Janus: Photographs of India and Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe], 1890s-1930s

RCS contains:
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Y3022F	Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency, London : Lovell Reeve, 1862
Y3022FF	Views in Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] and the Nilgiris
Y3022G-I	Littledale India Collection
Y3022GG	Views in Bombay
Y3022GGGG	Famous monuments of Central India
Y3022HH	Photographs of India and Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe], 1890s-1930s
Y3022HHHH	H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India
Y3022II	Udaipur
Y3022IIII	Copeland Diary 1917-18
Y3022J	Views in India by Lala Deen Diyal
Y3022K	Views of Bharatpur and Deeg [i. e. Dig] 1885
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Photographs of India and Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe], 1890s-1930s

Title	Photographs of India and Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe], 1890s-1930s
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3022HH
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	1890–1939
Extent and Medium	37 images; varying condition.
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

A collection of prints of various sizes. A number of the earlier prints have evidently been removed from the pages of an album. The collection is divided up as follows:

1-19 Views in India (Mussoorie, Muttra and Hurdwar), 1890s-1900s, mainly commercial work but with some amateur snapshots

20-26 Postcards of India, early 1900s

27-37 Snapshots of Southern Rhodesia, 1920s-1930s

Most of the prints have contemporary captions, and many in addition have titles written at a later date by the donor in a hand very difficult to decipher. Several of the photographs relate to the donor's youth. Photographs by S.H. Dagg, Thomas A. Rust and others unknown.

Presented by Miss M. de H. Ward of St Leonards-on-Sea, 1978.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Photographs of India and Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe], 1890s-1930s, Y3022HH

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Indexed

This item level description was entered by NE and MJC using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: South Asia, fiche number 63.

Index Terms

RCS/Y3022HH contains:

The Happy Valley, Mussorie [1890s]. 272 x 216 mm. View looking down onto the race course at Mussoorie, a hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas nine miles north of Dehra. The Happy Valley is situated to the north-west of the town proper; this view looks north-west along the valley from above the road leading back into the town, with the Charleville Hotel on the hillside to the right. Photograph by S.H.
Creator: Dagg, S A.

1890–1899

Dandy, Mussoorie [1890s]. 273 x 213 mm. Showing four Indian bearers posed with a dandy, a wooden chair attached to poles and carried like a sedan chair.
Creator: Dagg, S A.

1890–1899

Family group [1890s]. 87 x 71 mm. Snapshot showing an unidentified couple with their infant child seated on a verandah. Photographer unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading..

1890–1899

[?] Peretan wheel, S' pore [Saharanpur, 1890s]. 107 x 81 mm. Showing a European man seated beside a well in which revolves a waterwheel.
Fair condition..

1890–1899

Surnai, Hurdwar, on the Ganges [1890s]. 98 x 66 mm. River scene, with a European woman seated on 'mussocks' (inflated bullock hides) in the foreground.
Poor condition, overall fading..

1890–1899

Okhla [1890s]. 97 x 61 mm. River scene on the Ganges, with European rowing boat.
Poor condition, overall fading..

1890–1899

Okhla [1890s]. 95 x 72 mm. River scene on the Ganges.
Poor condition, fading and yellowing..

1890–1899

Okhla, crocodile shot by my father [1890s]. 101 x 65 mm. Showing a European man, presumably Miss Ward's father, standing over a dead crocodile on the banks of the Ganges. He is possibly Thomas Robert John Ward, who was appointed an Assistant Engineer in the Indian Public Works Department in 1883 and was in 1900 attached to the Irrigation Department.
Fair condition, some fading and yellowing..

1890–1899

[Rickshaw, Mussoorie, 1890s]. 273 x 215 mm. Studio photograph showing four uniformed bearers posed with a rickshaw.
Creator: Dagg, S A.

1890–1899

Wedding of Capt. Boyce & Miss Williams, Mussoorie, June 1900, taken outside Mussorie School. 285 x 208 mm. Large group photograph of wedding guests with Captain Boyce and his bride seated in the centre. Miss Ward's mother is seated on the carpet at the front of the group.
Creator: Dagg, S A.
Poor condition, image is unfaded and clear, but print is torn in several places and emulsion partially separated from paper support..

