Finding Aid for Poona Plague Pictures, 1897-1908, undated
Beth Ann Guynn
Descriptive Summary
Title: Poona Plague Pictures
Date (inclusive): 1897-1908,
undated
Number: 96.R.95
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
(147 photographs and 4 loose items)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
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Los Angeles 90049-1688
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
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Abstract: The album, most likely compiled by Dr.
C. H. B. Adams-Wylie, the plague medical officer at the General Plague Hospital in Poona
(Pune), India, from 1897-1898, records the work of that hospital in great detail. The
photographs portray the daily work of the hospital and include portraits of hospital staff,
views of the hospital wards and grounds, and detailed close-up studies of plague patients.
Photographs taken outside the hospital compound document the measures instituted by Pune's
Special Plague Committee and enforced by the British and native soldiers, such as forced
house inspections and the holding of residents within observation and segregation
camps.
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Biographical/Historical Note
Bubonic plague, as part of the widespread third plague pandemic, reached the Indian
subcontinent from China, where it had first appeared in 1855, around 1896. Appearing first
in coastal cities, it spread to the inland city of Poona (Pune) in the state of Maharashtra
late in 1896, and by February 1897, with a raging mortality rate double the usual epidemic
norm, half the city's residents had fled to outlying areas. In order to bring the plague
under control W. C. Rand, an Indian Civil Service officer and head of Pune's newly-formed
Special Plague Committee, instituted what were seen by the native population as excessively
strict safety measures. These included the use of British and native troops to enforce entry
into private dwellings for the examination of occupants and the discovery of afflicted or
deceased persons; removal of residents to hospitals or observation and segregation camps;
the destruction of possibly contaminated personal possessions; preventing plague victims
from entering or exiting the city; restriction of the burial of plague victims to designated
rather than traditional burial grounds; and the banning of traditional Indian medical
practices. Although the extreme measures quickly brought the epidemic under control,
response to their severity fomented rebellion in an already politically charged district.
Despite the fact that the measures were lifted a few months later on May 19, resentment was
such that on June 22 Rand and his military escort, Lt. Ayerst, were assassinated by the
Chapekar brothers on their way home from the celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
at Pune's Government House. Such events, along with the spread of plague to rural areas,
caused the British government to switch tactics and focus instead on mass inoculation using
the plague vaccine developed by Waldimar Haffkine, a Russian Jewish bacteriologist.
Charles Henry Benjamin (C.H.B.) Adams-Wylie was one of the junior British doctors who
served at the General Plague Hospital in Pune in 1897 and 1898, where he was a plague
medical officer known then as Dr. Adams. He was born in 1871 or 1872 and did his medical
training at Edinburgh University and Middlesex Hospital. In 1899 he married Lilian Oimara
Wylie, a trained nurse, and changed his name to Adams-Wylie by deed of poll. Shortly
thereafter Adams-Wylie was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service as a lieutenant and
the couple went to Bombay, where they worked tirelessly vaccinating victims against plague,
paying for additional plague vaccination incentives and food for the poor with their own
funds. In 1900, after the advent of the Second Boer War, Lt. Adams-Wylie served as a medical
officer to troops transferring to South Africa. He subsequently volunteered as a sanitary
worker at Bloemfontein while Lilian, known to her family as Lily or Julia, went to Capetown
as a nurse. Lt. Adams-Wylie died at Bloemfontein from enteric fever that same year. After
his death Lilian Adams-Wylie continued in her nursing career. In 1902 she founded the
Adams-Wylie Memorial in Bombay for the poor in honor of her late husband. In 1904, she
married Charles Hotham Montague Doughty, an army officer and diplomat and the nephew of the
travel writer Charles Doughty, who also appended Wylie to his name. Doughty-Wylie fell at
Gallipoli in 1915; his wife died in Cyprus in 1961 after a long and distinguished medical
career.
F. B. (Francis Benjamin) Stewart was a British photographer and filmmaker who was based in
Pune beginning in the 1880s. He worked for the British military and government as well as
for private businesses such as the Warwick Trading Company. He died in Pune in 1919.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
Poona plague pictures, 1897-1908, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no.
