Descriptive Summary
Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: India [Bengal] Photograph Album
Dates: ca. 1897
Collection number: Bernath Mss 257
Collection Size:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: One album containing 22 black and white photographs, a few with captions in English.
Physical location: Del Norte.
Languages:
English
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
India [Bengal] Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 257. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2006.
Scope and Content of Collection
One album containing 22 black and white photographs, a few with captions in English, showing the Kamarhatty [West Bengal]
Jute Mill, jute flats, a snake charmer, a side-wheeler, earthquake damage on Bentinck St. [Calcutta] from the 1897 magnitude
8.7 Assam, India earthquake. Also views possibly of the Himalayas, local residents, and shopkeepers, as well as a portrait
of a Burmese lady.
There is no container list for this collection.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
West Bengal (India)
Calcutta (India)
Earthquakes--India--Assam.