Album of views in India, the Middle East and Europe. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox

Content

Genre/Subject Matter:

The album contains historical landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views at Udaipur, Mount Abu, Bombay, Aden, Suez Canal, Boulogne, various locations in England, Sialkot, Jammu and Marala [Murala].

Elements:

1 ‘Udaipur: Fateh Sagar.’

2 ‘Mount Abu: Plains from “The Crags”’

3 ‘Mount Abu: Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. & Lake.”

4 ‘Mount Abu: Lake & Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. .’

5 ‘Mount Abu: from Cart Road’

6 ‘Mount Abu: Road to Dilwara’

7 ‘Mount Abu: Dilwara temples’

8 ‘Mount Abu: Dilwara Temples (Adinath).’

9 ‘Mount Abu: Dilwara Temples(Adinath).’

10 Mount Abu: Dilwara Temples (Adinath).’

11 ‘Mount Abu: Dilwara Temples (Nemnath).’

12 ‘Mount Abu: Dilwara Temples (Nemnath).’

13 ‘Mount Abu: Dilwara Temples (Nemnath).’

14 ‘Bombay: S.S. “Ranchi”’

15 ‘Arabian Sea: S.S. “Ranchi”’

16 ‘Aden: Steamer Point’

17 ‘Aden: S.S. “Ranchi”’

18 ‘Aden: S.S. “Mantua”’

19 ‘Suez Canal’

20 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery. L.A.S.F.’

21 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery. L.A.S.F.’

22 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery. L.A.S.F.’

23 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery. L.A.S.F.’

24 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery. L.A.S.F.’

25 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery. L.A.S.F. (1st grave)’

26 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery.

27 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery. L.A.S.F. (1st grave)’

28 ‘Boulogne: Eastern Cemetery. L.A.S.F.’

29 ‘Glaisdale: I.E.S.F., P.M.S.F., W.E.S.F., M.F., E.S.F.’

30 ‘Sandsend: P.M.S.F., W.C.S.F.’

31 ‘Saltersgate: E.S.F., M.F., I.E.S.F., P.M.S.F., W.C.S.F.’

32 ‘Saltersgate: W.C.S.F., E.A.S.F., E.S.F., M.F., I.E.S.F.’

33 ‘Lilla Cross: I.E.S.F.’

34 ‘Fountains Abbey: P.M.S.F., I.E.S.F., W.C.S.F.’

35 ‘Sialkot: Soldier’s Home & W.C.S.F.’

36 ‘Sialkot: Holy Trinity Church’

37 Sialkot: E.C.B. and “Amy”’

38 ‘Sialkot: Holy Trinity Church’

39 ‘Sialkot: Holy Trinity Church’

40 ‘Sialkot: Holy Trinity Church’

41 ‘Sialkot: Holy Trinity Church’

42 ‘Sialkot: 4th/7th Dragoon Guards’

43 ‘Sialkot: 4th/7th Dragoon Guards’

44 ‘Sialkot: 4th/7th Dragoon Guards’

45 ‘Jammu.’

46 ‘Jammu.’

47 ‘Jammu.’

48 ‘Marala: River Chenab’

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.

This has been crossed out, also in pencil.

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

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’

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

'Arabian Sea: S. S. "Ranchi"'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/10/15

'Aden: Steamer Point'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/10/16

'Aden: S.S. "Ranchi"'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/10/17

'Aden: S.S. "Mantua"'

1 image

Ref: Photo 496/10/18

Physical characteristics

Dimensions:

243 x 163 mm

Materials:

Mid-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 mounting.

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 496/10

History of this record

Date(s)

1925-28 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Steamships

Places

AdenArabian Sea

People & organisations

Edwin Aubrey Storrs Fox

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