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Haridwar (inhabited place)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

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At Hardwar - Hariki Piri, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/755
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nigapur Canal Bungalow, Hurdwar, March 1901, 1901-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/19
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1901-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nigapur Dam, Hurdwar, March 1901, 1901-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/18
Scope and Contents

202 x 140 mm. General view of the half-completed dam.

Dates: 1901-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Sacred Cow at Hardwar, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/753
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format). (Deformity - a bone from the hump ending in two extra horns).

Dates: 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Saddhus at Hardwar, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/754
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Small shoot, Khair Island, near Hurdwar, Jan 1st 1900, 1900-01-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/16
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1900-01-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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String of camels at Hardwar, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/752
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Surnai, Hurdwar, on the Ganges [1890s], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022HH/5
Scope and Contents

98 x 66 mm. River scene, with a European woman seated on ‘mussocks’ (inflated bullock hides) in the foreground.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The same, from a part of the steps, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/756
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Sarwan Nath Temple, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/760
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Sarwan Nath Temple, Hardwar, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5/759
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. View from a gallery of the surrounding building.

Dates: 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Volume V : Agra, Delhi, Hurdwar, Dehra Dun and Amritsar, February 1908, 1908-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 5
Scope and Contents

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].




Dates: 1908-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).