WAUIndianArchitecturePHColl674.xml Guide to the Indian Architecture Photograph Collection circa 1890s Indian Architecture Photograph Collection Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2005 (Last modified: 4/16/2018)
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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections PH0674 Indian Architecture Photograph Collection circa 1890s 15 photographic prints (1 box) Collection materials are in English. Photographs depicting various sites on the west coast of India, many of which are in or around Ahmadābād.

The collection contains fifteen large photographs depicting a variety of sites, including religious buildings such as temples, mosques, and shrines, as well as commercial and domestic architecture, on the west coast of India. Many of the sites depicted are in or around Ahmadābād. At least one of the photographs was taken by the well-known photographer Henry Cousens, who took many pictures of Indian architecture during the last few years of the 19th century.

Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries’ Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Request at UW

The photographs formerly belonged to the Santa Barbara Free Public Library's collection.

Source: Jerry Parmer Booksellers, 1990.

Processed by Scott Forland, 2003; Beck Prigot, 2015. Processing completed in 2015.

 Cousens, Henry, 1854-1934 Ahmadābād (India)--Photographs India--Photographs Mosques--India--Ahmadābād--Photographs Architecture, Islamic--India--Photographs Temples--India--Photographs Architecture, Jaina--India--Photographs Bazaars (Markets)--India--Photographs Dwellings--India--Photographs Architectural photographs Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington) Photographs International Architecture Religion

 

1 Bazaar, Ahmadābād, India circa 1890s 2 Door of old palace used as jail, Ahmadābād, India circa 1890s 3 Entrance to Jain temple, Ahmadābād, India circa 1890s 4 Mosque, Ahmadābād, India circa 1890s 5 Mosque circa 1890s Henry Cousens 6 Interior of Jame Mosque circa 1890s 7 Amber Palace circa 1890s 8 Mobile shrine circa 1890s 9 Detail of Mahajan's wada, Yeola, India circa 1890s

A wada is a type of dwelling.

 10 Mehta Nathmul's house with people and camel circa 1890s 11 Seventeenth-century housefront circa 1890s

Sign reads "Nilkanthrai Dayabhai L. M. and S."

12 Building ruins circa 1890s 13 Islamic building with people and street light circa 1890s 14 Islamic building circa 1890s 15 Street buildings and onlookers circa 1890s