Edward Waller Stoney

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Edward Waller Stoney

Indian landscapes, a portrait of an Indian woman and still life, early 1900s

Nineteen autochromes: four 6¼ x 4½ in., mounted together in original wood frame with paper label inscribed in ink Autochromes E. W. Stoney on verso; fourteen 5 x 4 in., mounted together in two original wood frames, one with paper label as above (partially detached), the other with glass cracked; one (cracked) in T. Mason wood autochrome viewer; with twelve hand-coloured lantern slides in original wood frame, three family snapshot albums, a quantity of loose photographs, two letters of condolence on the death of Mr. Stoney and a photocopied booklet Brief Memoir of Edward Waller Stoney. (a lot)

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E. W. Stoney, C.I.E., M.E., M. Inst. C.E., received numerous awards and honours degrees for studies on engineering. In 1866 he was appointed as 4th Class Engineer on the Madras Railway and shortly after was given an executive post on the N.W. line over the Penner River. This was completed in 1869. He remained in India and by 1870 had become a 1st Class Engineer and by 1898 was Chief Engineer of the Madras Railway. In 1891 he was made a Fellow of Madras University.

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