Selected South Asia Holdings

Black and white lantern slide showing a small girl in a spotted dress holding a doll. She stands on the terrace to a mission building. The caption to the slide …

“View from top of Tower of Victory.” View of landscape surrounding Chittaurgarh. Chittaurgarh served as the third capital of the Mewar kingdom before it was sacked and the capital moved …

“Top of Chittore [Chittorgarh] fort.” View of landscape with Chittaurgarh buildings visible in the background. The Tower of Fame and the Meerabai Temple are identifiable. Chittaurgarh served as the third …

"New buildings at Medak." New buildings at the Medak Institution for Christian Training funded by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Centenary collections in 1913. From a set of lantern slides …

"C. - Missions de l'Inde - Famille de Parsis, adoratrice du feu." A family poses for the camera. The family includes a mother, father, to young women, one young man, …

Portrait of a women standing barefoot, with a baby tied to her back with a long piece of cloth. This image belongs to an album of photographs collected by Dr. …

"Series XII. - 4. Native business." An elderly woman and a young woman work with what looks like cow manure as they squat on the ground. Additional information on the …

"Series I. - 5. Indian Wrestlers." Two men wrestle each other outside a thatched-roof house. Three people watch them. Additional information on the back notes that postcard profits benefit Industrial …

"Houses in hills, built one on another, India. [Kinar?] Village". Landscape showing tiered houses on a hillside. This village is in the region of Dalhouise in the Punjab and sits …

Group portrait of indigenous people from the Himalayan area of Chamba. There are several rows with the women at the front, they are all wearing traditional dress and the women …