Indian Collection (page 9)

Hindu Shrine at edge of Street in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan (at this stage still in Northern India). Date: circa 1910s

Rio Ampayaco, Peru - Bora Indians in their village. The Bora are an indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon, located between the Putumayo and Napo rivers

WW1 - Four Gurkha Bagpipe Pipers - British Indian Army forces on the Western Front in France. Date: 1915

Trinidad and Tobago - Pitch Lake at La Brea - Loading Pitch - British West Indies.. This particular truck has an M.G.W (Maximum Gross Weight) of 3 tonnes. Date: circa 1910s

The Tombs of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin and Jahanara Begum
Nizamuddin Dargah complex, in Nizamuddin West, Delhi, India. The Tomb of Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya (or Awliya) (12381325) and Jahanara Begum (16141681), daughter of the Emperor Shah Jahan

Buffalo Belles Wild West Show. One man, seven women. Leader in cowboy costume with bicycle and whip. Two in cowgirl costumes holding lassos, five in indian costume holding knives and a spear

Bottlenose dolphins - dancing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Sifting Tea in Assam, India
British Empire multiplied the tea gardens in north-east corner of India due to demand in Britain. Photograph showing one of the many processes of sifting the tea prior to packing. Date: late 1890s

HMS Encounter, 2nd class protected cruiser, Challenger class
Royal Navy - HMS Encounter, a 2nd-class protected cruiser of the Challenger class, operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), as HMAS Encounter

Discovery of the body of Tipu Sultan, Siege of Seringapatam, India, 4 May 1799, ending the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-1799) between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore

Sea fight with the Mahrattas (Maratha sailors), who captured the East India Company ship Ranger on 5 (or 8) April 1783, an action which went against the Treaty of Salbai which had ended the First

Comic postcard, Two women in bikinis at the seaside - hot stuff Date: 20th century

Blowing up the Kashmir Gate at Delhi, Indian Mutiny Date: 1857

HMS Glorious, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Glorious, aircraft carrier, at anchor, steaming up. HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

19th century vintage photograph India - village life in Bengal, Samuel Bourne, 1860s

19th century vintage photograph India - Jain temples Halebidu

Chowringhee (also spelt Chourangi) Kolkata India
Vintage 19th century photograph: Chowringhee (also spelt Chourangi) is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal

India - bullock cart
19th century vintage photograph India - bullock cart

India - Raja of Mahmudabad
19th century vintage photograph India - Raja of Mahmudabad

c. 1880s India - fakir or holyman, beggar
c. 1880s India - image from an album of Indian types and trades designed to illustrate India to a British viewer - fakir or holy man

Colonial India, British gents ride on an elephant. Date: circa 1900s

Oil Refinery at Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean island
circa 1910s

Prickly pear or Indian fig opuntia, Opuntia ficus-indica (Opuntia vulgaris). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse

Indian princess having her hair done, 18th century. A princess smokes a hookah pipe while maids fix her hair, hold a mirror and play music. In a courtyard with pond, fountains and garden

Native Americans Indians, Osage and Iroquois Chiefs
Native American Indians, Osage and Iroquois Chiefs. 1876

Hill Fort of Gingee or Senji, Tamil Nadu, India. 1835

Inuit or Eskimo bride on her wedding day. 1908

Interior of Ramanathaswamy Temple, Rameswaram Island, India
Interior (The Great Corridor) of Ramanathaswamy Temple, Rameswaram Island, Tamil Nadu, India, a Hindu temple in Dravidian style dedicated to the god Shiva. Date: circa early 1930s

Chandalas, lower-caste Hindus, India
Chandalas, lower-caste Hindus in India, deemed to be untouchable because they dispose of dead bodies. Date: 1843

Blue nasturtium or Indian cress, Tropaeolum azureum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden

Mustard greens or kai choi, Brassica juncea. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany

Three-coloured Indian cress, Tropaeolum tricolor (jaratti). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Indian transport: sedan chair or palanquins. Long palanquin, miyana, jhalidar palki, and copala palki. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Various types of clothes worn by Indian men. Man of distinction with prayer beads, and men in dhoti. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Asian bleeding heart, Lamprocapnos spectabilis (Delitrya spectabilis). Chromolithograph after a botanical drawing by Emily Eden from her Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope

Bengal Florida rose, Rosa chinensis (Rosa bengalensis). Chromolithograph after a botanical drawing by Emily Eden from her Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope, Breidenbach Co

Pride of India giant or crepe-myrtle, Lagerstroemia speciosa. Chromolithograph after a botanical drawing by Emily Eden from her Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope, Breidenbach Co

Indian hemp, marijuana, hashish or ganja, Cannabis sativa. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Polygars of Tinnevelly (Tirunelveli), Southern India
Polygars (Palaiyakkarars, military chiefs) of Tinnevelly (Tirunelveli), Tamil Nadu (Madras State), Southern India. Date: 1842

Story of the Bengal Partition and its reversal
Page from The Graphic showing two maps of North East India. The top map shows Bengal partitioned in 1905, when a large part of its former area in the east was united with Assam to form the new

Napier Barracks, Karachi, British India
Napier Barracks, Karachi, Sindh Province, British India (now in Pakistan). Date: circa 1908

Telegraph from Maharaja Bikaner to Major Crawford
Telegraph sent from Maharaja Bikaner to Major Crawford of the British 125th Rifles, stationed at Ahmednagar in the state of Maharashtra, India

4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment at Neuve Chapelle, WW1
Original oil sketch of the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment at Neuve Chapelle - part of Jullundur Brigade, Lahore Division, Indian Corps, attacking the Bois de Biez, 12th March 1915

Khyber Pass - Dead Afghan Frontier Raider
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Dominica, Caribbean - laundry in the river
Dominica, Caribbean - women doing their laundry at the edge of a river. circa 1907

ELEPHANT CARRYING LOG
This Indian elephant is a resident in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris but helps to carry logs when the trees are cut down and apparently makes himself generally useful. Date: 1930s

Harris Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Date: circa 1910s

Indian 1914 Hendee Special motorcycle with sidecar, powered by a 988 cc V-twin. Owned by a very happy couple! Date: circa 1915

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