Lot Essay
Personal albums beginning with group portraits and rowing scenes with C.E.S. Bower at Radley School, military portraits and images of camp life during the South African war including hoisting the horses onto the ships, boxing matches, pillow fights; views around Madeira; several images from a shooting trip to Kashmir, 1905 including portraits of Ladaki women, 'headmen' in the Indus Valley, coolies, a shikari; baggage yaks, 'Cairn on pass' (illus.); an image of a 'pony girl clipping a yak'; views around Wardwan; views from a second trip to Kashmir, 1907, including a portrait of C.E.S. Bower on Zoji La, images from the camp, rafting scenes on the Indus, a group portrait of three natives with antelope heads, a portrait of a Fakir lying on a bed of nails; and several military portraits, 1914-19.