Bailey Collection: Abor Expedition, 1911-1912 Photographer(s): Bailey, Frederick...

Blue half-leather bound album measuring 416 mm x 30 mm, uniform with Photo 1083/34. Like that album, the binding is in very poor condition, with boards and album pages detached, spine ripped and disintegrating. Some damp damage [Note: album conserved and rebound 2015]. The condition of the album pages themselves is reasonable, and most of the prints are in fair condition. Prints are mounted three to a page, with captions written in pencil at the side of the prints. In numbering the prints Bailey has used two sequences, the first for what are now prints 1-101, then starting a fresh sequence for the Abor material which continues into the following album: this division by subject matter, which creates duplicate numbering in a single album, is potentially confusing, and for the purposes of this catalogue this and following albums have been renumbered so that each volume contains a single numerical sequence. The prints in this album can be broken down as follows:. Prints 1-129 Bailey's numbering: 64-190, plus four unnumbered prints. Continuation of Mss Eur F157/479, recording Bailey's time with the Abor Expedition and his mission to the Chulikatta Mishmi country. With a few views of his return journey down the Brahmaputra en route to Calcutta at the conclusion of the trip. There are loose duplicates of many of the photographs from this series at Mss Eur F157/487 (120-162). These loose prints are generally in better condition than those mounted in this album. Prints 130-174 Bailey's numbering 1-44, plus one unnumbered print. Prints 130-153 are social scenes at Aligarh, 1912, followed by prints 154-174, which show the start of his second journey to Assam, starting in December 1912 (for details see introduction to Mss Eur F157/481).

Duplicates of some of the material in this album at Photo 1083/42.

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