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India, Southeast Asia, and Africa cartes de visite album, manuscript.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 1540
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- India--19th century--Photographs.
- India.
- Genre:
- photograph albums.
- photographs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Sotheby's (New York, NY), 2021.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (37 photographs, 44 leaves); 16 X 12 cm.
- Production:
- India, circa 1860.
- Summary:
- The India, Southeast Asia and Africa album of cartes-de-visite, circa. 1860s contains 37 albumen print by various photographers and studios, displayed recto and verso in thick card mounts. This photographic collection of cartes-de-visite features images mostly of Indian sitters, together with portraits from Southeast Asia, Cochinchina, and Africa (including Zanzibar). Some images feature captions below portraits. Some photographs are unidentified. A few studios are identified on the backs of some of the photographs include: J.L. Eyckerman's Peintre-photographe, St. Denis, Ille de la reunion; Ritter, Molkenteller, Bombay and Poona; and Bourne & Shepherd, an Indian photographic studio and one of the oldest established photographic businesses in the world established in 1863.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Coll. 1540.
- OCLC:
- 1396090830
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