Call Number:

Ms. Coll. 1703

Repository:

University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Extent:

.1 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

India photograph album, circa 1901, Ms. Coll. 1703, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Date:

circa 1901

Form:

Photograph albums

Abstract:

This album contains 100 photographs taken by an unidentified individual, likely a soldier with the British Indian Army, in India during the early 20th century.

Little is known about the creator of this album other than that he was likely a soldier in the British military during the early 20th century.

The Northern Command of the British Indian Army was headquartered in Rawalpindi as early as 1849.

This album contains 100 photographs taken by an unidentified individual, likely a soldier with the British Indian Army, in India during the early 20th century.

The album is bound in green cloth covers with a gold embossed stamp and is No. S1446 of The Newlyn Album produced by Johnson's of London.

The photographs document both military life in the British Indian Army and tourism and local life in India in the early 20th century.

There are group portraits of British men and soldiers (p. 3, 20-22), photographs of barracks (p. 1, 3), and the British Indian Army's Northern Command headquarters in Rawalpindi (p. 16-17). There are also tourist-style photographs of architecture and landmarks in Lahore (p. 4, 6), Bombay (p. 5, 12-14, 23), Agra (p. 9), and Delhi (p. 9, 11). There are also photographs of sugar cultivation (p. 4), parades and festivals (p. 6, 13, 22), women playing tennis (p. 7), and Bazaar Murree (p. 23).