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Principal and Teachers of Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (recto); Middle Class Students and Staff, Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (verso)

c. 1882–87

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
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Culture
India
Medium
albumen print
Measurements
Image: 19.4 x 27 cm (7 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
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John L. Severance Fund 2023.121.23
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Raja Deen Dayal is regarded now, and was considered during his lifetime, to be India’s most important 19th-century photographer.

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These photographs are part of an album, now disassembled, of around 105 photographs taken in India between 1885 and summer 1887 that provide glimpses into the lives of the British colonial elite and royal and upper-class Indians. The museum holds another group of 37 pictures from this album (2016.266), which was probably commissioned by a British civil servant visiting or working in India around 1888 as a personal souvenir of his experiences there.
Two horizontally oriented photographs juxtaposed one atop the other depict groups with light skin tones on a large striped rug. In both, people pose before a stone building. The top photo features dozens of boys and men in dark suits against a vine-covered wall. In the lower photo, eight men in suits and academic robes gather before diamond-paned windows. Most look forward, including a seated man with a long, dark beard on the right.

Principal and Teachers of Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (recto); Middle Class Students and Staff, Bishop Cotton School, Shimla (verso)

c. 1882–87

Raja Deen Dayal

(Indian, 1844–1905)
India

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