India--William Willoughby Hooper, Samuel Bourne, and others

Folio (435 x 295mm.), 32 albumen prints (from 100 x 175mm. to 290 x 240mm.), mounted on thick paper (one loosely inserted), some in pairs, recto only, many captioned in pencil on the mount, contemporary dark green half roan over green cloth boards, some fading, binding somewhat worn

This album may have been compiled by Captain George Northmore Arthur Pollard R.N. (1847-1920) who served for some years on the Indian troop ship HMS Malabar.

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This album includes 11 studies of Indian trades and life taken in the 1870s by W.W. Hooper comprising: 'Master's early tea, 5.30am', 'Master's room and servants', 'cooks making curry', 'serving up the dinner; the leg of mutton taken off [the spit] by the cook's toe', 'Barber', 'Washerman', 'Housekeepers', 'Blacksmiths', 'Carpenters', Woodmen', and Gardeners'; 12 views by Bourne of Ootacamund and the Nilgiri Hills, and one of Bombay, together with 5 other images in India (one annotated on the reverse 'Pollard'), and 4 views of Suez by H. Arnoux.