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Photographers in India include John Edward Saché (studios in towns across northern India); G.K. Vale, [[Bangalore]]; [[:Category:R B Holmes|R.B. Holmes]] of [[Peshawar]]; D.J. Divechia of [[Rawalpindi]]; [[:Category:Guerra and Sons|Guerra & Sons]], [[Mhow]], Central India; Herzog and Higgins of Mhow, Raja Deen Dayal etc<ref>Feltham, John [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2012-06/1339251074 A New Book about early photographers in India] ''Rootsweb India- British-Raj  Mailing List'' 10 Jun 2012 and Feltham, John et al. [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ/2012-06/1339383057 Photographers] ''Rootsweb India- British-Raj  Mailing List'' 11 Jun 2012 et al. Retrieved 18 October 2014</ref>
Photographers in India include John Edward Saché (studios in towns across northern India); G.K. Vale, [[Bangalore]]; [[:Category:R B Holmes|R.B. Holmes]] of [[Peshawar]]; D.J. Divechia of [[Rawalpindi]]; [[:Category:Guerra and Sons|Guerra & Sons]], [[Mhow]], Central India; Herzog and Higgins of Mhow, Raja Deen Dayal etc.<ref>Feltham, John [https://web.archive.org/web/20210210020522/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india-british-raj&thread=987043 A New Book about early photographers in India] ''Rootsweb India- British-Raj  Mailing List'' 10 Jun 2012, archived and Feltham, John et al. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210321025814/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india-british-raj&thread=987038 Photographers] ''Rootsweb India- British-Raj  Mailing List'' 11 Jun 2012 et al., archived.</ref>


Photographer William D. Holmes was the brother in law of John Edward  Sache, one of the most prominent 19th century European photographers in India. Holmes joined Sache in Lucknow in 1877 and founded a studio in his own name in 1889.<ref>Antiquedogs (Lauren) [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9787#p48205 Uniform - Lucknow, c.1880?]  ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 14 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014</ref>
Photographer William D. Holmes was the brother in law of John Edward  Sache, one of the most prominent 19th century European photographers in India. Holmes joined Sache in Lucknow in 1877 and founded a studio in his own name in 1889.


==FIBIS resources==
==FIBIS resources==
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==Related articles==
==Related articles==
* [[Clifton & Co, Photographers (Bombay)]]
* [[Clifton & Co, Photographers (Bombay)]]
*[[:Category:Postcard_Publishers | Postcard Publishers]] = Galleries of early postcards of India.
*[[:Category:Postcard_Publishers | Postcard Publishers]] = Image Galleries and Articles relating to early postcard publishers of India.
*[[:Category:Bremner photographic postcards|Photographic postcards of celebrated photographer Fred Bremner]]
*[[:Category:Bremner photographic postcards|Photographic postcards of celebrated photographer Fred Bremner]]


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====Photographs====
====Photographs====
*Search the  British Library’s [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/index.html Online Gallery]  
*Search the  British Library’s [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/index.html Online Gallery]
*[http://oldindianphotos.blogspot.com Old Indian Photos] –divided into various categories.
*[https://www.oldindianphotos.in    Old Indian Photos: Historical Photographs of Indian Subcontinent] –tagged for  various categories. oldindianphotos.in
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00 History of Pakistan]’s photostream on [http://www.flickr.com Flickr]
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00 History of Pakistan]’s photostream on [http://www.flickr.com Flickr]
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/india.php India],  [http://www.imagesofasia.com/pakistan.php  Pakistan] Postcards from Images of Asia c 1910
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFRT_2ZJfPc ''Perspectives of Early Photographers in Kashmir 1861-1920''] by Hugh Rayner 21 Jan 2023. YouTube video presentation. The talk is illustrated with photographs taken primarily from the Hugh A. Rayner Collection of Early Indian Photography.


