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

Brown mock-leather post-bound album, 312x432mm, containing captioned prints mounted with adhesive corner mounts, several to a page. The photographs are mainly snaphot views and portraits with a few additional professional portraits. Two original photograph envelopes from the Bannu firm, B.D. Arora & Sons, accompany the album. Prints 1-71 Views in Kashmir, 1938, including mountain and river scenes, camps, portraits of bearers, markhor hunting and views of Gurais, Bunzil Pass, Astor, Bunji, Nanga Parbat, Jutial Nullah, Srinagar and Gandarbal. Prints 72-80 Miscellaneous snapshot portraits and views, 1938. Print 81 Portrait of 1st Sikhs Recruits Hockey Team, Sialkot, 1938-39, with P.B. Janson. Prints 82-87 Training Battalion, Sialkot. Display by P.T. staff. Prints 88-100 1st Sikhs training camp, near Bannu, 1939. Prints 101-112 Portraits and views at Kathwai, Salt Range, Christmas 1939. Prints 113-130 Views of military maneouvres, Ahmedzai Salient, Bannu District, 1940. Prints 131-132 Interiors of the 1st Sikhs Mess, Bannu. Print 133 Group portrait on the occasion of Rob Lockhart's farewell, Bannu, 1939, including British and Indian officers of the 1st Sikhs. Prints 134-150 Views of Vengurla and Tellicherry in South India. Print 151 Group portrait of British officers (all named), captioned: 'Dean Cup, Miranshah, April 1939'. Print 152 Company of 1st Sikhs (?) with British officers including P.B. Janson. Prints 153-158 Views of the cantonment at Sabathu. Prints 159-162 Mir Ali Camp views, Waziristan, 1940. Print 163 Portrait of J.B. Janson and Neville Finnis. Prints 164 Regiment at Bannu Railway Station en route to Jhelum. Prints 165-170 The Shinki, Bannu-Razmak Road, 1940, including views of picquets and column on the march. Prints 171-206 Military camps in the Punjab and Waziristan, 1941, including camp scenes, military exercises and views of countryside. Prints 207-211 Tochi Scouts, 1941, including football team. Prints 212-245 Views in Kashmir, 1942-43, including Liddar Valley and Gurais Valley. Print 246 Large group of unidentified British officers, Belgaum, 1940.

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