Preliminary Guide to the India [Bengal] Photograph Album
Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
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Preliminary Guide to the India [Bengal] Photograph Album, ca. 1897
Collection number: Bernath Mss 257
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Oct. 27, 2010
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: One album containing 22 black and white photographs, a few with captions in English.
Physical location: Del Norte.
Languages:
English
None.
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permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
India [Bengal] Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 257. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
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.
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.