ASIA AND INDONESIA
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION

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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION

India, England and Switzerland, 1860s

Eighteen albumen prints, approx. 4 x 6 in. to 9 5/8 x 13 3/8 in., mounted on album leaves, each titled and the majority with photographers' credits on mounts with distinctive A.P.A. reference numbering system, several also inscribed with negative process details. (18)

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The photographs which are identified are as follows:

Capt. P. A. Elphinstone - Annual Fair at Pattroorda Berar; Mode of
Irrigation by the "Sop" or handbasket; Spotted Antelope
Doe; Group in Berar Central India (each from a wet collodion negative)
Dorabjee Pudumjee - Mango tree in Nulla (wet collodion); Lake side, Susas Bay (prize picture); At Susas Bay (prize picture)
Capt. W. H. Mason - Mahomedan Tombs at Hookeree, near Belgaum (wet
collodion)
Lieut. H. W. Senior - Barramoula, Valley of Cashmere; The Haiser Bagh, Lucknow; Fort Attock on the Indus; The Golden Temple & City of Amritzar (each from a wet collodion negative)
Lieut. E. A. Bayley - Jain Temple, Gwalior (tannin negative)
Col. Biggs R. A. - Date Palms, Belgaum (calotype negative)
G. Bevington - Chalet at Engelberg (wet collodion)
A. Booty - Snow scene in Epping Forest (prize picture)

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