Poona Plague Pictures

Series I Poona plague pictures, 1887-1908, undated

Poona Plague Pictures, 1897-1908, undated (digitized version)

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Arrangement

In original order.

box 1

Album, 1897-1898

box 1, Item Front cover

96.R.95-fc Front cover, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page Front paste down

96.R.95-fpe Front paste-down endpaper, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page Flyleaf

96.R.95-f Flyleaf

Scope and Content Note

The title, Poona Plague Pictures, is hand- drawn and-colored in a devised font composed of bones and skulls.

box 1, page Verso of flyleaf

96.R.95-fev Verso of flyleaf, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 1 recto

96.R.95-1r Stewart, F. B., The Medical Staff of the General Plague Hospital, Poona..., 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy caption written across the bottom of page describes the racial composition and numbers of each type of professional staff professional staff, their uniforms, and their wages and housing. The photograph was published in The Graphic 5 March 1898 with the caption: Staff of Doctors, Nurses, and Hospital Assistants at the General Plague Hospital, Poona.

box 1, page 1 verso

96.R.95-1v Stewart, F. B., Staff of General Plague Hospital, Poona [left side], 1898

Scope and Content Note

Forms a panorama with page 2 recto. Title in negative. While this is a large group portrait of the entire hospital staff, only the professional staff, a row of seated doctors and nurses, are identified in the negative above the title. A lengthy caption written across the bottom of both pages describes the composition and numbers of the entire staff.

box 1, page 2 recto

96.R.95-2r Stewart, F. B., Staff of General Plague Hospital, Poona [right side],

Scope and Content Note

Forms a panorama with page 1 verso.

box 1, page 2 verso

96.R.95-2v This is Part of the Hospital Enclosure..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Lengthy handwritten caption describing the compound continues across bottom of page.

box 1, page 3 recto

96.R.95-3r View of Part of Genl. Plague Hospital, Poona, 1898

Scope and Content Note

Title in negative; date appears as 1893, but is most likely a typographer's mistake as the plague did not come to India or Pune until 1896. A lengthy handwritten caption describing the hospital runs across the bottom of the page.

box 1, page 3 verso

96.R.95-3v The Bunga's Shope Mentioned in the First of These Views..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

A lengthy handwritten caption continues across the bottom of the page.

box 1, page 4 recto

96.R.95-4r View of Tents for "Observation" Cases, Genl. Plague Hospital, Poona, 1898

Scope and Content Note

A lengthy handwritten caption runs across the bottom of the page.

box 1, page 4 verso

96.R.95-4v.1 This Was My Babies Ward..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 4 verso-2

96.R.95-4v.2 This Is the Children's Ward..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 5 recto-1

96.R.95-5r.1 Exterior of the Male Portuguese and Native Christian Ward..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 5 recto-2

96.R.95-5r.2 Interior of the Same Ward..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 5 verso-1

96.R.95-5v.1 This is the Latest Addition to the Hospital and its Bacteriological Laboratory..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

A lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 5 verso-2

96.R.95-5v.2 A View Inside the Hospital Enclosure..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 6 recto-1

96.R.95-6r.1 A Bee's Nest..., 1898

Scope and Content Note

Title from lengthy caption written below the image.

box 1, page 6 recto-2

96.R.95-6r.2 Our Convalescent Children Breakfasting..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Title from lengthy caption written below the image.

box 1, page 6 recto-3

96.R.95-6r.3 Another View of the Observation Tents..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Title from lengthy caption written below the image.

box 1, page 6 verso-1

96.R.95-6v.1 Male Convalescent Tents and the Back of a Ward with One Arak [?], 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 6 verso-2

96.R.95-6v.2 Sepoys Guarding the Entrance Drive to the Hospital, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 6 verso-3

96.R.95-6v.3 Entrance to the Hospital, Showing the Gharry Shed on the Left, 1897 or 1898

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96.R.95-6v.4 Looking Down One of the Hospital Paths - Wards are Seen on Each Side, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 7 recto-1

