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151 x 194 mm. Grouped portrait of emaciated famine victims posed in the doorway of a thatched house. Full accounts of the Indian famines of the 1870s can be found in the Parliamentary Command Papers, Report of the Indian Famine Commission. See in particular Part III, Famine histories (c. 3086 of 1885).

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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275x206mm. Showing the east facade of the Palace. At the left is a large wing presumably housing a banqueting or durbar hall. To the right of the central entrance arch a semi-circular verandah looks out over the gardens. The main residence of the Raja was in Mysore city, but as well as this palace he also kept a summer residence in Ootacamund in the Nilgiri Hills.

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132x92mm (oval print). View looking along a landscaped path towards the cast-iron bandstand, situated near the west end of the General Parade Ground.

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Proof and typescript copies of selected articles.

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285x206mm. View from the tower of St Andrew's Church looking north-east over the Cantonment Bazaar towards St John's Church in the distance.

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259x207mm. View from the tower of St Andrew's Church looking south towards Richmond Town, with St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral prominent in the middle distance at the left.

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152 x 107 mm. glossy print.

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156 x 101 mm. glossy print.

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103 x 96 mm. glossy print.

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81 x 43 mm. glossy print.

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81 x 43 mm. glossy print.

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81 x 43 mm. glossy print.

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81 x 43 mm. glossy print.

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134 x 83 mm. glossy print.

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54 x 54 mm. negative.

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152 x 107 mm. glossy print.

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127 x 77 mm. glossy print.

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152 x 102 mm. glossy print.

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260x208mm. View of the equestrian statue of Sir Mark Cubbon (1785-1861), standing in front of the Government Offices at Bangalore. Cubbon was Commissioner of Mysore 1834-61. The sculpture is by Carlo Marochetti.

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258x208mm. View looking along the driveway and across lawns towards the Palace.

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261x212mm. View of the fern house in the Lal Bagh Gardens to the south-east of the Fort at Bangalore. These gardens, which contained a menagerie as well as a fine collection of tropical and sub-tropical plants, were said to have been laid out in the time of Hyder Ali (1717/22-1782).

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260x209mm. View looking along the roadway towards one of the two entrances to the Fort, an oval complex to the south of the Petta.

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262x209mm. View showing the west façade of the Palace of the Raja of Mysore in North Bangalore. The building is in the form of a lavish and miniature version of Windsor Castle.

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269x186mm. View looking across Cubbon Park (laid out in 1864) towards the Government Offices. This massive range (over 500 feet long) consists of arcades of double columns above a rusticated, arcaded ground floor.