Part of sequence of mounted prints, some with captions

Groups include: "raw recruits"; LMS Girls' Anglo-Vernacular School, Bellary, doing sash drill; deputation with teachers and 2 upper classes of Girls' School, Tirupatur; Lechler Institute [Salem]; South India United Church Assembly; Christian women in front of their homes, Madras [Chennai]; village s...

Full description


Order number: CWM/LMS/India/Photographs/Box 3
Date(s) of creation: c.1895 - c.1915
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/India/Photographs/Box 3
Summary: Groups include: "raw recruits"; LMS Girls' Anglo-Vernacular School, Bellary, doing sash drill; deputation with teachers and 2 upper classes of Girls' School, Tirupatur; Lechler Institute [Salem]; South India United Church Assembly; Christian women in front of their homes, Madras [Chennai]; village school groups near Palladam and Pidauyur, Erode. People featured include: sweetmeat sellers; hill musician playing a sarangi; [Anthony] Brough; mendicants; [Marie] Christlieb (Telugu). Events featured include: Hindu festival in connection with the worship of Kali, Maliyampollium, Erode; procession through village and opening of church in Goundachepollium. Activities featured include: evening drill; road making; making paper from the bark of a banana tree, Coimbatore; children working; weaving cloths, Bangalore; dining and sleeping in the open; taking "a new idol" to the temple, Pavendurai, Erode. Other places or buildings featured include: view from near Phurkia, Kumaon (mocked up with title On the borders of Tibet); High School, Coimbatore; Kongalpallium, Erode. Also includes: Swamy bull; first tricycle made in Bangalore by J Paul. Prints taken by bodies including: Del Tufo and Company.
Previous numbers: D4?, D4?, D47, D48, D49, D50, D51, D52, D53, D54, D55, D56, D57, D60
Extent: 52 black and white or sepia prints mounted on 14 cards
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright probably expired
File number: 10
Copies: Some prints appear on more than one card. Some marked up for possible publication.
Format: Archive