===Articles===
===Articles===
*[http://www.iias.nl/nl/44/IIAS_NL44_1011.pdf Photography in India] (pdf) from the International Institute for Asian Studies(IIAS)-Netherlands
*"Photography in India" Page 10, ''Newsletter 44'', Summer 2007 from the International Institute for Asian Studies(IIAS)-Netherlands [https://issuu.com/iias/docs/iias_nl_44 issuu.com version], or download the Newsletter from [https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/newsletter-44-summer-2007 iias.asia]
*[http://www.ranadasgupta.com/notes.asp?note_id=73 Pioneers of Indian Photography] by John Falconer
*[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc93303/m2/1/high_res_d/Joyce_Megan.pdf Photography in Colonial and Post Colonial India] (pdf) by Megan Joyce
*[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc93303/m2/1/high_res_d/Joyce_Megan.pdf Photography in Colonial and Post Colonial India] (pdf) by Megan Joyce
*[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120708/jsp/opinion/story_15689712.jsp Lens on the Great Game - Earliest commercial photographers in the North-West Frontier] by Malavika Karlekar July 8 , 2012 ''The Telegraph, Calcutta''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151016190147/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120708/jsp/opinion/story_15689712.jsp Lens on the Great Game - Earliest commercial photographers in the North-West Frontier] by Malavika Karlekar July 8 , 2012 ''The Telegraph, Calcutta'', now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.simonnorfolk.com/burkenorfolk/conversation.html  Burke and Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk: Conversation with Simon Norfolk]. John Burke (1843?-1900) was the first ever photographer to make pictures in Afghanistan. simonnorfolk.com
*[http://www.simonnorfolk.com/burkenorfolk/conversation.html  Burke and Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk: Conversation with Simon Norfolk]. John Burke (1843?-1900) was the first ever photographer to make pictures in Afghanistan. simonnorfolk.com
*[http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/05/early-british-colonial-travellers-photograph-19th-century-india/ "Early British Colonial Travellers Show Earliest Images of India"]  by Ciaran Thapar, 5 May 2016. ''British Journal of Photography'' website, category Exhibitions. The work of Linnaeus Tripe, Dr John Murray and Samuel Bourne. [http://prahladbubbar.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tripe-Murray-Bourne-website.pdf Photographs from the Exhibition]
*[http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/05/early-british-colonial-travellers-photograph-19th-century-india/ "Early British Colonial Travellers Show Earliest Images of India"]  by Ciaran Thapar, 5 May 2016. ''British Journal of Photography'' website, category Exhibitions. The work of Linnaeus Tripe, Dr John Murray and Samuel Bourne. [http://prahladbubbar.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tripe-Murray-Bourne-website.pdf Photographs from the Exhibition]
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*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app Luminous Lint website] A collaborative website sharing information on photography and photographers worldwide. For India related articles chose Connections from drop down box and add search term India in box immediately below.
*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app Luminous Lint website] A collaborative website sharing information on photography and photographers worldwide. For India related articles chose Connections from drop down box and add search term India in box immediately below.
*[http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/beato/  Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road]. An exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum. Felice Beato was in India 1858-60, and Burma 1887-1905.
*[http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/beato/  Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road]. An exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum. Felice Beato was in India 1858-60, and Burma 1887-1905.
**[http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576061931702951172 Photograph: Hospital Shwebo, [Burma<nowiki>]</nowiki> with Different Descriptions of Ambulances, 1887 – 1897] Wall Street Journal.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20150529070358/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576061931702951172 Photograph: Hospital Shwebo, [Burma<nowiki>]</nowiki> with descriptions of different  Ambulances, 1887 – 1897] Wall Street Journal, now an archived webpage.
**[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2015/09/the-marriage-of-east-and-west-conservation-of-a-photographic-album-from-burma.html  Conservation of a Photographic Album from Burma]. British Library Collection Care blog.
**[http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/collectioncare/2015/09/the-marriage-of-east-and-west-conservation-of-a-photographic-album-from-burma.html  Conservation of a Photographic Album from Burma]. British Library Collection Care blog.
*Samuel Bourne. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bourne Wikipedia]  [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022C-E Photographs in Cambridge]. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/photohistorytimeline/6232958024/in/set-72157610082277020/  Photograph by Samuel Bourne - Lake, Nynee Tal, 1860] flickr.com.
