India photograph album : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Photographs.

India.

Genre:

photograph albums.

Photographs.

Manuscripts, English -- 20th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Antiquates Fine and Rare Books (Dorset, England), 2025

Physical Description:

1 volume (24 pages) ; 19 x 23 cm

Production:

India, circa 1901.

Summary:

This album contains 100 photographs taken by an unidentified individual, likely a soldier with the British Indian Army, in India during the early 20th century. The album is bound in green cloth covers with a gold embossed stamp and is No. S1446 of The Newlyn Album produced by Johnson’s of London. The photographs document both military life in the British Indian Army and tourism and local life in India in the early 20th century. There are group portraits of British men and soldiers (p. 3, 20-22), photographs of barracks (p. 1, 3), and the British Indian Army’s Northern Command headquarters in Rawalpindi (p. 16-17). There are also tourist-style photographs of architecture and landmarks in Lahore (p. 4, 6), Bombay (p. 5, 12-14, 23), Agra (p. 9), and Delhi (p. 9, 11). There are also photographs of sugar cultivation (p. 4), parades and festivals (p. 6, 13, 22), women playing tennis (p. 7), and Bazaar Murree (p. 23).

Cited as:

India World War I Photograph Album (Ms. Coll. 1703). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.