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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292 x 225 mm. Viceregal elephants, probably at Barakpur.

Scope and Contents 290 x 228 mm. Photograph, probably taken at Barrackpore (see Y3022E/15), showing a group of five elephants with mahouts, howdahs and decorative trappings (jhools) of scarlet cloth edged with gold. A large stud of elephants was housed in the park at Barrackpore for the use of the Governor General and for the amusement of his guests. The number of animals decreased over the years, until by the time of Lord Elgin's arrival in India in 1893 only one animal survived. It was therefore decided to...

Scope and Contents 297 x 239 mm. Showing a European woman seated in the middle of the banian grove in Barrackpore Park. This lady is identified as Bourne's wife in one source (Clark Worswick, The last empire, (Aperture 1976) p. 60), but the authority for this statement is not given. As well as the banian grove which, formerly enclosed by shrubs, had been opened out by Lady Canning, the grounds at Barrackpore also contained a temple of fame, a menagerie and a gothic ruin (see following plate). Bourne no....

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Seated group in garden.

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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293 x 240 mm. Showing the woman seen in Y3022E/16 seated in Barrackpore Park in front of the ivy and creeper covered ruins. The date of the construction of these ruins (which were built in picturesque taste, as ruins) has not been determined. Bourne no. 1750.

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 296 x 233 mm. View looking across the Mottee Jheel ornamental lake towards the N facade of Government House, Barrackpore. The building is in the form of a single high storey and attic resting on a rusticated arcade above which projects an octastyle Tuscan portico. This finely composed photograph fulfils all the conditions laid down by Bourne for a picturesque arrangement: five Indian figures are grouped in the foreground while the building itself, with the requisite stretch of water, is...

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Princess under the great banyan tree in the grounds of the Viceroy's country residence, Barrackpore

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Princess under the great banyan tree in the grounds of the Viceroys country residence, Barrackpore

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146 x 110 mm. glossy print.

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140 x 115 mm glossy print.

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140 x 115 mm glossy print.

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140 x 115 mm glossy print.

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140 x 115 mm glossy print.