| Description | Photograph album, 28 cm x 44 cm, containing prints mostly 21cm x 26 cm depicting military life in India and Afghanistan, most with titles in pencil.
The titles (in order of occurrence) are:
View of British camp from South Hill Picquet, Jellallabad (3 photographs)
South Gate, Jellalabad
Water Gate, Jellalabad
Mouth of Khyber Pass
River View Kirkee
Dacca
Canal Roorkee
Kirdoar
R.E. officers
General Sir Peter[?] Brown and staff
Magazine, Roorkee
European barracks, Roorkee
Pontooning Ganges Canal
Parade ground, Roorkee
Dewan-i-Am Fort Delhi
Delhi, 1st January 1877 [Photograph of pavilion decorated for the Delhi Durbar]
Part of Delhi Fort (3 photographs)
A mosque, Delhi Fort
Cashmere Gate, Delhi
Imperial assemblage, Delhi 1877
Monument on Delhi Ridge
Imperial arch, Delhi 1877
Set of portrait photographs (full length, in uniform) headed "Sikhs":
- Infantry officer
- Bengal Cavalry officer
- Infantry officer. Star on breast - Order of Merit for Bravery
- Bengal Lancers Havildar (Sergeant)
- Havildar Pioneers (Sergeant)
- Colour Havildar (Sergeant) Punjabi Infantry
- Private Bengal Lancers
- Sergeant Bengal Lancers. Mussulman caste
- (Pathan) A trooper, Bengal Lancers. 2 good conduct badges on right wrist. Abyssinian Medal
Also untitled photographs of camps (military and Afghani), picquets, workshops, forts, temples, bridges and other civil engineering works, ancient inscribed stone, military parade, groups of Indians, Afghans and Europeans, other photographs apparently of the Delhi Durbar 1877. |