96.R.95-7r.1 Interior of a Female Ward, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Caption continues: A hospital assistant is taking a pulse on the left.

box 1, page 7 recto-2

96.R.95-7r.2 Dr. Marsh Visiting One of My Women's Wards, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Caption continues: Mr Bapuji is with him & Miss Leslie.

box 1, page 7 verso-1

96.R.95-7v.1 Male Convalescent Tents at the General Plague Hospital..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 7 verso-2

96.R.95-7v.2 House Disinfection, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 7 verso-3

96.R.95-7v.3 Native Cooks Cooking for Soldiers, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 8 recto-1

96.R.95-8r.1 Entrance to the Segregation Camp, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption explains that residents of infected districts were housed here while their districts were disinfected.

box 1, page 8 recto-2

96.R.95-8r.2 Disinfecting Clothes at the Segregation Camp by Steam, the Engine is on the Right, 1897

box 1, page 8 verso-1

96.R.95-8v.1 Another View of the Segregation Camp, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 8 verso-2

96.R.95-8v.2 Poona Segregation Camp, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 9 recto-1

96.R.95-9r.1 Poona Observation Camp, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 9 recto-2

96.R.95-9r.2 Disinfecting Engine at Work under Surgeon Major Street at the Observation Camp, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 9 verso-1

96.R.95-9v.1 A Plague Patient Being Removed from the Compound Where He Was Found to the General Plague Hospital, 1897

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 9 verso-2

96.R.95-9v.2 [Officers of the Durham Light Infantry with Their Ailing Cook], probably 1897

Scope and Content Note

A lengthy caption is handwritten below the image.

box 1, page 9 verso-3

96.R.95-9v.3 Stewart, F. B., Two Bodies on the Funeral Pyre in the Cremation Ground for Hindus on the Poona River, 1897

Scope and Content Note

Title from The Sketch, p. 221, Sept. 1, 1897. The lengthy handwritten caption below the image begins: The high caste Hindoos bury their dead on a pyre of 1,000 cakes of dried bovine manure...

box 1, page 9 verso-3

96.R.95-9v.4 This Is the Same Pyre as in the Previous Photograph..., 1897

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 10 recto-1

96.R.95-10r.1 The Hospital Burial Ground..., 1897

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 10 recto-2

96.R.95-10r.2 The First Case amongst the Sidees (Africans in India)..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 10 recto-3

96.R.95-10r.3 Lakdipur [?] Burial Ground near Poona, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 10 recto-4

96.R.95-10r.4 Human Bones - Chiefly Skulls and Femurs, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 10 verso

96.R.95-10v Some of My Plague Cases in the General Plague Hospital

Scope and Content Note

Caption written across top of page.

box 1, page 10 verso-1

96.R.95-10v.1 A Convalescent after Enlargment of Both Parotido - This Usually Terminates Fatally, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 10 verso-2

96.R.95-10v.2 A "Famine Child" with Plague, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 10 verso-3

96.R.95-10v.3 These are Bombay Convalescents, Not Poona Ones, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 10 verso-4

96.R.95-10v.4 A Bubo Had Formed in the Right Lumbar Region..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 11 recto-1

96.R.95-11r.1 An Eye Case..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 11 recto-2

96.R.95-11r.2 Bubo of Right Side of Neck..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 11 recto-3

96.R.95-11r.3 Professor Koch of Berlin (the Consumption Specialist), 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 11 recto-4

96.R.95-11r.4 Bubo in Right Armpit, Right Arm Swollen, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 11 verso-1

96.R.95-11v.1 Typical Plague Expression..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 11 verso-2

96.R.95-11v.2 Ulcer of Left Femoral Region Resulting from Bubo, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 11 verso-3

96.R.95-11v.3 Patient with Enlargment of Left Submaxillary Glands, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 11 verso-4

96.R.95-11v.4 Deep Ulcer in Scarpa's Triangle..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 12 recto-1

