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India

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 243 Collections and/or Records:

Cross-Bred Gaolao and Mandla Cattle, Favourite Working Cattle in Balaghat, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2644
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a team of cross-bred Gaolao and Mandla cattle harnessed to a gig standing underneath a tree in India in the early 20th century. The text beneath the image notes that these are the 'favourite working cattle in Balaghat'.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Darjeeling Arts Club: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1945

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/B/27
Scope and Contents

Administrative papers and correspondence concerning the Darjeeling Group of Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO). Includes 5 black and white photographic prints (8.5cm x 11cm) of Percy Johnson-Marshall visiting an art class.

Dates: 1943-1945

Deccani Buffalo Bull and Cow, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2828
Scope and Contents

Photographs of a Deccani buffalo bull and cow standing in paddocks in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Delhi and Meerut Groups: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1945

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/B/24
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Percy Johnson-Marshall, in his role as Secretary General, concerning the Delhi and Meerut Groups of the Service Arts and Technical Organization .

Dates: 1943-1945

Deodars, Simla [India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/291
Scope and Contents

Photograph of deodars, tall cedar trees, in Simla, northern India in the late 19th or early 20th century. Also written on the slide is the note, 'Under the Deodars' which is a book of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Dheli Buffalo Cow, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2824
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Dheli buffalo cow standing in a paddock in front of a farm building with an Indian man standing next to its head in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Dimensions of East India Cattle, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2095
Scope and Contents

Table of the physical dimensions of East India cattle listing the height and length of their bodies and other points of their features.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Documents relating to Lt. Col. William Duncan

 Fonds — Box Dk.2.20
Identifier: Coll-2928
Scope and Contents This fonds consists of documents relating to Lt. Col. William Duncan, dating from 1777-1797. Receipt for fees on his commission as captain. 26 May 1777. Receipt for fees on his commission as major of Infantry. 16 January 1781. Receipt for fees on his commission as Lieutenant Colonel. 13 September 1793. Extract minutes of Council in the Military...
Dates: 1777-1797

Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn

 Fonds — Box Coll-1619, Box: Coll-1619 / E2015.23
Identifier: Coll-1619
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed of lithographs, engravings, and woodcuts, notes and news-clippings, drawings, sketches, tracings and water-colours, and photographs of drawings. These feature trees, flowers and leaves, figures, animals and places in the Himalayas and across India... Indian life, forests and gardens.

Dates: 17th-19th century

Drawings of a Collection of East Indian Plants

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-478
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of drawings from Roxburgh's collection of East Indian plants. These were sent by Nathaniel Wallis (or Wallich) to Robert Wight for the Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis 1840-1853.

Dates: 19th century