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Quarter-plate (landscape format). A very famous bathing place on the Ganges : view taken from a small footbridge which cuts off this portion from the main street. (Fisher). [Showing bathers on the steps and in the river].

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83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

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Album containing panoramic photographs, 300 x 115 mm (actual print surface 290 x 105 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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Scenes at Arrah on the Ganges south bank. HQ of the British district of Shahabad.

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Scenes at Arrah on the Ganges south bank. HQ of the British district of Shahabad.

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Scenes at Arrah on the Ganges south bank. HQ of the British district of Shahabad.

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Scenes at Arrah on the Ganges south bank. HQ of the British district of Shahabad.

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Scenes at Arrah on the Ganges south bank. HQ of the British district of Shahabad.

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Scenes at Arrah on the Ganges south bank. HQ of the British district of Shahabad.

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190 x 145 mm.

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190 x 145 mm.

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78 x 53 mm.

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83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

Scope and Contents 242 x 298 mm. View looking along a narrow gorge of the Ganges, with pines and other vegetation growing on the steep slopes. Bhairamghati is a few miles north of the source of the Ganges, ‘After about two miles it [the path] again crossed to the right bank by a similar bridge thrown over a remarkable chasm. This was at a place called Bhairamghati, though there was no village or sign of a house - in fact, there was no room for any. The river here poured through a valley so narrow that it might...

Scope and Contents 297 x 238 mm. View looking along the valley, with the Ganges running its course between steep cliffs. After leaving the area of the source of the Ganges, Bourne made his way to Derali, a village near Mokba, where he halted for two days to varnish his negatives. He then followed the course of the Ganges for a further two marches and 'during these two marches I obtained only three pictures, though I might easily have taken more of a similar character' (B.J.P., 1 April 1870, p. 149). Bourne no....

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Hundreds of big fish large-scaled here, sacred dark brownish-green : some with red gills. (Fisher).

Scope and Contents 295 x 240 mm. View looking towards the ice cave at the foot of the Gangotri Glacier, with the Bhagirathi River issuing from its mouth. The Ganges is formed by the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda Rivers. The latter part of this caption ('elevation 22,621 ft') has been added here incorrectly: it should form part of the caption of Y3022C/37, ‘From here to the glacier was the roughest piece of work we had yet met with; it was one continuous scramble amongst huge stones, rough jungle,...

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83 x 57 mm. glossy print with 35 mm. negative.

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75 x 100 mm.

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75 x 100 mm.

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75 x 100 mm.

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82 x 130 mm.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Rakhykash. All Rakhykash photos taken in fading light, but I do hope something has shown of them - one of the very holy among the many holy places of India. (Fisher).