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Views of India
2002.R.5
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Views of India
Creator: Nicholas & Co. (Madras, India)
Identifier/Call Number: 2002.R.5
Physical Description: 31 photographic prints
Date (inclusive): 1858-1890
Abstract: Photographs of religious monuments, landscapes, and city views in various cities in India.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in English and French.
The collection is arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of India, 1858-1890.
The 31 albumen photographs in the collection were taken in India by various photographers, known and unknown, between the
1860s and 1890s.
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Acquired in 2002.
Views of India, 1858-1890, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2002.R.5
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r5
Processed and cataloged by Beth Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library
and Information Resources (CLIR).
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection of 31 albumen prints from a disbound album contains images of well-known Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Jain
monuments, as well as a few landscape and city views. There are views and details of temples, stupas, mosques, tombs and mausoleums,
and fortified palaces. Locations represented include Agra, Benares (Varanasi), Jaipur, Madras, Ellora, Mont Abu, Ahmedabad,
and Delhi.
Two photographs bear the blindstamp: Nicholas & Co. Madras. Two additional photographs are attributed on the mount to Nicholas
& Co.
The titles of the individual photographs are taken from the nineteenth-century captions and annotations written on the mounts
or versos of the photographs by an unidentified person(s) as noted. Consequently, some titles may include language now considered
to be racist or biased.
The collection was digitized in 2024 and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002r5
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Albumen prints -- India -- 19th century
India -- Description and travel
India -- Antiquities
Tombs -- India
Hindu temples -- India
Mosques -- India
Mausoleums -- India
Islamic architecture -- India
Buddhist architecture -- India
Hindu architecture -- India
Jaina architecture
Jaina temples -- India
Buddhist temples -- India