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Photographs and drawings
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150319050741/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/px2d10.jpg "An Artillery Elephant on Duty"], hand-coloured lithograph by Captain C. Gold; 1799 from [https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia] Louisiana State University, now archived webpages.
*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1956-08-6-17 An elephant pulling a field gun, 1858] Photograph by Felice Beato NAM. 1956-08-6-17. National Army Museum. Previously elsewhere identified as a Royal Artillery elephant battery at Lucknow<ref>''Victoria's Wars'', page 26 by Ian Frederick William Beckett 1998 previously available online on Google Books, now unavailable online.</ref>
*[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:234081/ Charcoal and watercolor drawing: "Indian elephant artillery battery, c. 1860"] by George Bryant Campion. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3907822106/in/photostream Drawing of "Peshawur Mountain train in the line of March 1877"], showing guns loaded on the elephants' backs. flickr.com
*[https://www.britishbattles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/16-Elephant-battery.jpg Drawing: Royal Artillery Elephant Battery: Battle of Charasiab] from [http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/charasiab.htm "The Battle of Charasiab"] 6th October 1879, [[2nd Afghan War]] (scroll down) Britishbattles.com
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