Like most major European ethnology collections, this Viennese institution is full of surprises and unusual objects, collected mostly during the Hapsburg Empire. This includes select albums by Austrian and German travelers to India, including Dr. Joseph Troll who spent some time in Kashmir during the 1880s and brought back an album

of early John Burke images of Kashmiri people, like this Prince photographed in Srinagar in the early 1860s.

[From the Museum's self-description of the photo-collection]

"The collection includes important examples of early travel and research photography, including works by Albert Frisch, Joachim von Brenner-Felsach, Otto Finsch, Oscar Baumann, Eduard Hodek, Rudolf Pöch, Helene and Rudolf Oldenburg, Christoph Fürer-Haimendorf und Mario Baldi. In addition, the extensive holdings document the development of commercial photography outside of Europe in the late 19th century through photos from established studios."

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