Portrait of Raja Deen Dayal
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 86-19
name: label: Names
content: Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905
culture: label: Culture
content: East Indians
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Raja Deen Dayal (1844-1905, also known as Raja Din Diyal or Lala Deen Dayal), was a professional photographer in India. In 1868, he established the Lala Deen Dayal & Sons studio, which specialized in images of Indian temples and palaces. He later established additional studios in Secunderabad, Mumbai (previously Bombay), Indore, and Hyderabad. In 1884, he became official court photographer to Mahbub Ali Khan, sixth nizam of Hyderabad. Deen Dayal received the title "Raja" in 1894 and Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria in 1897.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Copy print
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Mrs. Hemlata Jain, Dayal's granddaughter or great granddaughter and owner of the Dayal studio, through Suddha Gallagher, 1984.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.86-19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Studio portraits
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Studio portraits
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Original retained by Mrs. Hemlata Jain.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Studio portrait of Lala Deen Dayal.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Deen Dayal exhibit brochures were also donated with this collection and have been relocated to the National Anthropological Archives Reference Files.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs by Raja Deen Dayal can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97 and Photo Lot 82-44.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs by Deen Dayal can be found in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives in A1989.1.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Alkazi collection in Delhi and British Library also hold photographs by Deen Dayal.