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303x173mm. View of the race stand, with crowds attending the meeting, (Massey p.3).

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276x188mm. Showing the Royal Insurance Buildings at the junction of Dalhousie Square West and Coila Ghat Street. The clock and a small part of the portico of the Post Office can be seen at the right. Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.

Scope and Contents 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...

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278 x 235 mm. Duplicate of Y3022G/57. Samuel Bourne, number 1732.

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200 x 146 mm. Mounted on card. Group portrait of schoolgirls and teachers. The pupils appear to be of predominantly Eurasian origin. Photograph by Edna Lorenz.

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286 x 233 mm. Group portrait of Indian and European schoolchildren with their teachers. Miss C.E. Mawby, amongst whose personal effects this photograph was found, is seated second from the left in the row of teachers. Photograph by H. Paul.

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152x97mm. View looking E. along Esplanade Row from Scott Thomson's Corner, with the Medical Hall in the foreground and Madeley & Co., Madame Nielly, and Payne & Co. beyond. See Y3022AA/59-61, (Massey p. 2).

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289x208mm. Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.

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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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Quarter-plate. On the Maidan, opposite the Aniperlony Monument.

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253x172mm. View looking across the Hooghly towards Howrah where a mass of wrecked shipping has been driven onto the bank of the river.

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240x189mm.

Scope and Contents 27Sx209mm. View from the junction of Government Place East and Esplanade Row, with the newly built Esplanade Mansions standing on the site of Scott Thomson's Corner. This flamboyant residential block was built by the firm of Martin & Co. in c.1911-12: the 1912 edition of Thacker's 'Bengal Directory' records the area as demolished and the following year lists the presence of the block. These directories were generally prepared for the press towards the end of the year preceding...

Scope and Contents 205x146mm. View showing the spot at the N.E. corner of the Post Office where the site of the Black Hole incarceration of 1756 is commemorated. A plaque on the wall recounts the details of the incident, and an area in front (paved with black marble in 1901 at the direction of Lord Curzon) is fenced off with iron railings. According to J.Z. Holwell, 146 men and women were forced into the tiny guardroom on the night of 20 June 1756, only 23 of whom survived to emerge the following day. This...

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285x220mm. View from the junction of Hare Street and Bankshall Street looking towards the main entrance of the Small Cause Court, a terrace-roofed three storey building, with a rusticated ground storey above which columns of an indeterminate order flank the doors near the camera. Date of construction unknown, probably c.1910, (Massey p.69). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.

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 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 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...

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243x189mm.

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Half-plate.

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134 x 100 mm. After the 1934 earthquake the tower was recast without the spire, (p. 257).

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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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232 x 276 mm. This picture was presumably taken about the time of the statue’s completion in 1874, since the inscription seen in later photographs has not yet been carved on the plinth. For a note on the statue, see Y3022BB/26.

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245x185mm. General view of the Telegraph Office, situated at the south-east corner of Dalhousie Square, with Old Court House Street running off to the left. An Italianate building with a campanile at the north-east corner, it was constructed in 1873-76 from designs by Barnfather and Clark, revised by Mr Vivian. The building is now demolished.

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Half-plate. At Khalighat - the place of sacrifice.