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Carte de visite portrait of Tazeena Harrison (née Waller). Photographer: Clarkington...
Catalogue reference: Photo 1340
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This record is about the Carte de visite portrait of Tazeena Harrison (née Waller). Photographer: Clarkington... dating from 1860s.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Photo 1340
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Title (The name of the record)
- Carte de visite portrait of Tazeena Harrison (née Waller). Photographer: Clarkington and Co (Regent Street, London)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1860s
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Description (What the record is about)
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Half-length left profile carte de visite portrait of Tazeena Harrison (née Waller). A biographical note from the donor records: 'In Vincent Eyre's Journal of an Afghanistan Prisoner ... it is recorded ... that on 20 Apr 1842, at Fort Tazeen, Afghanistan, Mrs Waller, wife of Lieutenant H. Waller of the Bengal Horse Artillery, was delivered of a daughter ... She was given the name Tazeena (sic). About 20 years later, at Kandy, Tazeena Waller married George Denis Browne Harrison, a civil engineer from Dublin, who had gone to Ceylon to survey a route for a railway from Colombo to Kandy, then repaired the 'tanks' (reservoirs) and subsequently became manager of a coffee plantation near Kandy ... [He later] introduced tea-growing in Ceylon ... Later, for the sake of his wife's health, he moved to Bristol, where he managed a chemical works. There his daughter Frances Maud Harrison married a neighbour who was a master at Clifton College: the Revd Edward Hardin Firth. They were my maternal grandparents...'.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 item
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Unrestricted. Appointment Required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Given by Dr T. C. Carter, 17 May 1999
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Albumen print carte de visite. dimensions 87 mm x 58 mm
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/26a551e3-0b94-4a2c-b197-d190a17c0a07/
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Carte de visite portrait of Tazeena Harrison (née Waller). Photographer: Clarkington and Co (Regent Street, London)