*Samuel Bourne. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bourne Wikipedia]  [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022C-E Photographs in Cambridge]. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/photohistorytimeline/6232958024/in/set-72157610082277020/  Photograph by Samuel Bourne - Lake, Nynee Tal, 1860] flickr.com.
:[http://www.tasveerarts.com/exhibitions/Bourne/ Bourne & Shepherd : Figures In Time] An exhibition sourced from the photographic collection of MAP (Museum of Art & Photography, Bangalore) tasveerarts.com. [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36137287 Photographs from the exhibition]  7 May 2016 bbc.com. [http://scroll.in/article/808442/in-pictures-19th-century-india-through-the-eyes-of-samuel-bourne Article] by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri  May 31, 2016. Scroll.in.  [https://www.scoopwhoop.com/The-Oldest-Functional-Photo-Studio-In-the-World-Shuts-Down-In-Kolkata-After-176-Years/  "The Oldest Functional Photo Studio In the World Shuts Down In Kolkata After 176 Years"] by Rakhi Bose Jun 17, 2016. scoopwhoop.com. [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160825/jsp/opinion/story_104210.jsp  "Shutting shop- Samuel Bourne's eye-view of Calcutta"] by Malavika Karlekar August 25, 2016 ''The Telegraph'' Calcutta.
:[http://www.tasveerarts.com/exhibitions/Bourne/ Bourne & Shepherd : Figures In Time] An exhibition sourced from the photographic collection of MAP (Museum of Art & Photography, Bangalore) tasveerarts.com. [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36137287 Photographs from the exhibition]  7 May 2016 bbc.com. [http://scroll.in/article/808442/in-pictures-19th-century-india-through-the-eyes-of-samuel-bourne Article] by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri  May 31, 2016. Scroll.in.  [https://www.scoopwhoop.com/The-Oldest-Functional-Photo-Studio-In-the-World-Shuts-Down-In-Kolkata-After-176-Years/  "The Oldest Functional Photo Studio In the World Shuts Down In Kolkata After 176 Years"] by Rakhi Bose Jun 17, 2016. scoopwhoop.com.  
*Fred Bremner. [http://old.harappa.com/bremner/index.html Fred Bremner’s Indian Years 1882-1923] by Brij Bhushan Sharma. old.harappa.com. Includes links to a number of essays. There is no link for Essay 1, but it is available in [https://web.archive.org/web/20141209053003/http://www.harappa.com/bremner/photography-baluchistan.html an archived form]. Includes quotes from his autobiography ''My Forty Years in India'', published 1940, (now available in a reprint edition<ref> [http://www.pagodatreepress.com/40yearsinindia-b.html ''My Forty Years in India'' by Fred Bremner] Pagoda Tree Press</ref>) The website includes a series of 9 Indian soldier images from his pictorial album ''Types of the British Indian Army 1895'', which contained c 60 images.
*[[Fred Bremner]].  
:[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Fred__Bremner/A/ Fred Bremner] luminous-lint.com. Includes commercial details.
*John Burke [http://web.archive.org/web/20090117080242/http://fsaijazuddin.pk/ArticleDetailsFull.aspx?op=E&NewsID=130 Some biographical details] by F S Aijazuddin. [http://www.afghanboxcamera.com/abcp_about_photographyinafghanistan.htm About Photography in Afghanistan] John Burke and other early photographers in Afghanistan. Afghan Box Camera Project. [https://library.brown.edu/info/collections/askb/burke/ Details] of some photographs held at the Brown University Library, Providence R I, USA, taken in Afghanistan in 1878.  
:Fred Bremner also published a number of books in respect of British Army regiments which included a short history but mainly consisted of photographs. Three of these are available at the British Library, and others <ref>Sourced from the book [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wmm-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1  ''A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army''] by Arthur S. White. Google Books</ref> perhaps may be available at Regimental Museums or Archives, but otherwise appear to be rare.
:*''2nd Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders} Peshawar India 1907''. Photographs and publication by F Bremner
:*''The 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, illustrated. With brief historical account of the services of the Regiment, etc''. Quetta : Fred Bremner, 1902.  British Library reference UIN: BLL01004039706
:*''The 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment illustrated. With brief historical account of the services of the Regiment.  Ferozepore ... 1906''.  Lahore : Fred. Bremner, [1906].  British Library UIN: BLL01001096457
:*''2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders Peshawar India 1907'' Lahore: Bremner 1907
:*''2nd Battalion Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers Ferozepore India 1908''. Lahore: Bremner 1908
