Photography - Travel - India - Shillong Earthquake 1897- Col...

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£260

Photography - Travel - India - Shillong Earthquake 1897- Colonial Society - an interesting 19th century photograph album, compiled by The Rev Herbert Taylor Ottley (1859 - 1944) during his time as a Government Chaplain, Canon of Calcutta, officiating Archdeacon of Calcutta and Domestic Chaplain to the Metropolitan of India (c.1888 - 1909), many annotated, Ruins of the Dak Bungalows 1897; Dak Bungalows, Shillong re-built after the Earthquake; Shillong Church; Temporary Church at Shillong; Crinoline Falls, Shillong; Khasi Folk Selling Vegetables; Garden Party, Government House, Shillong; Somerset-Howell Wedding, Nov.01; Darjeeling, High Street Gulmarg; The Golf Links, Gulmarg; Temple, Dhal Canal; ** Festival, Outside the Temple, many more, some of his return journey, Port Said, etc

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twenty-three loose photographs of which approx twelve are of SShillong, another forty or so of snapshot type