Photograph Album, 126 albumen prints, [c.1880]

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Photograph Album, 126 albumen prints, v.s., each pasted onto thick card leaves, several signed 'Fry and Rahn' in the negative, light fading to some prints, occasional light spotting to mounts, contemporary half morocco, expert restoration to joints, a little rubbed, slight bumping to extremities, oblong folio, [c.1880]. *** A group of photographs and portraits documenting India's social diversity, which feature a mixture of Western colonists and Indian gentry, cavalry and labourers. It also includes landscapes, images or large scale building works in various states of completion and, some images of engines and engine blueprints. Architecturally there is a spread of images of prominent buildings Agra - the Taj Mahal, Tombs of I'timād-ud-Daulah and Sheikh Salim Chisti, and Fatehpur Sikri Palace - and Dehli - the Red Fort, Jama Masjid and Mausoleum of Sufour Jung - from various viewpoints.

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