June 1900

Sharanpur, the house where I was born, 1893. 282 x 220 mm. General view of a substantial thatched bungalow. The couple standing in the verandah are presumably Miss Ward's parents.
Fair condition, some overall fading..

1893

Chateau Kapurthala Mussoorie, Sept 1899. 297 x 208 mm. Group portrait of European and Indian children standing on the steps of the Chateau Kapurthala, the European style palace of the Maharaja of Kapurthala at Mussoorie (see Y3022HH/24). A photograph presumably taken at some kind of children's entertainment.

Sept. 1899

Christ Church, Muttra in January 1896. 239 x 194 mm. General view of the Anglican Church at Muttra (now Mathura), situated on the Jumna 30 miles north-west of Agra. The church is built in restrained Italianate style with a square campanile. Date of construction unknown.

Jan. 1896

Interior of Muttra Church [1890s]. 237 x 193 mm. View looking along the nave towards the altar.

1890–1899

Our staff [Meerut? 1890s]. 197 x 154 mm. Group portrait of house servants, with Miss Ward's ayah indicated by a cross.
Creator: Clair, J V.
Fair condition, some fading..

1890–1899

Small shoot, Khair Island, near Hurdwar, Jan 1st 1900. Group portrait of two European couples standing with the pile of birds they have shot; with an elephant and mahout in the background. The figures are identified as: Capt. & Mrs Pratt (I.M.S.), Mr & Mrs W-S, the photograph taken by Mr Hall. James John Pratt (b 1860) served in the Indian Medical Service 1883-1912. 'W-S' is possibly William Ward-Smith, Indian Public Works Department from 1872: in 1900 he was attached to the Irrigation Department.

1 Jan. 1900

Glenthorne, Mussoorie [c 1900]. 202 x 160 mm. View of the bungalow 'Glenthorne', with a badminton court in the foreground. Glenthorne was situated to the west of the Happy Valley (see Y3022HH/1).
Fair condition, slight fading and some folds..

1900

Nigapur Dam, Hurdwar, March 1901. 202 x 140 mm. General view of the half-completed dam.

Mar. 1901

Nigapur Canal Bungalow, Hurdwar, March 1901. 202 x 149 mm. General view of the bungalow, a stone building with a row of large segmentally arched windows and French windows along the main façade.

Mar. 1901

View from Church showing Library, Mussoorie. Postcard view by T.A. Rust.
Creator: Rust, T A.

1890–1901

The Mall, Mussoorie. Postcard view (by T.A.Rust).
Creator: Rust, T A.

1890–1901

Entrance to Cemetery, Mussoorie. Postcard view (by T.A. Rust).
Creator: Rust, T A.

1890–1901

Skating rink, interior and exterior, Mussoorie. Postcard view by T.A. Rust.
Creator: Rust, T A.

1890–1901

H.H. The Maharaja Kapurthala's Palace, Mussoorie. Postcard view by T.A. Rust. The building is in the French style modelled after the central portion of the palace at Versailles. It was built by Sir Jagajit Singh (1872-1949), Maharaja of Kapurthala 1890-1942. See Charles Allen, 'Lives of the Indian Princes' (London, 1984).
Creator: Rust, T A.

1890–1901

H.H. Kapurthala's rickshaw and dandy, Mussoorie. Postcard view by T.A. Rust.
Creator: Rust, T A.

1890–1901

Landour. Postcard view by T.A. Rust.
Creator: Rust, T A.

1890–1901

Southern Rhodesia snapshots, 1927 -38. Eleven snapshots, of various sizes, showing social groups in Southern Rhodesia in the period 1927-38. The people featured in these amateur photographs are: Mrs Frankau, Isa, David and Hudson Newett, Colin Duthie, Oscar Langwade, Margaret Sykes, Miss Millar, Mr Birch, Jim Headley and Miss Ward.
11 images.

1927–1938