Photograph album depicting sights, hunting, and equestrian themes in India and Egypt.

c. 1891-1898.

Price: $1,250.00


About the item

25 album card leaves with 117 mounted photographs with captions in pencil below. 12 x 16-1/2 inches. Contemporary half black morocco over pebbled cloth. Extremities worn, occasional foxing and thumbsoiling, slight curvature to album leaves, occasional toning or fading to photographs.

Item #318033

Anonymous album containing numerous photographs of scenery, people, and sport, primarily in India (Kashmir and surrounding area, Zoji La is a high mountain pass in the Himalayas in the Indian union territory of Ladakh, The Sind Valley 4 are large 11-1/2 x 9 inch plates.) but with a small Egypt section at the end. Photos of campsites, horses, military troops, picnics and gatherings, cultural sights, etc., many with penciled-in captions at dated 1891 in some.

With at least 4 phortos of polo at Alexandria.