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  • SOAS Archives

    SOAS Archive
    An important British collection, which contains photographs by many masters of 19th century Raj photography, as well as an extensive oral archive or life during the Raj. Images are best seen by appointment in London, although a few hundred are available online.Read more

  • Basel Mission Image Archive

    Bourne and Shepherd Portrait
    The Basel Mission archives contain historical photographs, written records, printed and hand-drawn maps and building plans. Missionary collections like this one include subjects and regions often inaccessible or passed over by other photographers.Read more

  • National Archives of Pakistan

    Ruttie Jinnah
    The official Pakistan archives includes all of Mohammed Ali Jinnah's papers and photo-albums, as well as other material relating to the Independence movement. It is also the only archive to have a complete collection in its original paper form of The Civil and Military Gazette, the Lahore paper that Rudyard Kipling once worked for.Read more

  • Hulton Archive (Getty Images)

    Water palace, Udaipur
    Hulton Archive is the archival collection of Getty Images. Our extensive holdings of 19th century prints include works from India, Afghanistan and Burma by Bourne, Shepherd, Tripe, Burke, Beato, Sache and many more. Although not open to the public, research provision is made for curators, historians and academics and material is available for exhibition loan.

  • The Kern Institute

    Vogel Collection of India
    The Kern Institute is the Dutch national centre of expertise for South Asia and the Himalayan region. It also holds the Vogel Collection of some 10,000 images, many of which have to do with early 20th century archaeology in India and Pakistan.Read more

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  • The Alkazi Collection of Photography

    Bourne 1863
    The Alkazi Collection is the finest private collection of early photography from the Indian subcontinent. With over 85,000 images, it includes material from most of the great photographers and starting in the 1850s. The collection is the passion of a single India-based collector, Ebrahim Alkazi,Read more