Collection: India In Snapshot: Woods, G india-photograph-album-1889-1893-00051-60391
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Item Reference: Lt Colonel George Woods' India album/12
Description
Album page from Woods' leave in 1893 to visit his brother in Assam and to visit Darjeeling. Photograph of a railway captioned "The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway; The railway here ascends by zigzags, space and formation of hills at this portion of the ascent being unsuitable for curves. Height 3500 ft, June 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
