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Title from front flyleaf.Captions, often detailed, are written beneath each photograph.Many of the 148 photographs (including the two-part group portrait panorama) in the album can be attributed to Pune-based British photographer F.B. Stewart, including a number that were reproduced in the illustrated weekly news journals The Sketch and The Graphic. Other photographs of a more amateur nature were likely taken by Adams-Wylie or his close associates.Binding Note: The album is half-bound in green and black morocco leather with "Photographs" embossed in gilt on the front cover. The front flyleaf bears a title written in a devised font composed of bones and skulls.The album was most likely compiled by Dr. Charles Henry Benjamin Adams (later Adams-Wylie), a plague medical officer at the General Plague Hospital in Poona (Pune), India from 1897 until early 1898. The album records the work of the General Plague Hospital in great detail. The photographs document the daily work of the hospital and include portraits of hospital staff, views of the hospital wards and grounds, and detailed close-up studies of plague patients. Photographs taken outside the hospital compound document the measures instituted by Pune's Special Plague Committee and enforced by the British and native soldiers, such as the white-washing of homes, views of the segregation camps where residents were sent while their districts were disinfected and views of the observation camps that held households with family members known to have the plague, as well images of burial grounds and Hindu funeral pyres.Also included in the album are...
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Albumen Prints India 19th Century.Gelatin Silver Prints India 19th Century.Gelatin Silver Prints India 20th Century.Group Portraits India 19th Century.Panoramas India 19th Century.Photograph Albums India 19th Century.Photographs, Original.
Sclanders, Alexander, correspondentStewart, F. B.,(Francis Benjamin), d.1919, photographer
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