Place: India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) World War II photograph album, 1945 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
Abstract:: This collection is composed of one volume of photos taken in India by a member of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India), W.A.C. (I), in 1945. A majority of the photographs capture local sights, mostly in Dagshai, Delhi, and New Dehli.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

British soldier's photograph album of India, circa 1920s-1930s (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
Abstract:: This collection is composed of several hundred photographs taken in India and Egypt, probably by a British soldier during the 1930s.

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India, Burma and Ceylon photograph album, 1945 october-1947 january (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
Abstract:: This collection of about 200 photographs represents the time a young woman spent in India from October of 1945 to January of 1947, while she was likely working at military hospitals.

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India photograph album, 1945 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.8 linear feet (1 volume and 1 folder)
Abstract:: This photograph album captures the daily life of rural Indians in 1945 as seen by either an American or British military doctor.

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Karachi, Bombay, and Lahore photograph album, circa 1945-1950 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear feet (1 volume and 1 folder)
Abstract:: This volume consists of photographs of Karachi, Bombay, and Lahore, that may have been taken at the end of World War II. There are several loose post-war photographs that may have been taken in the creator's hometown, possibly in Canada.

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Photograph album by a British soldier, 1945 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Photograph album by an unknown British soldier in 1945. The album contains black-and-white snapshots of the soldier's journey from Italy to Quetta, Pakistan.

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Razmak Brigade photograph album, 1930s (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.1 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: This photograph album, created by an unidentified British soldier, contains pictures from the Razmak Brigade (located along the North West Frontier of India, near Afghanistan) during the 1930s, likely during the Waziristan campaign. The album documents the wartime realities and daily life of the soldiers and locals in the region.

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Joshua Pickersgill letters regarding the Third Anglo-Maratha War, 1818 march-november (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.2 linear_foot (1 box)
Abstract:: Joshua Pickersgill (1780-1818) was a British lieutenant in the Bengal Army under the East India Company during the Third Anglo-Maratha War (known at the time as the Third Mahratta War). These letters, addressed to "Sir" are dated between March 18 and August 7, 1818 and describe, in detail, military activities as they occurred.

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Photograph album by a British soldier in India, 1918 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Comprising forty-five black-and-white photographs by a British soldier in 1918. The images are chiefly of Nāsik, India.

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Sir Malcolm Hailey photograph album of Sarda Canal, 1928 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear feet (1 volume)
Abstract:: This album is a presentation photograph album given to Sir Malcolm Hailey, later 1st Baron Hailey, by Moona Lal and Sons, photographers. Hailey was governor of the Punjab from 1924 to 1928 and of the United Provinces from 1928 to 1930. The twenty-six photographs in the volume document the completion of the first stages of the works on the Sarda Canal, United Provinces (now Uttar Preadesh).

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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