Miscellaneous scenes, places, and people in India and the Middle East

Groups include: men on camels; family and wedding groups; Indian Mission of Fellowship. People include: snake charmer; the ex-Queen of Burma [Queen Supayalat] and her 2 daughters; various fakirs; Mr P Oomman Philip, Rev. A Ralla Ram, Bishop Banerjee, Daw Nyein Tha, Mr A M Varki (Indian Mission). Act...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/India/Photographs/Box 2
Date(s) of creation: c.1885 - June 1958
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/India/Photographs/Box 2
Summary: Groups include: men on camels; family and wedding groups; Indian Mission of Fellowship. People include: snake charmer; the ex-Queen of Burma [Queen Supayalat] and her 2 daughters; various fakirs; Mr P Oomman Philip, Rev. A Ralla Ram, Bishop Banerjee, Daw Nyein Tha, Mr A M Varki (Indian Mission). Activities featured include: bull treading the chollum; irrigating rice field from artificial lake; "Syrian" Christians returning from a meeting. Places or buildings featured include: graveyard somewhere in the Middle East; "new science and extra classrooms block at [unidentified] School, attached to the end of the old building". Also includes: ?"oil mill"; ?"Jokumau", one of India's gods; board displaying Illustrated Weekly covers; mother and baby elephants. Prints taken by or received from individuals, etc. including: ?Zangaki; S Cowan.
Extent: 31 sepia or black and white prints
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by various (many probably out of copyright)
File number: 5
Copies: Some marked up for possible publication
Format: Archive