Finding Aid for Views of India, 1858-1890 2002.R.5
Beth Ann Guynn
Special Collections
2010
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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.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in a single series: Series I. Views of India, 1858-1890.
Biographical/Historical Note
The 31 albumen photographs in the collection were taken in India by various photographers, known and unknown, between the
1860s and 1890s.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 2002.
Preferred Citation
Views of India, 1858-1890, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2002.R.5
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002r5
Processing History
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.
Digitized Material
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
Views of India, Series I
1858-1890
Views of India: [1858-1890]
Arrangement
In no discernable order. Arranged by archivist.
box 1
Nicholas & Co. (attributed), Madura, Teppakul 2002.R.5-1
Scope and Contents
Title from verso. On mount: Nicholas. Madura. The annotation attributes the photograph to Nicholas & Co. View of Mariamman
Teppakulam reservoir, Madurai.
box 1
Photographer unidentified, Madura, Entrance to the Palace 2002.R.5-2
Scope and Contents
Title from verso, the second line is cut off. Numbered in negative: 31. Written on mount: Madura. (Madurai).
box 1
Photographer unidentified, Madura Temple, Gold Lily Tank 2002.R.5-3
Scope and Contents
Title from verso. On mount: Madura. View of the Golden Lotus Tank, Meenakshi Temple, Madurai.
box 1
Nicholas & Co. (attributed), Seven Pagodas, General View of Rathan 2002.R.5-4
Scope and Contents
Title from verso. On mount: Nicholas. Sen.
box 1
Nicholas & Co., Madura, Great Gopuram 2002.R.5-5
Scope and Contents
Title from verso. Blindstamp in photo: Nicholas & Co. Madras. On mount: Nicholas and Co. Madras. View of the entrance with
temple tower in background, Meenakshi Temple, Madurai.
box 1
Nicholas & Co., Madura, Genel [sic] View from Gopuram 2002.R.5-6
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered on verso: 21. Blindstamp in photo: Nicholas & Co. Madras. On mount: Madura.General view of Meenakshi temple
complex, Madurai.
box 1
Photographer unidentified, A Ekka, Benares 2002.R.5-7
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered in negative: 1062. Depicts a horse cart.
box 1
Photographer unidentified, Tour du silence, Bombay, Parsi 2002.R.5-8
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. For another copy of this image see Special Collections accession no. 90.R.42-4v.
box 1
Photographer unidentified, [Train Going through Mountains] 2002.R.5-9
box 1
Photographer unidentified, Grottes 2002.R.5-10
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. Shows interior reliefs: elephants with Buddhas in niches above; yakshi and yaksha figures.
box 2
Photographer unidentified, Jeypore, Amber Chowk 2002.R.5-11
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered in negative: 262. View of Jaipur and Amber Fort.
box 2
Photographer unidentified, Observatoire 2002.R.5-12
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. View of Jantar Mantar observatory, Jaipur.
box 2
Photographer unidentified, Temple Jain Mont Abu 2002.R.5-13
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. Interior of one of the Jain temples on Dilwara.
box 2
Photographer unidentified, Ahmadabad 2002.R.5-14
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. Shows a semi-circular stone window screen with sinuous trees at Sidi Sayyid Mosque, Ahmadabad (1572-1573).
box 2
Photographer unidentified, [Interior with Intricately Carved Stone Screens] 2002.R.5-15
Scope and Contents
Possibly Sidi Sayyid Mosque.
box 2
Photographer unidentified, Tombeau Oudypour 2002.R.5-16
Scope and Contents
Title from mount.
box 2
Photographer unidentified, [Square Tomb with Domed Roof] 2002.R.5-17
box 2
Photographer unidentified, Lat de dhava, Delhi, mosquée de Koutub 2002.R.5-18
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. Iron pillar, 4th century AD, installed at Quwat-ul-Islam mosque, Qutaub quarter, Delhi.
box 2
Photographer unidentified, [Rectangular Pavilion or Tomb with Towers in Each Corner] 2002.R.5-19
box 2
Photographer unidentified, Mousolée d'Itmud Daola, Agra 2002.R.5-20
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. Tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah, Agra, built in 1622.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Anglo-India Beauties 2002.R.5-21
Scope and Contents
Title from mount.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Agra, Marble Screen Enclosing Sarcophagi in the Interior of the Taj 2002.R.5-22
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered in negative: 319.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, [Studio Portrait of Two Indian Girls] 2002.R.5-23
Scope and Contents
Title devised by cataloger. For another copy of this image see Special Collections accession no. 90.R.42-29r.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Agra 2002.R.5-24
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. Akbarabad Fort, Agra.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Benares, the Great Mosque of Aurundzebe & Adjoining Ghats 2002.R.5-25
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered in negative: 432.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Benares, the Nepaulese Temple 2002.R.5-26
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered in negative: 439. For another copy of this image see Special Collections accession no. 90.R.42-10r.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, The Burmese Pagoda in the Eden Gardens 2002.R.5-27
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered in negative: 487. For another copy of this image see Special Collections accession no. 90.R.42-7r.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Ellora 2002.R.5-28
Scope and Contents
Title from mount. Sculpture of elephant, tower, temples.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Darjeeling, General View with the Snows from Woodland's Hotel 2002.R.5-29
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered in negative: 534.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Darjeeling, View from the Calcutta Road Looking towards the Polo Grounds 2002.R.5-30
Scope and Contents
Titled and numbered in negative: 548.
box 3
Photographer unidentified, Aishvara Temple, Katrujay 2002.R.5-31
Scope and Contents
Title on verso.
