DEVARE & CO.

'Investiture of his Highness Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur of Indore. 9th May 1930.'

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DEVARE & CO.
'Investiture of his Highness Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur of Indore. 9th May 1930.'
Album of eighty-three photographs, carbon prints, various sizes from approx. 3 x 5 in. to 8 x 11 in., some trimmed oval, printed title labels on mounts, photographer's gilt morocco credit label inside front cover By Special Appointment to ......... Devare & Co., Artists & Photographers, Fort. Bombay, half maroon morocco, gilt, titled in gilt with crest of the Maharaja on front cover, g.e., oblong folio.

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A fine album including large format portraits of the Maharaja (illus.) and the Prime Minister of Indore, Rai Bahadur S. M. Bapna; processions, the Durbar at the King Edward Hall; state banquets and fireworks; His Highness at the Residency and the Old Palace including an Indian State Dinner there; the Prime Minister's 'At Home' at Baxi Bagh; views, including some interiors of the Old Palace, the King Edward Hall, the High Court, the New Moti Bungalow (Secretariat Offices), Yeshwant Niwas Palace, Maharani Waranasi Bai's Sarai, Lal Bagh Palace, Baxi Bagh, Daly College, Manik Bagh Palace, Sukh Niwas Palace, the Chhatri of Bolia Saheb, Chaatri Bagh and Holkar College; views of Piplia Pala and a river scene at Krishnapura.

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