Janus: Four photographs of India, circa 1912

RCS contains:
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Y3022PPP-YYY	Cochin
Y3022PPPP	Indian metal-work
Y3022Q-R	H.H. Davies collection on India
Y3022QQ	Lahore town planning photographs. 1928
Y3022QQQQ	Indian irrigation works 1915
Y3022RR	Four photographs of India, circa 1912
Y3022RRRR	The Himalayas 1932
Y3022S	Hawkes collection of Indian Railway Photographs
Y3022SSSS	Delhi Durbar 1911
Y3022T	C.J.S. Faulder Vol. III 1876-80 [Faulder Album of India 1876-1880]
Y3022TT	Views of Benares [i.e. Varanasi] from the riverside presented by the Maharaja of Benares
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Four photographs of India, circa 1912

Title	Four photographs of India, circa 1912
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3022RR
Creator	Tench, Mary F A, fl 1910-29
Covering Dates	circa 1912
Extent and Medium	4 images; Good condition.
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

Edward James Beasley was born on 25 November 1964 at La Mesa, California. He attended the University of California, San Diego (B.A., 1985; M.A., 1989; Ph.D., 1993), and worked there as a teaching assistant for the Revelle College Humanities Writing Program, 1986-1990 and 1991-1993, and in the History Department, 1990-1991.

A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 150 x 115 mm, with pencilled captions on the reverse. The views show architectural remains in Bihar and Orissa. Photographs by Miss Mary F.A. Tench.

Presented by Miss Mary F.A. Tench.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Four photographs of India, circa 1912, Y3022RR

Further information

These photographs may have been the result of a world tour since Miss Tench also presented views of Canada and the Caribbean to the Society at around the same period: see Y3062D and Y307F.

Indexed

This collection level description was entered by SG using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: South Asia, fiche number 71.

Index Terms

Asia

India

Tench, Mary F A (fl 1910-1929)

RCS/Y3022RR contains:

Archway, dagaba and lat at Buddh Gaya, Behar [i.e. Bodh Gaya, Bihar], India. 151 x 115 mm.
Good condition..

Dagaba (or receptacles for relics) at Buddh Gaya, Behar [i.e. Bodh Gaya, Bihar]: the place where Siddartha Gaudama became the Buddha or the 'Enlightened One'. 154 x 116 mm.
Good condition..

Chaudragiri, a palace built entirely of stone without the addition of wood. 150 x 111 mm. View showing the ruins of the palace. The caption continues 'in which the Rajah of Vijianagaram (the descendant of him who was defeated by the Mohammedans at Tellacotta [i.e. Talikota]) signed to the English the stretch of land on which Madras now stands'.
Good condition..

Temples and Lake, Bubaneshevar [i.e. Bhubaneswar], Orissa, India. 157 x 113 mm. View looking across the lake towards the temple.
Good condition..