Lot 371
India: 2 photograph albums
dating from the 1880s and 1910s
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
£575
Description
the first album, c.1880, containing 32 photographs of India, including many images of tea plantations and the temples at Siliguri, albumen prints, between 17 x 10cm and 22 x 18.5cm, alongside many photographs taken in the United Kingdom, some fading; the second album dated c.1915, containing 185 photographs of Southern India, mainly silver gelatin prints, showing landscape, local people and Western emmigrants, many captioned to the photographs in ink, several severely faded, one torn, between 9 x 6cm and 21 x 16cm (2)