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JOHNSTON AND HOFFMANN [P.A. JOHNSTON AND THEODORE JULIUS HOFFMANN (c.1855-1921)]
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JOHNSTON AND HOFFMANN [P.A. JOHNSTON AND THEODORE JULIUS HOFFMANN (c.1855-1921)]

Dacca - portraits and architecture

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JOHNSTON AND HOFFMANN [P.A. JOHNSTON AND THEODORE JULIUS HOFFMANN (c.1855-1921)]
Dacca - portraits and architecture
Album of 57 individual albumen prints and one three-part panorama. Circa 1890s. Each approximately 8¼ x 10½ in. (21.1 x 26.9 cm.) or the reverse, the panorama 7¾ x 29¾ in. (19.7 x 75.5 cm.), linen-backed, mounted within red printed borders, titled in ink and each with photographer's printed credit on the mount, full leather (the front cover damaged where centre-piece removed), gilt, g.e., gilt clasp, large folio.
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Lot Essay

Portraits identified as the Nawab Abdool Gunny, probably the compiler of the album, Nawab Ahsunollah, Khajeh Hafizollah (2) and The Station Group with H. H. the Lt. Governor & Suit. The remainder mostly architectural subjects including unusual views of mosques, palaces, The Mitford Hospital, the Northbrook Hall, the waterworks, the Mill Barracks and the Iron Suspension Bridge.

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