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Source Description
The 50 images in this album, all taken in the 1860s, move from the hill towns of the Himalayas down to cities including Lahore (now in Pakistan), Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Benares (now Varansi), and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Architectural studies of major monuments offer valuable historical records of what sites such as the Taj Mahal and the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors in Delhi looked like before twentieth-century restorations.
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667175
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Photographs of Northern India
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667175
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Photographs of Northern India
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The 50 images in this album, all taken in the 1860s, move from the hill towns of the Himalayas down to cities including Lahore (now in Pakistan), Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Benares (now Varansi), and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Architectural studies of major monuments offer valuable historical records of what sites such as the Taj Mahal and the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors in Delhi looked like before twentieth-century restorations.
date
1863–70
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q125360112
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265
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Bound Volume
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England
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2024.5
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Album of 50 albumen prints
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Photographs of Northern India, 1863–70. Samuel Bourne (British, 1834–1912). Album of 50 albumen prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2024.5
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PH - British 19th Century
didYouKnow
Samuel Bourne, the author of most the images in this album, was a bank clerk in England before he moved to India to become a professional photographer.
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Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-05-29 09:13:27.115000
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667175
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Photography
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PH - British 19th Century
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Album of 50 albumen prints
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