:*''The 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment ... With brief historical account of the services of the regiment''. Quetta : Fred Bremner, 1899.  British Library UIN: BLL01004050083
:*South Lancashire Regiment. ''1st Battalion Prince of Wales’s Volunteers Lahore 1910''. Lahore: Bremner 1910. 
:*''1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Quetta Baluchistan 1903''.  Lahore: F Bremner 1907
:*West Yorkshire Regiment. ''1st Battalion Prince of Wales Own. Mian –Mir and Dalhousie, Punjab 1906''. Lahore F Bremner 1906 and ''1st Battalion Prince of Wales Own.  Rawalpindi 1910''. Lahore: F Bremner 1910
:*''1st Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment, Quetta Baluchistan 1899''. Quetta: F Bremner 1899
:*''1st Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, Quetta Baluchistan 1907''. Lahore: Bremner 1907.
*John Burke [http://web.archive.org/web/20090117080242/http://fsaijazuddin.pk/ArticleDetailsFull.aspx?op=E&NewsID=130 Some biographical details] by F S Aijazuddin. [http://www.afghanboxcamera.com/abcp_about_photographyinafghanistan.htm About Photography in Afghanistan] John Burke and other early photographers in Afghanistan. Afghan Box Camera Project. [http://library.brown.edu/collections/askb/burke.php Details] of some photographs held at the Brown University Library, Providence R I, USA, taken in Afghanistan in 1878. Retrieved 18 October 2014
*[http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/04/18/pioneer_photographer_deen_dayal_provides_a_portrait_of_india_siddiqui.html Pioneer photographer Deen Dayal provides a portrait of India] by Haroon Siddiqui  April 18 2013 thestar.com  Dayal (1844-1905) was a Hindu whose chief patron was the Muslim Nizam of Hyderabad , one of the richest men in the world, the ruler of the largest of India’s 565 princely states.
*[http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/04/18/pioneer_photographer_deen_dayal_provides_a_portrait_of_india_siddiqui.html Pioneer photographer Deen Dayal provides a portrait of India] by Haroon Siddiqui  April 18 2013 thestar.com  Dayal (1844-1905) was a Hindu whose chief patron was the Muslim Nizam of Hyderabad , one of the richest men in the world, the ruler of the largest of India’s 565 princely states.
**[http://ignca.nic.in/ex_0013.htm The Legacy of Raja Deen Dyal] ignca.nic.in
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20171214074733/http://ignca.nic.in:80/ex_0013.htm The Legacy of Raja Deen Dyal] ignca.nic.in, now an archived webpage.
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22212009 Rare 19th Century Pictures of India] Examples of photographs by Raja Deendayal (1844-1905) on BBC news website.
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22212009 Rare 19th Century Pictures of India] Examples of photographs by Raja Deendayal (1844-1905) on BBC news website.
*Captain R. B. Hill.  Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853. [http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?ft=Captain%20R%20B%20Hill&s=accession Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York collection of photographs 1850s]
*Captain R. B. Hill.  Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853. [https://www.metmuseum.org/search-results#!/search?q=Captain%20%22R.%20B.%20Hill%22 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York collection of photographs 1850s]. If link is not permanent, use the search term "Captain R. B. Hill".
*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Oscar_Jean-Baptiste__Mallitte/  Oscar Jean-Baptiste Mallitte] (luminous-lint.com) was a French surgeon turned photographer who arrived in Calcutta in 1857. [http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/60834/oscar-mallitte-the-planting-manufacture-of-indigo-in-india-29-photographic-views-by-oscar-mallitte-1877/ The Planting & Manufacture of Indigo in India. 29 Photographic views by Oscar Mallitte [1877<nowiki>]</nowiki>] (although fewer images are available online). J Paul Getty Museum. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfDyvmWxJlk YouTube video] , same images.
*[http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/A/ap_mccosh.htm John McCosh or MacCosh 1805-1885] Edinphoto.org.   
*[http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/A/ap_mccosh.htm John McCosh or MacCosh 1805-1885] Edinphoto.org.   
**There is an article  "The Laboratory of Mankind: John McCosh and the Beginning of Photography in British India" by Ray McKenzie, in ''History of Photography'', Volume 11, No. 2, April-June 1987, pages 109-118. This quarterly journal is available at the [[British Library]].   
**There is an article  "The Laboratory of Mankind: John McCosh and the Beginning of Photography in British India" by Ray McKenzie, in ''History of Photography'', Volume 11, No. 2, April-June 1987, pages 109-118. This quarterly journal is available at the [[British Library]].   
