Newton & Co.. Canadian Pacific World Cruise and W.M.S.S.U.

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Newton & Co.. Canadian Pacific World Cruise and W.M.S.S.U.
Portraits, views and architectural studies, India, Burmah and Ceylon, circa 1900
Sixty-eight lantern-slides, forty-seven hand-coloured, the majority titled in white ink and with printed credit labels Newton & Co...London (15), W.M.S.S.U. (38) and Canadian Pacific World Cruise (15), paper-taped, in original wooden box, titled India [Hindu] on paper label on lid. (68)

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Several from the series titled 'Popular Hinduism' including portraits of natives in traditional dress, shopkeepers, a fakir on a bed of nails, musicians, women washing at a riverside; views of temples, river scenes and street views; the other series include Lama priests, 'Mourners at a Burning Ghat', 'a Coolie Laborer', a street barber, views of elephants and a few views in Kandy, Ceylon.

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