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Photo 335/6
Title
Herbert Henry Spalding Collection: Album of views in South India and the Middle East. Photographer(s): Penn, Albert Thomas Watson.
Date
1870s-1890s
Description

Black half-leather album, 370x310mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions and/or captions on the negative. The album binding is weak. The photographs include views of Ootacamund, Nilgiri Hills, Palayankottai, Madurai, Coonoor, Bombay, Suez Canal, Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Malta and Aden, as well as ethnographic studies.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Physical description
52 items
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Immediate source of acquisition
Presented by Mr T. R. Smith, April 1973.
Physical condition
Dimensions: 80 mm x 46 mm to 206 mm x 537 mm.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/1c555c3c-9673-4118-8e43-8cffb6275e8a/

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