Scope and Contents

Part of a book left incomplete on the author's death. The title, introduction, glossary and index were supplied by the author's daughter, Mrs Rosamond Griffin. The full title is 'From Aden ... to Quetta ... to Lahore ... to Delhi ... to Quetta: the peripatetic life of one army household between 1910 and 1917'. The memoir contains descriptions of train journeys in India and the accommodation, domestic arrangements and social amenities of army families in the early twentieth century.

Scope and Contents

100 x 152 mm. The door in the Kucha bandi, shown in photograph no. 1, opened.

Scope and Contents 109 x 153 mm. Kucha bounded by tall buildings and blocked by a brick bandi with communicating door. Sullage discharged over water pipes. The sanitary difficulty ‘is complicated by the existence of kuchas [harrow lanes] where it is impossible, for lack of space, for soil carts to go. From such places all refuse must be carried out by hand. It is noticeable how clean and swept the insides of the houses are and how squalid outside … Through this rotting channel, is discharged sullage,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...

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...

Scope and Contents 151 x 110 mm. Cattle blocking thoroughfares. The solving of the problem of milk cattle belonging to gujars and private owners within the city. It appears to me that one cannot sweep away what is an obvious necessity unless a dairy farm can be started first to supply milk reliably and regularly to the city at a price no higher than that under the present system. My idea would be to provide, at various centres in the city, properly constructed and drained milking sheds under frequent...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints. This appears to have been an official record of the Royal Tour. Each page has a heading for the place and date and most photographs are captioned, probably by a professional calligrapher. The Prince of Wales Feathers are on the cover and 'The Royal Tour of India 1905-1906' on the spine. Locations and periods covered are: Bombay, 9 November- 14 November, 1905; Udaipur, 18 November - 29 November, 1905; Jaipur, 21 November-23 November, 1905; Lahore, 28 November-1...

Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). The Nowluckha, and on right one end of the Shish Mohal. (The armoury is to the left of this quad, not seen in picture). (Fisher).

Scope and Contents

The diary (59 leaves) describes Christy's travels in India after he resigned his civil medical appointment at Satara on 26 June, and while he was seeking other work. He visited Bombay, Agra, Simla, Lahore and Quetta. It also includes 11 pages of clinical notes.

Scope and Contents

The volume contains an account (twenty pages) of a journey from Lahore to Srinagar, and into Kashmir, and notes (circa 80 pages) on medical lectures Christy attended.

Scope and Contents

111 x 153 mm. Cattle passing through the bazar [illustrating crowding of narrow streets and bazaars by cattle on way to pasturage].

Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Monochrome postcards. The geographical locations of the cards, together with their publishers, breakdown thus:1-9 Calcutta (various anonymous publishers)10-57 Agra (K. Lall and Co.)58-59 Benares (also known as Varanasi - Saeed Bros.)60-75 Lucknow (Omaid Singh and Sons)76-91 Delhi (Lal Chand and Sons, Dariba, Delhi)92-123 Lahore and Amritsar (Punjab Religious Book Society, Lahore)124-129 Burma130-135 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) coloured (Plate and...

Scope and Contents

206 x 157 mm. View looking towards the Badshahi Musjid at Lahore, built by Aurungzib in 1674.

Scope and Contents

106 x 153 mm. Complete blocking of a kucha by a brick bandi [Sullivan recommends in his report the demolition of all these brick walls which effectively turn lanes into blind alleys].

Scope and Contents

109 x 152 mm. Projections of kuchas and building over them at first floor level.

Scope and Contents

108 x 150 mm. Showing high buildings on each side, encroachments, sullage discharging onto water supply pipes and kucha built over from first floor level.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Proof and typescript copies of selected articles.

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...

Scope and Contents

220 x 145 mm black and white photograph showing Smedley seated next to Lady Home in a grandstand during a public event.

Scope and Contents

206 x 157 mm. View of the tomb of Ranjit Singh in Lahore.