96.R.95-12r.1 Sinus in Left Inguinal Region..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 12 recto-2

96.R.95-12r.2 Famine Child..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 12 recto-3

96.R.95-12r.3 Another View of the Same Case as the Photograph Above [Inguinal Region Abcess], 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 12 recto-4

96.R.95-12r.4 Enlarged Parotids - the Eyes Were Also Affected - Photophobia, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 12 verso-1

96.R.95-12v.1 Ulcer from Bubo in Riptor Axilla in Famine Child - Recovery, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 12 verso-2

96.R.95-12v.2 Buboes in Both Joints, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 12 verso-3

96.R.95-12v.3 Large Abcess Pointing in Right Auxilla..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 12 verso-4

96.R.95-12v.4 Convalescent out in the Sunshine. "Babur Kush," 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 13 recto-1

96.R.95-13r.1 Bubo of Right Parotid..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 13 recto-2

96.R.95-13r.2 Convalescence, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 13 recto-3

96.R.95-13r.3 At the Point of Death, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 13 recto-4

96.R.95-13r.4 Stewart, F. B., A Dark Patient in English Hands, 1897

Scope and Content Note

Title from The Sketch, Sept. 1, 1897, p. 220. Caption below image: The crisis.

box 1, page 13 verso-1

96.R.85-13v.1 Circumscribed Abcess Pointing in Left Femoral Region..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Lengthy caption continues below image.

box 1, page 13 verso-2

96.R.95-13v.2 Stewart, F. B., A Plague Expression: Paralysed, 1897

Scope and Content Note

Title from The Sketch, Sept. 1, 1897, p. 220. Caption below image: Burhiya - convalescent and quite happy.

box 1, page 13 verso-3

96.R.95-13v.3 Renā - Convalescent, 1897

box 1, page 13 verso-4

96.R.95-13v.4 A Famine Woman - Notice the Sunken Abdomen, 1897

box 1, page 14 recto-1

96.R.95-14r.1 Bubo in Right Auxilla, 1897

box 1, page 14 recto-2

96.R.95-14r.2 Poultise Applied to Bubo in Neck, 1897

box 1, page 14 recto-3

96.R.95-14r.3 Bubo in Neck - Plague Expression, 1897

box 1, page 14 recto-4

96.R.95-14r.4 Stewart, F. B., A Plague Expression, 1897

Scope and Content Note

Title from The Sketch, Sept. 1, 1897, p. 220. Caption below image: Left paratid gland enlarged.

box 1, page 14 verso-1

96.R.95-14v.1 Right Femoral Glands Enlarged, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 14 verso-2

96.R.95-14v.2 Right Subauxillary Glands Enlarged - Painful, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 14 verso-3

96.R.95-14v.3 Convalescent, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 14 verso-4

96.R.95-14v.4 Pneumonia Plague - Breathing Difficult, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 15 recto-1

96.R.95-15r.1 "Ward Coolies" or "Ward Boys," 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 15 recto-2

96.R.95-15r.2 Ulcer Resulting from Bubo and Application of "Marking Nut," 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 15 recto-3

96.R.95-15r.3 En Route to Experiment Shed in 1897 Epidemic of Plague, 1897

box 1, page 15 recto-4

96.R.95-15r.4 Ice Bag on Head..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 15 recto-5

96.R.95-15r.5 Eye Case, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 15 verso-1

96.R.95-15v.1 Sisters Who Nursed the Patients during the 1897 Epidemic, 1897

box 1, page 15 verso-2

96.R.95-15v.2 A Deserted Village - Not a House Inhabited, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 15 verso-3

96.R.95-15v.3 Observation Camp Scene, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 15 verso-4

96.R.95-15v.4 Plague Marks, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The lengthy handwritten caption explains the system of marking residences searched for plague cases.

box 1, page 16 recto-1

96.R.95-16r.1 Segregation Camp, Wanowrie, Poona, 1897 or 1898

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96.R.95-16r.2 Segregation Camp, 1897 or 1898

