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India [Bengal] Photograph Album, ca. 1897.
Bernath Mss 257LOCAL
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Title:

India [Bengal] Photograph Album, ca. 1897

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

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 8.7 magnitude 1897 Assam earthquake. Also views of mountains, probably the Himalayas; local residents and shopkeepers; and a portrait of a Burmese lady.

Date:

1897 (issued)

Subject:

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Earthquakes -- India -- Assam
Tremblements de terre -- Inde -- Assam
Earthquakes
Bengal (India) -- Pictorial works
Bengale (Inde) -- Ouvrages illustrés
India -- Assam
India -- Bengal

Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.
Purchase, 2006.
Cite as: [Identification of item], India [Bengal] Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 257. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Type:

Photographs.
Photograph
photographs.
photograph albums.
Pictorial works.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Albums photographiques.

Physical Description:

.2 linear ft.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Bernath Mss 257LOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.