Views of India

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Various Photographers, late 19th century
Views of India
an album containing 93 photographs, mounted on 47 card leaves, the majority comprising views of India, including Bombay and environs, Delhi and Agra, and studies of Indian types and costumes
albumen prints
7 x 9in. (17.8 x 22.9cm.) and smaller
with an album of photographs compiled by Frederick Allen Bates recording his passage to India and Burma, 1907-08, and an album of photographs compiled by H.H. MacColl, a district forestry officer with the Bombay Burmah Trading Company, recording his time in Burma, 1931-39 (3)

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Lot Essay

The Bates family had strong ties with India from the moment Joseph Bates (1769-1846) took advantage of the ending of the East India Company's monopoly on trade with India and started a business exporting his woolen cloth from Halifax via the burgeoning port of Liverpool. Frederick Allen Bates (1884-1957) went out to Bombay in 1907.

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