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96.R.95-16r.3 Segregation Camp, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 16 recto-4

96.R.95-16r.4 Fruit Distribution - Group at Plague Hospital, 1897

box 1, page 16 verso-1

96.R.95-16v.1 Mohammedan Segregation Camp, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 16 verso-2

96.R.95-16v.2 Babie's Ward, G. P. Hosp[ital]..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 16 verso-3

96.R.95-16v.3 Railway Observation Camp, Poona, Where Passengers Having Fever Are Removed To, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 16 verso-4

96.R.95-16v.4 In Maharatta Ward, G. P., Hosp[ital]..., 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 17 recto-1

96.R.95-17r.1 Medical Inspection, Poona Railway Station, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 17 recto-2

96.R.95-17r.2 Railway Inspection 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

The handwritten caption continues below the image.

box 1, page 17 recto-3

96.R.95-17r.3 Railway Inspection - Great Indian Peninsualr Ry., 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 17 verso

96.R.95-17v Stewart, F. B. [?], Native Gentlemen (?) Volunteers for House to House Inspection Work, 1897

Scope and Content Note

Albumen print.

box 1, page 18 recto

96.R.95-18r Stewart, F. B. [?], Disinfecting Houses, 1897

Scope and Content Note

Albumen print.

box 1, page 18 verso

96.R.95-18v Stewart, F. B. [?], White Washing, 1897

Scope and Content Note

Albumen print.

box 1, page 19 recto

96.R.95-19r Stewart, F. B. [?], Hindu Burning Ground, 1897

box 1, page 19 verso-1

96.R.95-19v.1 Search Parties, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 19 verso-2

96.R.95-19v.2 Justices Officer Peace Who Inspect Houses, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Caption continues: Notice the Parsee hats.

box 1, page 20 recto-1

96.R.95-20r.1 Removal of a Plague Patient in a Bullock Gharry, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 20 recto-2

96.R.95-20r.2 Stewart, F. B. [?], Giving Orders Which Streets are to be Searched House by House, 1897

box 1, page 20 verso-1

96.R.95-20v.1 White Washing Party, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 20 verso-2

96.R.95-20v.2 Warning the Relatives Not To Resist the Patient's Removal to Hospital, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 20 verso-3

96.R.95-20v.3 Medical Examination by Hospital Assistant, 1897 or 1898

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96.R.95-20v.4 Awaiting Medical Inspection, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 recto-1

96.R.95-21r.1 Mother & Child, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 recto-2

96.R.95-21r.2 19th Bombay Infantry on Plague Duty, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 recto-3

96.R.95-21r.3 Awaiting Medical Inspection, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 recto-4

96.R.95-21r.4 Orderlies Warded [?] for Duty, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 verso-1

96.R.95-21v.1 Jamisctji Hospital, Bombay, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 verso-2

96.R.95-21v.2 Disinfected Houses, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 verso-3

96.R.95-21v.3 Police Hospital, Bombay, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 verso-4

96.R.95-21v.4 Plague Ambulance, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 21 verso-5

96.R.95-21v.5 Four Wheeler Used as Ambulance, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 recto-1

96.R.95-22r.1 Female Inspection, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 recto-2

96.R.95-22r.2 Muslim Mosque Search Party, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 recto-3

96.R.95-22r.3 Plague Case Medicine Time, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 recto-4

96.R.95-22r.4 Awaiting the Doctor's Arrival, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 recto-5

96.R.95-22r.5 Women Awaiting the Doctor's Arrival, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 verso-1

96.R.95-22v.1 Railway Inspection, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 verso-2

96.R.95-22v.2 Reti Bungalow & Camel, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 verso-3

96.R.95-22v.3 Harbour Inspection Bombay, Waiting to Have Their Pulses Felt, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 verso-4

96.R.95-22v.4 Interior of Bombay Plague Hospital, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 verso-5

96.R.95-22v.5 Grave Diggers Scene, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 verso-6

