Album of photographs relating mainly to pre 1857 Lucknow

Item date: 1858
Grant Value: 150
Item cost: not recorded
Item date acquired: 1975
Item institution: British Library, India Office Library
Town/City: London

360 salt prints, a unique set of views of British keybuildings in Lucknow and Delhi, many portraits of civilians, soldiers and their families, Indian princes and others living in Lucknow at the time of the Mutiny

Item Provenance
Presented by Sir Trevor Wheeler to WH Russell, The Times war correspondent. A portion of the album was presented to the India Office by Russells youngest daughter Mrs A Longfield in 1922