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Numbered '42' on the bottom left-hand corner.

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78 x 53 mm.

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Half-plate. (From Amboina, a small island in Malay Pen, whence this one and only specimen was brought.).

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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.

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Half-plate. Bot. Gardens, Calcutta.

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170x247mm. View of the four storey brick building of the Alliance Bank of Simla, situated in Fancy Lane at the N. end of Council House Street. Date of construction unknown, (Massey p.89). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston &Hoffmann.

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Quarter-plate. On the Calcutta side. Men returning from bathing offering pice at this altar. (Fisher).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...

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287x174mm. View from Chowringhee Road looking N.W. across the Dhurrumtollah Tank towards Government House and Scott Thomson's Corner (see Y3022AA/59-61). The commercial premises seen in the preceding print can also be seen here, with the addition of Madeley & Co. and Mountain's Family Hotel, on the site later to be occupied by Thacker, Spink & Co., (Massey p.95).

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199x140mm. View from the Maidan looking across Chowringhee Road towards the W. facade of the Army and Navy Stores at the junction with Middleton Street, a classical building with a central hexastyle composite portico with irregular intercolumniation, flanked by smaller pavilions with pediments. Date of construction was about 1911, (Massey p. 107).

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Quarter-plate.

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312 x 188 mm. General view of the famous banyan tree in the gardens. No. 2579B.

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Copy. Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. Front view.

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293x206mm. View of the famous banyan tree in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. The gardens are situated in Howrah on the W. bank of the Hooghly and were founded by the East India Company in 1786 on the advice of Colonel Robert Kyd of the Bengal Engineers. Kyd himself held the post of Superintendent from the establishment of the gardens until his death in 1793. (Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffmann).

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...

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285 x 103 mm. The photograph, taken in a panoramic camera, shows a general view of the famous banyan tree in the Botanical Gardens in Calcutta. It is accompanied by a sheet of notepaper on which is written 'from Sir Everard im Thurn 28/XI/12', but as the photograph was copied as print 510A in Album III of the Fisher Collection, dating from 1907-1908, and Sir Everard did not serve in India, the two items probabaly do not belong together.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...

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280x217mm. View looking N. along the river bank from Mullick's Bathing Ghat on Strand Road just N. of the Howarh Bridge, with Indians bathing and drawing water in the foreground. For another view of this ghat, see Y3022U/13, (Massey p.83).

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291 x 237 mm. View at Mullick's Bathing Ghat on the Strand Road looking north along the east bank of the Hooghly towards moored vessels. In the foreground the scene is crowded with Indians bathing, drawing water and washing clothes. For another view of the ghat see Y3022BB/46. No. 2499F

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205 x 135 mm. No. 3128.

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265 x 200 mm. No. 3164.

Scope and Contents 240x158mm. View from the lawn looking towards the old residence of the Lieutenant-Governors of Bengal. A wide flight of steps leads up the N. entrance in the main block, a two storey affair decorated with Ionic columns on the ground floor and Corinthian on the first. The building is lavishly decorated in its details, with statues and coats of arms along the roofline, and pediments and scrolls above the windows picked out in different colours from the main body. The disorganised cluster of...

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287x173mm. Similar view to Y3022BB/50, but, judging from the vegetation, probably taken some years earlier, (Massey p.5). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffmann.

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307 x 187 mm. View of the former residence of the Lieutenant Governors of Bengal. For a note on the building’s history see Y3022BB/50.

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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.