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.

From the Description

There are approximately 26,000 photographs in the Archives and Manuscripts division of the Library which have been donated or deposited with archives or private papers collections. Many of the photographs await detailed cataloguing but it is apparent that while the vast majority date from the first half of the twentieth century there are a significant number of nineteenth century photographs.

Most of the photographers were amateurs though the work of Samuel Bourne in India, Sir John Kirk in East and Central Africa and John William Lindt in Papua New Guinea, is represented in the holdings. Photographs are to be found with the papers of Sir Charles and Sir John Addis; the Bowra Papers and other Chinese Maritime Customs papers; Durand papers and Moraes Papers; Barbara Whittingham Jones; Lorimer Collection; and the Powell collection which is particularly good on photographs of tribal peoples in the Philippines.

About 300 images of India are available at the Internet Mission Photography Archive.

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