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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Views of India
Creator: Harrington & Norman
Identifier/Call Number: 90.R.42
Physical Description: 108 photographic prints(1 album and 1 print)
Date (inclusive): 1860-1890
Abstract: Photographs of religious and secular monuments and group portraits of local residents in India.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English.
Arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of India, 1860-1890.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Acquired in 1990.
Views of India, 1860-1890, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 90.R.42
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa90r42
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn in 1994; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council
on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 2010. Guynn updated the finding aid in 2021.
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of 107 photographs contains images of well-known Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim monuments, with an emphasis on the
monuments of Mughal India. There are views and details of temples, stupas, mosques, tombs and mausoleums, and fortified palaces.
Locations represented include Agra, Benares (Varansi), Delhi, and Lucknow. The monuments of Agra, such as the Taj Mahal, the
buildings in and around the Red Fort, and Akbar's tomb in nearby Sikandra, are particularly well represented. There are also
several group portraits of Indian families and portraits of Indian of various ethnic groups and professions. The British presence
in India is evident in views of Victorian Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta (Kolkata).
Also included is one loose gelatin silver print of a Jaipur street scene.
The photographers who took most of the photographs in the album have not yet been identified. However, nine photographs are
know to be by Harrington & Norman. These are signed in the negative: Harrington & Norman, Photo's, Calcutta; and/or bear the
firm's wet stamp: Harrington & Company / Photographers / Calcutta & Darjeeling. One photograph bears the blind stamp: G. R.
Lambert & Co. Singapore.
The album has blue and cream cotton brocade covers.
The titles of the individual photographs are from the English captions in the negative or the English annotations on their
versos, as noted. For consistency, titles devised by the cataloger retain the nineteenth century spellings used throughout
the album.
The album was compiled by an unidentified person, probably of English origin.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hindu temples -- India
Buddhist architecture -- India
Taj Mahal (Agra, India)
Studio portraits -- India -- 19th century
Mausoleums -- India
Mosques -- India
Islamic architecture -- India
India -- Description and travel
India -- Antiquities
Calcutta (India) -- Description and travel
Bombay (India) -- Description and travel
Tombs -- India
Gelatin silver prints -- India -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- India -- 19th century
G.R. Lambert & Co