Title from first plate: Bengal troops on the line of March. (The advanced guard driving in on an out post of the enemy.) A sketch by an officer in that army. Drawn on zinc & printed by Day and Haghe, liths. to the King., Also published as a panoramic roll., All housed in blue cloth case: 60 x 43 cm. With paper label on front cover: Ludlow. Bengal troops on the line of march [1835]., and Incomplete: lacking first plate (title page). Numbered in ms. in upper right corner. On verso of plate 1: illegible signature W.A. [...]ittenis. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Day and Haghe's Zincy
Subject (Geographic):
Bengal (India), India, and Bengal.
Subject (Name):
East India Company. Army
Subject (Topic):
Armed Forces, Hindus, Artillery (Troops), Indian, Campaigns & battles, Horse artillery, Military camps, Camels, Cattle, Elephants, and Hindu temples
Title from first plate: Bengal troops on the line of March. (The advanced guard driving in on an out post of the enemy.) A sketch by an officer in that army. Drawn on zinc & printed by Day and Haghe, liths. to the King., Also published as a panoramic roll., All housed in blue cloth case: 60 x 43 cm. With paper label on front cover: Ludlow. Bengal troops on the line of march [1835]., and Incomplete: lacking first plate (title page). Numbered in ms. in upper right corner. On verso of plate 1: illegible signature W.A. [...]ittenis. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Day and Haghe's Zincy
Subject (Geographic):
Bengal (India), India, and Bengal.
Subject (Name):
East India Company. Army
Subject (Topic):
Armed Forces, Hindus, Artillery (Troops), Indian, Campaigns & battles, Horse artillery, Military camps, Camels, Cattle, Elephants, and Hindu temples
Title from first plate: Bengal troops on the line of March. (The advanced guard driving in on an out post of the enemy.) A sketch by an officer in that army. Drawn on zinc & printed by Day and Haghe, liths. to the King., Also published as a panoramic roll., All housed in blue cloth case: 60 x 43 cm. With paper label on front cover: Ludlow. Bengal troops on the line of march [1835]., and Incomplete: lacking first plate (title page). Numbered in ms. in upper right corner. On verso of plate 1: illegible signature W.A. [...]ittenis. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Day and Haghe's Zincy
Subject (Geographic):
Bengal (India), India, and Bengal.
Subject (Name):
East India Company. Army
Subject (Topic):
Armed Forces, Hindus, Artillery (Troops), Indian, Campaigns & battles, Horse artillery, Military camps, Camels, Cattle, Elephants, and Hindu temples
"Les Capucins francais aux Indes. La Mission du Sacré-Coeur au Rajputana [Rajasthan]. Un Bhil en grande tenue ; son pickhauri (manteau de cérémonie) sur les épaules ; sur la tête, son pagri ; à la ceinture, son kandoro ; à la main, son lathi." A Bhil boy in full uniform. His pickhauri, or ceremonial coat is over his shoulders . His pagri is on his head, kandoro is on his waist, and lathi is in his hand. Additional information on the back directs monetary offerings to Paris, France.
Subject (Geographic):
India
Subject (Topic):
Customs and traditions; Indigenous populations; War
"Les Capucins francais aux Indes (5e Série). La Mission du Sacré Coeur au Rajputana [Rajasthan]. 1. - Une famille Bhil : la femme porte des bracelets aux bras et aux jambes, un anneau au nez." A Bhil family poses for the camera. It consists of a mother, father, and child. The woman has many bracelets on her arms and legs and a nose ring. Additional information on the back directs monetary offerings to Paris, France.
"13. - Indes. - Ganapali, le Dieu ventru à tête d'éléphant - Missions des PP. Jésuites au Maduré." Three boys and a man sit around a statue of a god with a large belly and an elephant head. Additional information on the back directs donations to Paris and Lyon, France.
"Les Capucins francais aux Indes (4e Série). La Mission du Sacré Coeur au Rajputana [Rajasthan]. 6. Des scouts à l'exercise dans la cour du collège - A droite : l'abside de la cathédrale." Boys prepare to do exercises with guns in the yard outside a building with a missionary. The apse of a cathedral is slightly visible to the right. Additional information on the back directs monetary offerings to Paris, France. There is a handwritten note on the back of this postcard.
"Indes. - 5. Nos Frères Coadjuteurs. Vaillant et souriant, le Frère de Bisanti quitte sa tente pour sa toilette matinale. Comme toujours, la journée va être chargée." Brother Bisanti leaves the tent in order to wash at the wash basin in the morning. This postcard was printed in Lyon, France.
