Lieut-Colonel Philip Bowen Janson Collection: Album of views and portraits in India...

Post-bound album, 305x422mm, with missing covers and pages tied together with orange cord. Only the front free endpaper covers the first page of prints. The prints are mounted with adhesive corner mounts, several to a page, and are captioned by hand. The photographs are mainly snaphots views and portraits with a few additional professional portraits. Prints 1-39 Views and portraits in Chitral during a trek to Kashmir via Gilgit, April-June 1935, including mountain scenery, Mastuj, village scenes, glaciers and camps. Prints 40-99 Views and portraits in Gilgit Agency, April-June 1935, including paying hill porters, Darkot, Naltar Valley, Hunza, Aliabad, Baltit Fort, portrait of the Mir of Hunza and sons, Hispar Glacier and camps. Prints 100-107 Portraits and views in Kashmir, including bearers and orderlies and Srinagar. Prints 108-114 South Waziristan Scouts Inter-Wing Sports, 1935-36, including portraits of winning teams, tug-of-war, athletics and football. Prints 115-120 Christmas leave, 1935-36, including views of Kalabagh on the Indus. Prints 121-129 Mountain scenery, Kohat District, 1936. Prints 130-133 Four general snapshot views of the Taj Mahal, Agra. Prints 134-155 Tiger hunting scenes and portraits in Mandla District, Central Province, February 1936, including dead tigers and skins. Prints 156-158 Voyage to England, March 1936, including views of shipping at Aden and Gibraltar. Prints 159-174 Views in Austria, April 1936. Prints 175-180 Views in Scotland, July 1936. Prints 181-183 Croydon to Karachi, September 1936, views of Imperial Airways planes. Prints 184-186 Picnic near Saugor, Christmas 1936. Prints 187-192 Orial hunting, March 1937, Kalla Chikas. Prints 193-198 Portraits of dogs and colleagues of P.B. Janson at Sialkot. Prints 199-203 Maizar Day Sports, 10th June 1937, Sialkot. Prints 204-209 Viceroy's Guard at Simla, 1937. Prints 210-221 Views of mountains and rivers in Kulu, August 1937. Prints 222-227 Mountain scenery, Shahur Tangi, Waziristan, 1937.

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