India [Bengal] Photograph Album, ca. 1897

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Summary

Abstract:
One album containing 22 black and white photographs, a few with captions in English.
Extent:
0.2 linear feet (1 half-size document box)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

India [Bengal] Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 257. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

One album containing 22 black and white photographs, a few with captions in English, showing the Kamarhatty [West Bengal] Jute Mill, jute flats, a snake charmer, a side-wheeler, earthquake damage on Bentinck St. [Calcutta] from the 1897 magnitude 8.7 Assam, India earthquake. Also views possibly of the Himalayas, local residents, and shopkeepers, as well as a portrait of a Burmese lady.

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Acquisition information:
Purchase, 2006.
Physical location:
Del Norte.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

India [Bengal] Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 257. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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