Sanawar Church and girl's school, from the road
name: label: Photographer
content: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
place: label: Place
content: Sanawar
creator: label: Photographer
content: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
setName: label: See more items in
content: Still Prints of Asia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Lawrence School, in Sanawar, Solan, Himachal Pradesh,
India, was founded in 1847 by British military officer and administrator Henry Lawrence; it continues to operate under the same name as of 2023. The school was founded for British military orphans to live and learn in a safe environment. It is one of the earliest co-ed boarding schools in the world. After India gained independence in 1949, the school came under jurisdiction of the Indian Ministry of Education. 

For information on Samuel Bourne, see A1999.1_4
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Albumen print (image 23 x 29 cm., mounted 31 x 40 cm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1860s
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 5, Item 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1999.01, Item FSA.A1999.01_22
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints -- 1860-1880
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One albumen print of the church and girls' dormitory at the Lawrence School in Sanawar, circa 1860s. The buildings are upon a hill. View from below with a few Indian women to the right. Signed "Bourne 1135" in the lower left corner of the image.