96.R.95-22v.6 Reti Bungalow & Camel, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 22 verso-7

96.R.95-22v.7 Women's Breakfast, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 23 recto-1

96.R.95-23r.1 Grant Road Hospital, Bombay, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 23 recto-2

96.R.95-23r.2 Reti - Returning from a Shoot, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 23 recto-3

96.R.95-23r.3 Temporary Village Built by Natives outside Bombay, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 23 recto-4

96.R.95-23r.4 Removing Plague Case from House, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 23 recto-5

96.R.95-23r.5 Medical Inspection "Hatu Batao," 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 23 recto-6

96.R.95-23r.6 Dismounting, 1897 or 1898

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96.R.95-23r.7 Warning against Resistence, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 23 verso-1

96.R.95-23v.1 Valentine Lodge, Poona. The Nurses's Bungalow and Dr. Jones' Trap, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 23 verso-2

96.R.95-23v.2 The Dining Room, in the Second Chair on the Left I Sat to Eat My Christmas Dinner, 1897

Scope and Content Note

Caption continues: There were there 15 nurses. I was the only man.

box 1, page 24 verso-1

96.R.95-24r.1 The Drawing Room, Valentine Lodge (Nurse's Quarters), 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 24 recto-2

96.R.95-24r.2 Bird's Eye View of the Poona Plague Hospital, Left by Me Jan. 15th, 1898!, 1898

box 1, page 24 verso-1

96.R.95-24v.1 Sukkur, Upper Sind[h], 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 24 verso-2

96.R.95-24v.2 Medical Examination at Reti, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 24 verso-3

96.R.95-24v.3 Indus at Sukkur, Landsdowne Cantilever Bridge, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 24 verso-4

96.R.95-24v.4 Native Boats on Indus at Sukkur, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 25 recto-1

96.R.95-25r.1 Inhabitants of the Chummery at Sukkur, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Identified are Mssrs. Davies, Adams, Strong, and Marston.

box 1, page 25 recto-2

96.R.95-25r.2 Miani near Adawshah at Sukkur, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page 25 recto-3

96.R.95-25r.3 Priests & Fakirs in Sadhbelah Island in Indus, 1897 or 1898

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96.R.95-25r.4 Gymkhana Group at Sukkur, 1897 or 1898

Scope and Content Note

Identifed are: Allen, Mrs. Corkery, Mrs. Marriot. Dr. Corkery, Spalding, and Mrs. Allen. The group also includes children.

box 1, page 25 recto

96.R.95-25v Blank page

box 1, page Back free endpaper

96.R.95-bfev Back free endpaper, 1897 or 1898

box 1, page Back paste-down endpaper

96.R.95-bpe Back paste-down endpaper 1897 or 1898

box 1, Item Back cover

96.R.95-bc Back cover, 1897 or 1898

box 1, folder 1

Loose items, 1899-1908, undated

Scope and Content Note

The items listed below were found inserted in the album.

96.R.95-s1 Letter from Alexander Sclanders, 1899 2 March

Scope and Content Note

The six-page letter (covering two sheets) from Sclanders to his niece Lilian Wylie is primarily concerned with the setting of her wedding date to Dr. Adams (later Lt. Charles Henry Benjamin Adams-Wylie, IMS), and with asking the couple to reconsider their return to plague-ridden India. Sclanders suggests that Adams could easily set up a practice in a desirable location in England and asks that both Lily and Adams discuss their plans with him.

96.R.95-s2 [Two Couples in Fancy-Dress], approximately 1899

Scope and Content Note

Written on verso: Adams.

96.R.95-s3 [Indian Temple?], undated

96.R.95-s4 Dr. Sanzgiri and Staff, 1908

Scope and Content Note

Totle from letterpress caption on mount below image. Caption above image: The Adams-Wylie Memorial Hospital, / Bombay. Handwritten dedication on verso: With kindest / regards / V. S. Sanzguri / Grigaus [?] B. K. Rd / Bombay, India.

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