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A train full of children coming away for Xmas [i.e. Christmas] from the Lawrence Asylum Schools, Ootacamund.

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276 x 234 mm. View down a tree-lined road with a valley beyond. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 14.

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320 x 193 mm. View from the N shore of the lake looking towards the avenue lined with willow trees which divides the stretch of water into two. The nearer portion of the lake, immediately to the south of the town, was filled in between 1896 and 1899 to become the racecourse. Bourne no. 1980.

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319 x 194 mm. View looking upstream along a series of rapids on the Pykara River near Ootacamund. Bourne no. 2034.

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114 x 80 mm. glossy print with 155 x 155 mm enlargement.

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114 x 80 mm. glossy print with 155 x 155 mm enlargement.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Copy. [Photograph by Firebrace].

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Landscape format. Copy. [General view]. [Photograph by Hutchins].

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Half length portrait of a young Toda girl.

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320 x 194 mm. View looking along the Ootacamund valley from a spur of the hill Dodabet, with the Nilgiri Hills in the distance. The view looks across a landscape of rolling fields dotted with copses and bungalows towards Oolacamund Lake. See also Y3022EE, Y3022FF and Y3022H/40-43. Bourne no. 1954.

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J.W. Laing: W.L. Edminston: R.J. Watson (posed group). 103 x 154 mm. Laing was based at Coonor from 9th to 22nd December 1873 and while there spent much of his time with William Edminston of the Glenmore Estate and Robert Watson, manager of the Glendale Estate. Both of them were apparently old acquaintances from Scotland. Though he mentions that this photograph was taken on 15th December during a two-day visit to Ootacamund, he does not give the name of the photographer. (p. 163).

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323 x 186 mm.

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350 x 250 mm.

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275 x 203 mm. View from Elk Hill looking northwest showing Ooty Lake and the Bazaar area of the town, with the Nilgiri Hills in the background. Plates 40-43 form a four part panorama of the town looking northwest-northeast. There is a duplicate at Y3022EE. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn.

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272 x 201 mm. Print 2 of the panorama with Bombay House in the centre. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 2.

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259 x 201 mm. Print 3 of the panorama looking NNE. St Stephen’s Church is visible in the extreme left and Elk Hill House is in the bottom right corner. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 3.

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274 x 201 mm. Print 4 of the panorama looking northeast to Old Ooty. Identied buildings include the Government Offices, Elk Hill Lodge, South Wick and Mount Stuart. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 4.

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278 x 229 mm. View from the hillside looking down onto St Stephen’s Church with the Collector’s Office and the Civil Court behind. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 8.

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A wide range of papers and artwork concerning different parts of Asia. Much of the material relates to India.

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Captions for the lantern slides are those written on the slides themselves.

Scope and Contents 5 joined prints measuring in total 1447 x 207 mm. A panoramic view of Ootacamund and the surrounding country from Elk Hill, just above Bombay House. The photograph is taken from a similar viewpoint to Y3022EE. In this view the area of the lake to the east of the Willow Bund has been filled in and the ground taken over by part of the racecourse and tennis courts. This work was undertaken between 1896 and 1899. The town itself has grown considerably in this period between the two photographs,...

Scope and Contents A panoramic view of Ootacamund (also known as Udagamandalam) made from four jointed prints, measuring a total of 1074 x 205 mm. The prints are linen backed and contained in boards stamped with the title. The view is taken from Elk Hill looking northwards and encompasses the lake at the west, the centre of the town and the outlying bungalows running to the head of the valley in the east. Points of interest in the view include: Ooty Lake, at this period with its eastern end still...

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279 x 234 mm. View looking along the parterre towards the bandstand or pavilion, with the ornamental pond at the right. For a history of the gardens, see Sir Frederick Price, ‘Ootacamund: a history (Madras, 1908), pp. 117-121. Photograph by A.T.W. Penn no. 27.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Photograph by Firebrace].

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320 x 288 mm.