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Wilberforce-Bell Collection: 'Snapshots 3. 1935-'. Photographer(s): Unknown.

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Photo 1/18
Title
Wilberforce-Bell Collection: 'Snapshots 3. 1935-'. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Date
1934-1954
Description

Red leather album, measuring 240 x 293 mm, in a stitched cloth cover, containing mounted prints with dates and captions in Wilberforce-Bell's hand. The bookplate of Wilberforce-Bell is on the free endpaper. The album contains views of official functions and social life scenes in India and England. Topographical views include a hand-coloured photograph of the Wilberforce-Bell Bridge at Kur in Kolhapur State (Print 54). Various official functions are represented, most notably the installation of the Maharaja of Patiala in 1938 (Prints 60-69). Military photographs include a view of veteran Connaught Rangers, including Wilberforce-Bell, at the Cenotaph in 1947. The album includes a number of portraits of Wilberforce-Bell in old age.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Immediate source of acquisition
Presented by the executors of Sir Harold Wilberforce-Bell, October 1965, via Messrs Parker, Marsh, Charlton and Eastham.
Physical condition
Dimensions: 37 mm x 61 mm to 204 mm x 152 mm.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/07e4a12e-e2c4-45b5-81ae-8db8bb73b22b/

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Wilberforce-Bell Collection: 'Snapshots 3. 1935-'. Photographer(s): Unknown.