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Sir James Robert Dunlop Smith Collection: Album of Indian views and ephemera. Photographer(s):...

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Photo 355/7
Title
Sir James Robert Dunlop Smith Collection: Album of Indian views and ephemera. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Date
1900s
Description

Black half-leather album, 245x315mm, containing prints, postcards, newspaper cuttings, greetings cards, theatre programmes, invitations, letters and other ephemera. The majority of the Indian photographs are duplicated elsewhere in the Dunlop Smith Collection. Prints 1-4 Studies of cats and dogs and a reproduction of a painting of Christ. Prints 5-25 Views at Chail including exteriors and interiors of the Residency, the visits of Sir Charles Rivaz and the Maharaja of Patiala, a gymkhana and group portraits. Prints 26-27 Family snapshots at Ballantrae, Scotland. Prints 28-29 A view inside Edinburgh Castle and a painting of Mary Queen of Scots. Prints 30-33 Reproductions of paintings of composers. Print 34 Snapshot of J. R. Dunlop Smith with Indian army officers in camp at the 1903 Delhi Durbar. Print 35 Sir Charles Rivaz opening the memorial to the 36th Sikhs, Firozpur. Prints 36-39 Portraits of the Maharaja of Patiala with Lord Curzon and respective officials and views of Curzon's unveiling of the statue of Queen Victoria in Patiala. Prints 40-41 Portraits of the Raja of Nabha with Lord Curzon and respective officials.

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Physical description
1 item
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Immediate source of acquisition
Deposited on permanent loan by Mrs N. Dunlop and Miss Janet Dunlop-Smith, 1972 and 1973. Transferred from Mss Eur F.166.
Physical condition
Dimensions: 44 mm x 137 mm to 204 mm x 274 mm.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/66a1e882-9a8a-4544-b90a-80dadd7e8ca7/

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