Willoughby Wallace Hooper Photograph of Grasscutters in India
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A1998.04
name: label: Creator
content: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace, 1837-1912
place: label: Place
content: India
topic: label: Topic
content: East Indians
creator: label: Creator
content: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace, 1837-1912
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hooper was an English army officer who spent over 40 years in India. Early in his career, he became known for being an avid and accomplished amateur photographer. As a result, in 1862 Hooper was transferred to the 4th Cavalry where he worked almost exclusively on acquiring portraits of the people of Central India. These portraits were undertaken as part of the India Office's efforts to assemble a vast database of visual information and descriptive texts on the complex society of colonial India. This database would eventually be published as a monumental eight-volume catalog entitled "The People of India: a Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan." Hooper was also known for his photographs of the Madras Famine of 1876-1878 and the Third Burmese War.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Print (albumen, image 19 x 31 cm., mounted 40 x 51 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1870-1904
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchase, 1998.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1998.04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Oversized file folder in one flat box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of one item: Albumen print by Col. Willoughby Wallace Hooper, depicting a family of grass cutters in Indian, circa 1870s.