'Aden Residency Bungalow'. Photographer: Unknown

T.11308/1

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The record is made up of 1 albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print. It was created in Mid 1870s. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .

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Genre/Subject Matter :

This photograph shows the 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. bungalow at Aden in the left-hand background. The buildings on the right are likely to be the 'mess-house' or 'quarters of the officers of the Royal Artillery' (p. 9), all of which were situated adjacent to the 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. on a bluff overlooking the sea at Ras Tarshyne, on the westernmost boundary of the Steamer Point peninsula.

A boat at anchor is just visible in the bay behind the 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. .

Two cannon are situated to the right of centre of the empty plain, which takes up most of the middleground, while an empty horse and carriage and barrel stand to the right in the middleground.

Inscriptions:

In pencil, upper right corner adjacent to print: ‘1’.

Extent and format
1 albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print
Physical characteristics

Dimensions:

166 x 233 mm

Format:

1 albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print pasted to backing paper as mounted, folding frontispiece

Materials:

Silver printing-out paper, albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print

Condition:

The print is unevenly hand-cut. There is significant toning at edges, particularly, lower and left and right-hand, as well as along the central fold.

Some tracing marks are evident along lower edge from left and a pen mark 3.5 cm from upper on right-hand edge is post-printing.

Foliation:

‘1’

Process:

Albumen Method of printing photographs using an emulsion of salt and egg white (albumen). print

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English in Latin script
Type
Photograph

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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.
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Unrestricted

Archive reference
T.11308/1

History of this record

Date(s)
Mid 1870s (CE, Gregorian)

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Subjects
Ethnographic heritage
Places
Aden
People & organisations
Frederick Mercer Hunter

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'Aden Residency Bungalow'. Photographer: Unknown, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, T.11308/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023400730.0x00000f> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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