Collection: India In Snapshot: Woods, G india-photograph-album-1889-1893-00045-60385
Description
Two photographs on an album page. The first is of a fort and captioned "Entrance to Beder Fort, Beder, Dec 1892." The second is of a village and is captioned "A Deccan village - this serves as a type of one of these villages built at a period when the Pindarees used to roam about the country robbing villages. The high walls were built with a view to protection from these depredations, On the march, near [Kundapur], Jan 1893." 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
