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Elephant hunting in Assam, circa 1888

Album of eighteen albumen prints, each approx. 7½ x 9 in., mounted one-per-page with printed title labels on verso, one dated 1888, half morocco (front cover detached), gilt, g.e., oblong 4to.

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Including a portrait of G. P. Sanderson, superintendent of Kheddahs and Gomastah, the chief commissioning agent; various ways of "hobbling" an elephant, elephants being trained, elephants being marched across rivers and through the jungle; group portraits including Sanderson with Keddah officials, servants; the camp showing Hindus cooking, the tents and toilet facilities; Garo people carrying cotton to market and the weekly market at Demra near the Garo Hills.

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