**[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1962-04-3-294 Surgeon John McCosh, Bengal Medical Establishment, 1852 (c)] nam.ac.uk
**[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1962-04-3-294 Surgeon John McCosh, Bengal Medical Establishment, 1852 (c)] nam.ac.uk
*[http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/John__Murray/ John Murray] (luminous-lint.com) "...is probably the most important photographer of nineteenth century India". Bengal Medical Service 1832-1871. Took up amateur photography 1849 and soon formed a friendship with another doctor, John McCosh (see immediately above). [https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/103KD7 Getty Museum page] with images.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140831215358/http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/studium/kultur/zbw/eshph/photoresearcher/photoresearcher_no13.pdf  "The Sachés: a family of photographers working in India during the 19th century"] by Stéphanie Roy Bharath ''PhotoResearcher ESHPh European Society for the History of Photography'' No 13, 2010 , page 4 (now archived). John Edward Saché (1824-1882), born in Prussia, arrived in Calcutta in late 1864, after working in the USA. [http://www.harappa.com/photographers/sachejohn.html John Edward Sache  1865-1882] harappa.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140831215358/http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/imperia/md/content/studium/kultur/zbw/eshph/photoresearcher/photoresearcher_no13.pdf  "The Sachés: a family of photographers working in India during the 19th century"] by Stéphanie Roy Bharath ''PhotoResearcher ESHPh European Society for the History of Photography'' No 13, 2010 , page 4 (now archived). John Edward Saché (1824-1882), born in Prussia, arrived in Calcutta in late 1864, after working in the USA. [http://www.harappa.com/photographers/sachejohn.html John Edward Sache  1865-1882] harappa.com
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaeus_Tripe Linnaeus Tripe] Wikipedia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100809185535/http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/features/photo_focus/tripe/biography/index.html Linnaeus Tripe], a biography by the V&A Museum, now an archived webpage (retrieved 29 May 2014).
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaeus_Tripe Linnaeus Tripe] Wikipedia. [https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/linnaeus-tripe-life-and-work Linnaeus Tripe], article on life and works by the V&A Museum.
*John Paul White. [http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/a-daughter-of-the-empire/family/jcw-career John Claude White - career] Kings’ College London. [http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/21/castles-in-the-air-experiences-and-journeys-in-unknown-bhutan/ "Castles in the Air: Experiences and Journeys in Unknown Bhutan"] by David Braun September 21, 2014 National Geographic. Article and photographs of Bhutan by John Claude White republished from the April 1914 issue of ''National Geographic Magazine''
*John Paul White. [http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/a-daughter-of-the-empire/family/jcw-career John Claude White - career] Kings’ College London.  
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329054352/http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/21/castles-in-the-air-experiences-and-journeys-in-unknown-bhutan/ "Castles in the Air: Experiences and Journeys in Unknown Bhutan"] by David Braun September 21, 2014 National Geographic, now an archived webpage. Article and photographs of Bhutan by John Claude White republished from the April 1914 issue of ''National Geographic Magazine''
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024155206 ''Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908''] by John Claude White. 1909 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024155206 ''Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908''] by John Claude White. 1909 Archive.org
*Wiele & Klein, Madras and Ootacamund
*Wiele & Klein, Madras and Ootacamund
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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/stream/lightsshadesofhi00gore#page/258/mode/2up "Photographic Notes"] Appendix A,  page 259 ''Lights & Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu Highlands of the Punjab, a Contrast''  by F St J Gore 1895 Archive.org. With photographs by the author.
*[https://archive.org/stream/lightsshadesofhi00gore#page/258/mode/2up "Photographic Notes"] Appendix A,  page 259 ''Lights & Shades of Hill Life in the Afghan and Hindu Highlands of the Punjab, a Contrast''  by F St J Gore 1895 Archive.org. With photographs by the author.
*[https://archive.org/details/lastempirephotog0000unse/page/n5 ''The Last Empire : photography in British India, 1855-1911'']. Texts by  Ainslie Thomas Embree and  Clark Worswick.  1976  Archive.org Lending Library. "Accompanies an exhibition organized by the Asia House Gallery of the Asia Society [London?] for the summer of 1976."
*[http://pahar.in/pahar/2002-from-kashmir-to-kabul-the-photographs-of-john-burke-and-william-baker-1860-1900-by-khan-pdf/  ''From Kashmir to Kabul: The photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900''] by Omar Khan 2002. Download from Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). Includes chapters about  [[Peshawar]], [[Murree]], [[Kashmir]], the [[2nd Afghan War| Second Afghan War]],  [[Lahore]].


