Hart, Vincent (1881-1939), Engineer-in-Chief of the Construction. Extensive Archive of ca. 150 Original Gelatin Photographs (88 Mounted in the Album, ca. 60 Loose Ones, and Two Loose Real Photo Postcards), Documenting the Construction of the Mettur Dam on the Kaveri River in the Madras Presidency of British India; With: a Rare Indian Government Imprint, Two Typewritten Letters Signed and over a Dozen Related Newspaper Clippings. Ca. 1930-1934.
Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Taken and Collected by an Associate of the “Assam Oil Company” and Showing the Company Settlement with Bungalows, Oil Reservoirs and Railway Tracks, Construction of Oil Derricks, Arriving Train (apparently, of the Assam Railway & Trading Co.), Company’s Associates, Native People of Assam, Working Elephants, &c. Ca. 1900s.
Hoerlin, Herman (1903-1983), Schneider, Erwin (1906-1987); Kurz, Marcel (1887-1967); Wieland, Uli (1902-1934); [Dyhrenfurth, Günter] (1886-1975). Collection of Seventy-One Large Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1930 International Himalaya Expedition to Kangchenjunga. Ca. 1930.
Two Albums with 192 Original Vernacular Gelatin Silver Photographs of British India, Showing Nainital (General Views, Hotel Metropole, Naina Devi Temple, “Trevillion & Clark” Shop on the Mall Rd., Cricket Game), Events of the 1911 Delhi Durbar, Kolkata, Kanpur, Jabalpur, Portraits of “a Bridegroom Robed for Wedding,” “a Holy Man – Fakir at Marble Rocks near Jubblepore,” Native People, British Residents, &c. Ca. 1910s.
Album with 96 Original Gelatin Silver Photos from Big Game Hunting Trips in the Nilgiri Mountains, Kanara Jungle and Valleys of Godavari and Wardha Rivers in the Central and Southern India. Ca. 1921-1926.
Bourne & Shepherd; Burke, John (ca. 1843-1900); Nicholas & Co.; Scowen & Co.; Skeen & Co.; Pont, V.&E., and Others. Album with Forty-Nine Large Albumen Photographs of British India and Ceylon. Ca. 1880s-1890s.
[Faulkner, Farr. G.J.?] Album with 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars’ Military Service on the North West Frontier, Showing Group Portraits of the Regiment’s Officers, Military Marches and Reviews, Cantonments, Khyber Pass, Landi Kotal, Peshawar, Lahore, Attock, Aerial Views of the Himalayas, Nowshera, Jamrud and Attock Forts, Taj Mahal, Delhi, Gilgit Landing Ground, Takht-i-Bahi Ruins near Mardan, Destruction after the 1935 Quetta Earthquake, Robert Baden-Powell in Risalpur. Ca. 1920s-1930s.
Dyhrenfurth, Günter (1886-1975); Dyhrenfurth, Harriet Pauline “Hettie” (1892-1972); Angst, Richard (1905-1984); Eetl, Hans (1908-2000); Höcht, Albert (1906-1992); Belaieff, James; Ghiglione, Piero; and others.Collection of 189 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken during the 1934 “International Himalaya Expedition” to the Karakoram – the Upper Baltoro Glacier, and Sia Kangri (Queen Mary Peak) and Baltoro Kangri (the Golden Throne) Mountains. Ca. 1934.
Cleather, William H., Captain‚ 1st Ceylon Regiment (1783-1820). Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed “W.H. Cleather” to his Sister Mary Littlehales, Describing his Early Service in the Military Regiment in British Ceylon, with notes on His Travel to Ceylon on Board HMS Thalia, Colombo Garrison and Officers, Local Society, Day Schedule et al. 1805-6.
Album with 56 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing British Rubber and Tea Plantations in the Kelani Valley, Sri Lanka, Including the Kiriporuwa Estate of the “Nagolle Rubber and Tea Plantations Ltd.” and Halpe Estate of the “Ceylon Rubber Co. Ltd.,” Their Managers, Native Workers, Rubber Harvesting Operations, &c. 1913-1914.