Vibart Collection: Views in South India. Photographer(s): Johnson and Henderson.

Loose prints mounted on modern acid-free card and inserted in Secol sleeves. The original captions are mounted below each print. The prints can be broken down into the following broad subject groups:. Prints 1-43 Views in Bombay, Elephanta, the Bhore Ghat Railway Incline and others parts of western India. A number of these are by Johnson & Henderson and duplicate material in Photo 140, and several more in this series at present unattributed are also almost certainly by them. Prints 44-57 These views of Bijapur form an incomplete set of Henry Hinton's publication The Ruins of Beejapoor (Bombay, 1860), a series of 19 views. The accompanying letterpress to this work is included with the collection. Prints 58-102 Views of Madras, Bangalore, Ootacamund, Tirunveli and other locations in southern India. Among this material is Hooper & Western's series of Tiger Shooting photographs, some of which are duplicated and some of which appear in variant form in Photo 2/2. Prints 103-111 Photographic copies of sketches recording the damage done by the 1864 cyclone at Masulipatam. Print 112 View of Government House, Rangoon. Prints 113-8 Views of Cairo by William Hammerschmidt. Print 119 Portrait of an unidentified lady.

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