India & Egypt
Subtitle: 1927-28
Published: 1927
Language: eng
Other titles: India and Egypt :
Notes: 48 photos mounted (pasted down), of which seven appear to be photo postcards. The photos are generally mounted two to a page, on both sides of the twelve album leaves (one is mounted inside the back cover. Almost all photos are in the general range of 11 x 8cm.; a couple are quite a bit smaller and one is quite a bit larger (21 x 16cm.). Photos clear with very good detail but without much flair -- mostly standard sights competently taken without anything personal in the images. No captions. Oblong album with slender paper-covered boards (25 x 20cm.). 30 photos relate to India and the last 13 to Egypt. The remaining five are uncertain as to country -- two, including the largest photo in the album, are of an unidentified outdoor bar and another is of a couple of buildings, one of which is English Tudor-style and the other has a sign which appears to say Wallace Flour Mills. The first seven photos in the album are of the dedication ceremonies for the "Gateway on India" in Bombay [now Mumbai]. Some of the other Indian photos show other famous buildings, such as the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort; three show a train engine and the exterior of a passenger car on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Almost all of the Egyptian photos show mosques, pyramids and/or the Sphinx.