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Cooper's Hill Collection: Photographs of the Delhi Durbar 1911 and miscellaneous...
Catalogue reference: Photo 1123/2
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This record is a file about the Cooper's Hill Collection: Photographs of the Delhi Durbar 1911 and miscellaneous... dating from 1904-1930.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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Photo 1123/2
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Title (The name of the record)
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Cooper's Hill Collection: Photographs of the Delhi Durbar 1911 and miscellaneous views relating to engineering work in the Indian Telegraph Department. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd and others.
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Date (When the record was created)
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1904-1930
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Description (What the record is about)
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Soft covered album measuring 390 x 315mm, containing 88 prints, compiled (and many probably taken) by John Patrick Gordon Cameron, a former Cooper's Hill student and later engineer with the Indian Telegraphs Department. The contents consists of a series of 16 professionally taken views (by Bourne and Shepherd) of the 1911 Coronation Durbar at Delhi, with two maps relating to the event and a typescript lists of Cooper's Hill students involved in the organisation of the event (prints 1-18); 7 photographs taken in 1907 relating to the construction in Assam of the Indo-Burma Telegraph Line (prints 19-25); 12 views of the penal settlement at Port Blair, Andaman Islands (prints 26-37); 6 views of a wagon-mounted telegraph station being hauled across a river between Kohat and Thal in 1914 (prints 38-43); 3 panoramic views of the ceremonial presentation of a letter from George V to representatives of the Amir of Afghanistan in 1914 (prints 44-46); 10 views relating to the erection of a radio station at Basra, 1915-16 (prints 47-56); portrait group of Cooper's Hill men (print 57); 11 views relating to the re-erection of thw Agra-Delhi Telegraph, 1930 (prints 58-68); 11 views of Baghdad, 1917 (prints 69-79); 9 miscellaneous snapshots of Cooper's Hill, c. 1904-06 (prints 80-88).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- British Library: Asian and African Studies
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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Mss Eur F239/23
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Language (The language of the record)
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Not applicable
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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79 items
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Unrestricted. Appointment Required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Gift, Presented to the Cooper's Hill Society by J. P. G. Cameron; transferred from OIOC European Manuscripts Section, formerly Mss Eur F239/23.
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
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Dimensions: 75 mm x 50 mm to 295 mm x 212 mm.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/d64114af-e123-4dd9-beef-70021a5305e3/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at British Library: Asian and African Studies
Within the fonds: Photo
British Library Photo Collection
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Cooper's Hill Collection: Photographs relating to Cooper's Hill and civil engineering...
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Cooper's Hill Collection: Photographs of the Delhi Durbar 1911 and miscellaneous views relating to engineering work in the Indian Telegraph Department. Photographer(s): Bourne and Shepherd and others.