People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, Volume Three

People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, Volume Three

Bound volume

John Forbes Watson

Scottish, 1827–1892

John William Kaye

British, 1814–1876

People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, Volume Three

1868
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 13 1/4 × 10 × 1 3/4 in. (33.7 × 25.4 × 4.4 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1993.1535.0001-0063
DescriptionBook containing 63 albumen silver prints depicting Indian citizens. Book was prepared under the authority of the government of India and published by Wm. H. Allen and Co, publishers to the India Office. Photographs are accompanied by captions and descriptive text. Cover is bound in red cloth and contains black and gold decorative elements. The tile is debossed in gold on the spine.
Inscriptions Painted in white on front cover, TRC: 1868
Debossed in gold in spine, T: THE \ PEOPLE \ OF \ INDIA \ VOL.III

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