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Elephants

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

H.E. the Viceroy's Elephants, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1138
Scope and Contents

Photograph of five state elephants belonging to 'His Excellency the Viceroy' in India in the late 19th or early 20th century. Standing in a courtyard with their keeper, the elephants are richly covered and have howdah's on their backs.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Securing Captured Elephants, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3418
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Indian men securing captured elephants by tying one of their legs to a tree with a rope in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Shipping an Elephant, Rangoon, [Burma], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3415
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an elephant being lifted with ropes and pulleys onto a ship in Rangoon, [Burma] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Begum and Wee Macgregor - Bengal State Elephant with "Son", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1456
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Bengal state elephant, "The Begum" with son, "Wee Macgregor" next to a barn in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Raja of Talcher's Elephant, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1457
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Raja of Talcher riding on his elephant in a field. Talcher part of the tributary state of Orissa where 'the Raja is a keen sportsman.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Watering Elephants, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3422
Scope and Contents

Photograph of men riding elephants as they stand in a lake or river being watered in [India?] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

We Two, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1452
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two unidentified people, Westerners, riding on an elephant with an Indian man in an village in India in the early 20th century with a crowd of Indian men and boys standing in the background.

Dates: 1870s-1930s