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Hyderabad Flood Album.

Catalogue reference: Photo 1024

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Reference
Photo 1024
Title
Hyderabad Flood Album.
Date
1908
Description

Black soft-covered album measuring 458x324mm containing 83 prints pasted-in, the majority with typescript captions beneath each image. A number of the panoramic views in the album are badly torn and folded along the joins. The album provides a graphic documentation of the damage wrought by the disastrous floods of September 1908, when over 18,000 houses were washed away with considerable loss of life, when the Musi flooded its banks after incessant rain. Process = Printing-out paper. Photographers = Lala Deen Dayal & Sons,;.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
Language
Not applicable
Physical description
82 items
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Immediate source of acquisition
Purchased from Spink, October 1996.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/3a7cb4bf-55ff-4213-81d9-5d2c2aa4a480/

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Hyderabad Flood Album.