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The Upper Himmalayahs. View on the New Road between India and China. Mt. Pangi with the Snowy Peaks of China in the Distance

Samuel BourneLinkedCulture matchlcp-61b4f93d8f95

Date: 1863 or 1866
Medium: albumen print
Culture: England
Department: Photography
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 668066

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 20th-century restorations. Samuel Bourne, the author of most the images in this album, was a banker in England before he moved to India to become a professional photographer.

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Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

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