Album of views in India and the Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox

Content

Genre/Subject Matter:

The album contains historical landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views and portraits in British India, including at Bhopal, Karachi, Simla and in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

Elements:

1 ‘Bhopal: Regatta’

2 ‘Bhopal: The Yacht Club’

3 ‘Bhopal: “Sultana”’

4 ‘Bhopal: “Mahshuka” with H.H. The Begum’

5 ‘Bhopal’

6 ‘Bhopal’

7 ‘Bhopal: upper Lake’

8 ‘Manora: “Boojum”’

9 ‘Manora: Chaplain’s Bungalow. 1916–1918’

10 Manora: Dhanji and “Boojum”’

11 Manora: The Temple’

12 ‘Maghir Pir: The Tank’

13 ‘Sandspits: “Elise”’

14 ‘Karachi Creeks’

15 Karachi River: Choir Picnic. Feb. 1917’

16 Karachi Creeks: Choir Picnic. Feb. 1917’

17 ‘Nanal: Choir Picnic. Feb. 1917’

18 ‘Nanal: Choir Picnic. Feb. 1917’

19 ‘Karachi Harbour’

20 Karachi: Victoria Gardens’

21 ‘Karachi: Victoria Gardens’

22 ‘Karachi: Victoria Gardens’

23 ‘Karachi: City’

24‘Manora: Lieut. Coombes’

25 ‘Nanal: Choir Picnic. Dec. 1917’

26 ‘Nanal: Choir Picnic. Dec .1917’

27 ‘Manora: R. E. Bungalow’

28 ‘Manora: R. E. Bungalow’

29 ‘Manora: “Carro”, Butler’

30 ‘Manora: Captain Farewell’s Servants’

31 ‘Sedab’

32 ‘Mohammerah’

33 ‘Mohammerah’

34 ‘Mohammerah’

35 ‘Oyster Rocks: W. C. I. F.’

36 ‘Karachi Harbour [Portrait of E. A. Storrs-Fox]’

37 ‘Oyster rocks: W. C. I. F.’

38 ‘Oyster Rocks: E. A. S. F.’

39 ‘Karachi: W. C. I. F. & Vivian & Jill Spong’

40 ‘Karachi: Vivian Spong’

41 ‘Karachi: Jill Spong’

42 ‘Karachi: E. A. S. F.’

43 ‘Manora: Anne Farewell’

44 ‘Simla: From Prospect Hill’

45 ‘Simla: Christ Church Cottage’

46 ‘Simla: Christ Church Cottage. Dining Room’

47 ‘Simla: Christ Church Cottage. Drawing Room’

48 ‘Simla: Christ Church Cottage. Drawing Room’

Distinctive Features:

Each window mount is formed of a two-tone card and paper cut out: the dark brown paper of the album is laid over a cream-coloured mounting card, which forms a c. 2–4 mm frame around each image.

Inscriptions:

Brief handwritten captions in English, including dates, accompany each print.

In pencil a consecutive numbering system (1–48) is written alongside each image, usually near the lower right corner of the image.

An alternative image sequence (a–b only, sequence repeats on each page) is indicated in pencil near the upper left corner of each image.

Pagination – since crossed out – is indicated in the upper right or left corner of each page.

Labels:

A gold, stamped design appears in the lower right corner of the front cover of the album with a sun-like symbol and the words ‘PHOTO: GRAPHS’

In the lower left corner of the inside back cover a black ink stamp reads: ‘PHOTO DPT HARRODS LTD.’

Extent and format

48 b&w silver gelatin The principal photographic process used for black and white photography from the 1870s. prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album

It is grouped into

'Sedab'. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/7/31

'Mohammerah'. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/7/32

'Mohammerah'. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/7/33

'Mohammerah'. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/7/34

Physical characteristics

Dimensions:

243 x 163 mm

Materials:

Light brown cloth, dark brown paper, cream-coloured card, silver gelatin The principal photographic process used for black and white photography from the 1870s. prints, black ink and pencil.

Condition:

The album is in good condition except for minor surface dirt throughout. Several images are buckling and rising out of their mounts due to incorrect sizing while others are bowed due to overall bowing of the upper part of each page.

Foliation:

‘a–b’; ‘1–48’; ‘1–24’

Process:

Silver gelatin The principal photographic process used for black and white photography from the 1870s. print

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Photograph

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Photo 496/7

History of this record

Date(s)

1916-19 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

BhopalKarachiSimla

People & organisations

Edwin Aubrey Storrs Fox

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Album of views in India and the Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Photo 496/7, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100022635325.0x000001> [accessed 19 April 2024]

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