HERZOG & HIGGINS
HERZOG & HIGGINS

'Visit of His Excellency the Viceroy. Bhopal, November 1899'

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HERZOG & HIGGINS
'Visit of His Excellency the Viceroy. Bhopal, November 1899'
Album of forty-eight photographs, 4 x 5 in. to approx. 9 x 14 in., the majority with printed paper title labels giving photographers' reference number, rebacked, with original burgundy morocco laid down, ruled in gilt on covers and spine, titled and with photographers' credit Herzog & Higgins, Mhow, C.I. in gilt on front cover, g.e., oblong folio.

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A fine portrait of Lord Curzon, others including Lieut. Col. David William Keith Barr, Agent to the Governor-General, formal portrait groups, one including Lord and Lady Curzon; the arrival and departure of dignitaries at Bhopal Railway Station including Her Highness the Begum, the Governor-General and the Foreign Secretary; the 'Lall Kothi' where the Viceroy stayed showing views of the interior of the drawing room, the garden and the visitors' camp; triumphal arches, state elephants, reviews of troops; a camel carriage; several views of the city, the ghat, palaces, the 'Fatehgarh Fort' and 'Taj Mahal'; the Tomb of 'Her Highness the late Sikandur Begum' and several views of the Sanchi Tope.

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