The Lucknow Album. Printed by G.H. Rouse
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A1997.02
label: General
content: Large 8vo., beveled edges, brown hexagon-grain cloth with gilt title on front cover, blind stamping on front and back. Imperfect; wanting the plan.
name: label: Creator
content: Rouse, G. H. (George Henry), 1838-1909
place: label: Place
content: Lucknow (India)
label: Place
content: India -- Uttar Pradesh -- Lucknow
creator: label: Creator
content: Rouse, G. H. (George Henry), 1838-1909
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: George Henry Rouse was an English Baptist missionary and Bible translator in India. Born in Suffolk, Rouse became a Baptist at the age of 16, completing his education at Stepney (now Regent's Park) College and London University. In 1861, he journeyed to Calcutta as a missionary for the Baptist Missionary Society, but ill health forced his return to England, where he took up a teaching position at Haverfordwest Baptist College from 1867-1872. He later returned to India as the secretary of the Baptist Indian Mission and the head of the Baptist Mission Press.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lucknow was the capital of the former state of Oudh (now spelt Awadh, and a region in the state of Uttar Pradesh), in India. The prolonged defense there by the British proved to be one of the key episodes in the unsuccessful Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume (50 leaves of tipped-in albumen prints, 58 p, 25 x 17 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Calcutta :, Baptist Mission Press,, 1874
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchased, May 1997.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1997.02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Books
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: One volume Stored in one box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints -- 1860-1880
label: Genre/Form
content: Books
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A published pictorial guide with illustrations of the city of Lucknow, India. In its ideal state, the volume contained 50 tipped-in albumen prints, accompanied by full textual descriptions of each scene depicted, along with a large-sized plan of the city executed by Parogha Ubbas Alli, Assistant Municipal Engineer, who may have been the photographer. Created in part as a memorial to the Garrison of Lucknow and survivors of the Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858 and dedicated to Sir George Couper, Chief Commissioner of Oudh.