Haridwar (inhabited place)
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
At Hardwar - Hariki Piri, 1908-02
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].
Nigapur Canal Bungalow, Hurdwar, March 1901, 1901-03
202 x 149 mm. General view of the bungalow, a stone building with a row of large segmentally arched windows and French windows along the main façade.
Nigapur Dam, Hurdwar, March 1901, 1901-03
202 x 140 mm. General view of the half-completed dam.
Sacred Cow at Hardwar, 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format). (Deformity - a bone from the hump ending in two extra horns).
Saddhus at Hardwar, 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format). (The two squatting figures in the foreground). Naga (Query, is this another name for them?) bodies covered with white ashes and hair brown through rubbing with ashes. (Fisher). [The Nagas comprise a number of peoples inhabiting the mountainous area of Assam's eastern border with Burma].
Small shoot, Khair Island, near Hurdwar, Jan 1st 1900, 1900-01-01
Group portrait of two European couples standing with the pile of birds they have shot; with an elephant and mahout in the background. The figures are identified as: Capt. & Mrs Pratt (I.M.S.), Mr & Mrs W-S, the photograph taken by Mr Hall. James John Pratt (b 1860) served in the Indian Medical Service 1883-1912. ‘W-S’ is possibly William Ward-Smith, Indian Public Works Department from 1872: in 1900 he was attached to the Irrigation Department.
String of camels at Hardwar, 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format).
Surnai, Hurdwar, on the Ganges [1890s], 1890 - 1899
98 x 66 mm. River scene, with a European woman seated on ‘mussocks’ (inflated bullock hides) in the foreground.
The same, from a part of the steps, 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Hundreds of big fish large-scaled here, sacred dark brownish-green : some with red gills. (Fisher).
The Sarwan Nath Temple, 1908-02
Quarter-plate. View from above from roof of surrounding building (which is a pilgrims rest house) showing specially the Tarshoon (put always in the hand of Shiva) a bronze and iron pole.
The Sarwan Nath Temple, Hardwar, 1908-02
Quarter-plate. View from a gallery of the surrounding building.
Volume V : Agra, Delhi, Hurdwar, Dehra Dun and Amritsar, February 1908, 1908-02
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 670-812. Added numbers are: 710A, 742A, 743A, 778A, 815A; spoiled 771 and 775; not used: 691, 693, 97, 737, 805.
Subjects covered in the album are:
Agra and Fatehpur Sikri: Moharam Festival, temples and tombs, carpet weaving;
Delhi: schools, buildings, parade of 18th Lancers;
Hurdwar [also known as Haridwar].