Catherine Glynn Benkaim Collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2006.02
name: label: Collector
content: Benkaim, Catherine Glynn
label: Photographer
content: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
label: Photographer
content: Murray, Colin Roderick, 1840-1884
label: Photographer
content: Johnson, William
label: Photographer
content: Henderson, William
label: Creator
content: Bourne and Shepherd
place: label: Place
content: India
creator: label: Collector
content: Benkaim, Catherine Glynn
label: Photographer
content: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912
label: Photographer
content: Murray, Colin Roderick, 1840-1884
label: Photographer
content: Johnson, William
label: Photographer
content: Henderson, William
label: Creator
content: Bourne and Shepherd
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim is a trustee of the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has a master's degree in Asian art history from U.C.L.A,. as well as a doctorate in Indian art history from the University of Southern California.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Samuel Bourne's photographic career in India, which spanned only seven years before his departure in 1870, began with his arrival in Calcutta in 1863. In Simla, he formed a partnership with two established photographers, Howard (likely William Howard) and Charles Shepherd. Howard soon left, and within a few years, Bourne & Shepherd had become the most successful firm in the subcontinent, opening additional studios in Calcutta (1867) and Bombay (1870). Colin Murray (d. 1884) became the main photographer of Bourne & Shepherd in 1870.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Johnson had a daguerrotype studio in Bombay circa 1852-1854 and a photographic studio circa 1854-1860. In partnership with William Henderson, Johnson produced the "Indian Amateur's Photographic Album" (1856-1858).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Albumen prints (black and white)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1850-1880
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim, 2006.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2006.02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Organized in one box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Seven 19th-century albumen photographs taken by Samuel Bourne, Colin Murray and unknown photographers (possibly William Johnson and William Henderson). The photographs depict various scenes and people of India, including a portrait of a hunting party in Nepal, images of the Queen Victoria Monument in Bombay and views of Dal Lake, Calcutta and Kutb Minar.