Photographs mainly of religious buildings and their worshippers in India

Photographs taken or collected by Marris of mosques, Hindu and Jain temples, churches, hospitals, tombs, forts, palaces, mission property, missionary staff and worshippers, Hindu holy men and fakirs, statues (including of the Buddha), street scenes, landscapes, villages, entertainers, local people a...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 627B
Date(s) of creation: c1906-c1927
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 627B
Summary: Photographs taken or collected by Marris of mosques, Hindu and Jain temples, churches, hospitals, tombs, forts, palaces, mission property, missionary staff and worshippers, Hindu holy men and fakirs, statues (including of the Buddha), street scenes, landscapes, villages, entertainers, local people at work and at leisure in Dichpalli, Somnarpur [?Samarpur], Goa, Benares [Varanasi], Tirupati, Hyderabad, Ooty, Shimoga, Halebri [?Halebid], Kolata, Hassan, Baroda [Vadodara], Mysore, Agmere, Tumkur, Bangalore, Halibeed, Chikmapalur [?Chikmagalur], Agra, Bababudan and Darjeeling. With one image of Gibraltar and one of Colombo [Sri Lanka]. Most images are identified on the rear and some are dated.
Extent: 129 items
Access status: Open
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
File number: 3
Format: Archive