Album of snapshot views in India.

Black cloth-covered post-bound album, 230x320mm, containing uncaptioned prints mounted several to a page with corner mounts. Prints 1-9 Miscellaneous snapshots, including the Kanpur Memorial Well, New Delhi, NWFP road sign, memorials and a view of an upturned truck. Prints 10-13 Views of a Hindu wedding, dancers and a bazaar. Prints 14-27 Miscellaneous architectural snapshots, including the Golden Temple (Amritsar), Taj Mahal (Agra), Husainabad Imambara (Lucknow) and New Delhi. Prints 28-35 Miscellaneous views, including Chaubattia church and cantonment, a temple ghat scene and British Army regimental crests. Prints 36-39 Road scenes in NWFP. Prints 40-42 Cartooon drawings depicting hot weather headwear. Prints 43-45 Portraits of an Indian Army orderly and Indian women. Prints 46-49 Snapshot views of Risalpur Station, a railway bridge, a gun carriage on a train and a distant view of a fort. Prints 50-56 Miscellaneous snapshots, including a farmer ploughing, portrait of Nadir Khan the King of Afghanistan, Mysore state elephants and zoo animals. Prints 57-60 Miscellaneous snapshots of unidentified architecture. Print 61 The Jailors Club, Peshawar. Prints 62-67 Miscellaneous snapshots, including views of Landi Kotal, Indian potters, Bhutanis preparing food and the Kashmir Gate at Delhi. Prints 68-70 Portraits of a woman carrying a pot, a snake charmer and an elderly woman. Prints 71-72 Peshawar street scenes? Prints 73-75 Miscellaneous snapshot portraits, including a NWFP tribesman and a dhobi. Prints 76-77 Views of two dead Indian men on stretchers, killed by the army? Prints 78-80 Studio portraits of Indian women. Prints 81-92 Miscellaneous snapshots, including a bazaar, road scenes in NWFP, portraits, a bullock carriage and dhobis. Print 93 'The Frontier ''Loosewala'' or religious fanatic, shot near West Ridge Barracks, Rawalpindi'. Prints 94-101 Miscellaneous snapshots, including Naini Tal?, Chaubattia cantonment and earthquake damage in NWFP. Print 102 The crest of the South Lancashire (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment at Landi Kotal, 1932-33. Prints 103-122 Views of destruction caused by the 1935 Quetta earthquake. Prints 123-124 Portraits of an unidentified woman and an army football team. Prints 125-127 Views in the NWFP, including Landi Kotal and the India-Afghanistan border. Print 128 Mutilated bodies of 'Loose-wallahs', Peshawar. Print 129 Execution of a 'Loose-wallah', hung upside down and shot. Prints 130-141 Miscellaneous snapshots, including bathing and washing clothes in a river, the Gateway of India (Bombay), memorial to the 60th Battery Royal Field Artillery, frontier sign-post, NWFP views. Prints 142-148 Troopships, including the Dorsetshire, Lancashire, Nevasa, Neuralia, Dilwara and Somersetshire. Prints 149-153 Miscellaneous snapshots in England. Process = Gelatine silver prints. Photographers = Unknown.,;.

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