Collection: India In Snapshot: Woods, G india-photograph-album-1889-1893-00040-60380
Description
Two photographs on an album page entitled "Camp of Exercise, Beder (60 miles from Secunderaba), Dec 1892." The first is a photograph of men riding elephants captioned "Elephant Battalion retiring, Beder, Dec 1892." The second is a photograph of soldiers on foot, horseback and elephant back captioned "Elephant Battalion (commanded by Major Western RA) on the march, Beder, Dec 1892." From a photograph album of collected photographs in the period Sep 1889-Jul 1894.
Collection
Description
This first collection of images from Lt Colonel George Woods' India album includes photographs of landscapes, hunting, mountain ranges and domestic life from the 1890s.
Collection Terms & Categories
- War/Campaign/Operation: Peacetime
- Country: India
- Theme (Main): Cultures & Customs
- Theme (Main): Daily Life
- Theme (Main): Empire & Commonwealth
- Theme (Main): Natural World
- Subject: Animals & The Natural World
- Subject: Family & Home
- Subject: Logistics
- Subject: Parades, Drills & Manoeuvres
- Subject: Sport & Recreation
- Subject: Transport
- Item: Photographic (album)
- Information: Visual