96.R.95.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r95
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1996.
Processing History
Cataloged in 1996 by Ruth Lachman. In 2014 Beth Ann Guynn substantially updated the
cataloging and wrote the finding aid.
Digitized Material
The collection was digitized by the repository and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/96r95
Scope and Content of Collection
The album was most likely compiled by Dr. Charles Henry Benjamin Adams (later Adams-Wylie),
who served as the plague medical officer at the General Plague Hospital in Poona (Pune),
India, from some time in 1897 until his departure on January 15, 1898, as jubilantly noted
in the caption for a general view of the hospital.
The album records the work of the General Plague Hospital in great detail. The photographs
document the daily work of the hospital and include portraits of hospital staff, views of
the hospital wards and grounds, and detailed close-up studies of plague patients.
Photographs taken outside the hospital compound document the measures instituted by Pune's
Special Plague Committee and enforced by the British and native soldiers, such as the
white-washing of homes; views of the segregation camps where residents were sent while their
districts were disinfected; and views of the observation camps that held households with
family members known to have the plague; as well images of burial grounds and Hindu funeral
pyres.
Also included in the album are plague-related photographs taken in Bombay, including a view
of the Jamisetji Hospital, and other photographs taken in Sukkur and Reti that appear to be
of a more personal nature. Adams-Wylie appears in the General Plague Hospital staff group
portraits in the album's opening pages as well as in the snapshot captioned "The
Chummery."
Several of the 148 photographs (including the two-part group portrait panorama) in the
album are by or can be attributed to Pune-based British photographer F. B. Stewart,
including a number that were reproduced in the illustrated weekly news journals
The Sketch and
The Graphic. Other
photographs of a more amateur nature were likely taken by Adams-Wylie or his close
associates.
Titles for the photographs are taken from the handwritten captions, unless otherwise noted.
Consequently, some titles may include language now considered to be racist or biased. All
photographs are gelatin silver prints except for a handful noted as being albumen
prints.
Inserted loose in the album are four additional items, at least three of which can be tied
to C. H. B. Adams-Wylie and his wife Lilian. These include a letter from Lilian's uncle,
Alexander Sclanders, primarily concerned with the setting of her wedding date to Dr. Adams
and asking the couple to reconsider going to plague-ridden India when, as he suggests, Adams
could easily set up a practice in a desirable location in England. He asks that both Lily
and Adams discuss their plans with him. Also present are a small snapshot of two young
couples in fancy-dress marked "Adams" on the verso and a group portrait of the staff of
Adams-Wylie Hospital taken in 1908. A photograph of an Indian temple complex is the fourth
item found loose in the album.
The album is half-bound in green and black morocco leather with "Photographs" embossed in
gilt on the front cover. The front flyleaf bears the title
Poona
Plague Pictures
written in a devised font composed of bones and skulls.
Arrangement
Arranged in a singles series:
Series I: Poona plague pictures,
1897-1908, undated.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Sclanders, Alexander
Stewart, F.B. (Francis Benjamin)
Adams-Wylie, Lilian Oimara
Subjects - Topics
Diseases -- Complications -- India
Epidemics -- India
Plague -- India
Subjects - Places
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration
Great Britain -- Colonies -- India
Genres and Forms of Material
Gelatin silver prints -- India -- 20th century
Pune (India) -- Social conditions
Photographs, Original
Panoramas -- India -- 19th century
Gelatin silver prints -- India -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- India -- 19th century
Group portraits -- India -- 19th century
Photograph albums -- India -- 19th century
Series I
Poona plague pictures,
1887-1908,
undated
Poona Plague Pictures, 1897-1908, undated (digitized version)
Arrangement
In original order.
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
box 1, page 6 verso-4
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
box 1, page 16 recto-2
96.R.95-16r.2
Segregation Camp,
1897 or
1898
box 1, page 16 recto-3
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
box 1, page 20 verso-4
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
box 1, page 23 recto-7
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
box 1, page 25 recto-4
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 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.
