955).

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290x200mm. View looking S. along Government Place East (viz. the S. portion of Old Court House Street) towards Scott Thomson's Corner and the Maidan, with two of the eastern gates of Government House visible at the right, (Massey p.46). Photographer possibly Johnston and Hoffman.

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219x133mm. View of the old race stand, probably taken in the 1880s. The first race meetings in Calcutta took place in 1803 in the face of Governor Wellesley's disapproval, although the racecourse at the S.W. corner of the Maidan was not laid out until 1819. The dates of the construction and demolition of this building have not been established, (Massey p.3).

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218x159mm. View from the bank of the Hooghly showing sailing vessels at their moorings on the river. The precise location is not identified, but the silhouetted building in the left background is possibly the Bank of Bengal, in which case the photograph looks S along Strand Road towards Colvin's Ghat, (Massey p.2). Photograph credited to Johnston and Hoffman.

Scope and Contents 290x192mm. View from the Ochterlony Monument looking S.E. across the Maidan and along Chowringhee Road. The tank opposite Lindsay Street (in foreground) is Monohor Das' Tank, the one beyond is the General's Tank. In the distance is St Paul's Cathedral. Although unsigned, the photograph is probably one of Samuel Bourne's panoramas, taken c.1867. The absence of the Outram statue at the junction of Park Street and Chowringhee (midway between the two tanks) certainly dates the photograph to...

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282x190mm. View looking northwards across the Eden Gardens, with the masts of shipping moored on the Hooghly visible in the distance. The gardens are situated just north of Fort William on a piece of land bounded by Strand Road, Auckland Road and Eden Gardens Road. The gardens were laid out with funds supplied by the Eden sisters (sisters of the Earl of Auckland, Governor-General 1836-42). In the foreground stands the statue of Sir William Peel V.C., (Massey p.18).

Scope and Contents 291x175mm. View from the Ochterlony Monument taken c.1867. This view forms a part of Samuel Bourne's seven part panorama of the city (see also Y3022E8, Y3022S/66, Y3022AA/3). In the foreground on the Maidan is the old Dhurrumtollah Tank before it was filled in, with Esplanade Row beyond and northern Calcutta in the background. The buildings visible along the Esplanade are, from left to right, Madame Nielly's French Millinery shop, Payne & Co.'s 'Belatee Bungalow' (on the site later to be...