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See also, Artist.

Photographers in India include John Edward Saché (studios in towns across northern India); G.K. Vale, Bangalore; R.B. Holmes of Peshawar; D.J. Divechia of Rawalpindi; Guerra & Sons, Mhow, Central India; Herzog and Higgins of Mhow, Raja Deen Dayal etc.[1]

Photographer William D. Holmes was the brother in law of John Edward Sache, one of the most prominent 19th century European photographers in India. Holmes joined Sache in Lucknow in 1877 and founded a studio in his own name in 1889.

FIBIS resources

  • Wendy Pratt, "Life with Tea in India: the diaries of Samuel Cleland Davidson" FIBIS Journal No 24 (Autumn 2010), pages 36-46. For details of how to access this article, see FIBIS Journals. Samuel Cleland Davidson was a tea planter who was a keen amateur photographer. An example of his work is "On parade"


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Recommended Reading

  • In Pursuit of the Past by FIBIS member Christopher Penn about Albert Thomas Watson Penn, one of the pioneering photographers of South India, who established his business at Ootacamund. Read the article "In pursuit of the past" The Hindu Metro Plus Coimbatore November 29, 2004, and the article Chasing the photographer, also from The Hindu (Chennai Metro Plus 4 May 2009). (This book has been favourably reviewed in FIBIS Journal no 21)
The Nicholas Brothers and A. T. W. Penn: Photographers of South India 1855 – 1885 by Christopher Penn (2014). Review by Richard Morgan – page 51 FIBIS Journal Number 33 (Spring 2015). the Nicholas Brothers were John and James Perratt Nicholas. A further review from "British photographic history" also mentions Dr Alexander Hunter, Linnaeus Tripe, John Parting, Edmund David Lyon, Willoughby Wallace Hooper and Samuel Bourne, in the Madras region.
  • Early Photographs of Ladakh, edited with an introduction by Hugh Rayner, published 2013. This book has been reviewed by Robert Charnock in FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013), page 46

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Bourne & Shepherd : Figures In Time An exhibition sourced from the photographic collection of MAP (Museum of Art & Photography, Bangalore) tasveerarts.com. Photographs from the exhibition 7 May 2016 bbc.com. Article by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri May 31, 2016. Scroll.in. "The Oldest Functional Photo Studio In the World Shuts Down In Kolkata After 176 Years" by Rakhi Bose Jun 17, 2016. scoopwhoop.com.
"Castles in the Air: Experiences and Journeys in Unknown Bhutan" by David Braun September 21, 2014 National Geographic, now an archived webpage. Article and photographs of Bhutan by John Claude White republished from the April 1914 issue of National Geographic Magazine
Sikhim & Bhutan, twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908 by John Claude White. 1909 Archive.org
  • Wiele & Klein, Madras and Ootacamund
    • Wiele & Klein Studio Advertisement A Trade advertisement for the Madras and Ootacamund studio of Wiele & Klein, "Artists, Photographers and Photo Engravers" britishphotohistory.ning.com
    • "The German Photographers of Madras" by Gabrielle Landwehr Part 1 , Part 2 (scroll down) Madras Musings Volume XVIII No. 14, November 1-15, 2008 and No. 15, November 16-30, 2008
    • Madras on glass 9 July 2003 The Hindu
  • The Williamson Photographic Collection is housed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge Yale (USA). Frederick Williamson was a British Political Officer stationed in Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tibet in the 1930s who was an ardent photographer. Williamson's 16mm films from the 1930s may be viewed online.

Historical books online

References

  1. Feltham, John A New Book about early photographers in India Rootsweb India- British-Raj Mailing List 10 Jun 2012, archived and Feltham, John et al. Photographers Rootsweb India- British-Raj Mailing List 11 Jun 2012 et al., archived.