"Simla,"
by
David Roberts, 1845
Source: ebay, Aug. 2009
*View of Simla, with Christ Church in the middle distance; a watercolor by Henry Poulton, 1855* (BL)
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/indianempirehist03martuoft
(downloaded Jan. 2009)
*"Simla, 1863," a photograph from the Margaret Harker collection, possibly by Samuel Bourne*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2006
*"Simla in winter, a photo by Bourne, c.1860's*
Source: ebay, May 2008
*An overview drawing from a book by Bickers and Son, London, 1878*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
The Mall, an albumen photo, c.1880's; *another view*; *a view of the Viceregal Lodge*
Source: ebay, June 2008
Simla in the 1890's: albumen photos from an album belonging to a British officer, John Mitchell Holms: *photo 1* -- *photo 2* -- *photo 3* -- *photo 4* -- *photo 5* -- *photo 6* -- *photo 7* -- *photo 8* -- *photo 9* -- *photo 10* -- *photo 11* -- *photo 12* -- *photo 13*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2005
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
*A bazaar scene in Simla, gelatin photo, 1890's*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
An overview photo from c.1900
Source: ebay, Dec. 2006
Christ Church as it looks nowadays
Source:
http://tblogs.bootsnall.com/mark/archives/images/P1010098.JPG
(downloaded July 2005)
The Governor's Palace, Simla (nowadays often "Shimla")
Source:
http://www-gmm.insa-toulouse.fr/~montagut/Inde/big/0010-plais-gouverneur-shimla.jpg
(downloaded July 2005)
*A panoramic overview of built-up modern Simla*
Source: http://www.zimmt.de/indien.htm
(downloaded Apr. 2006)
St. Stephen's Church, Ootacamund; for those posted in the south, Ootacamund served as another such hot-weather refuge
Source:
http://www.indiamike.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/8718/cat/501
(downloaded Sept. 2005)
Behind Christ Church is the old British cemetery in Ootacamund
Source:
http://www.uni-greifswald.de/~histor/forschung/tod/St.%20Stephens%20Kirchhof%20Ooty.jpg
(downloaded July 2005)
Murree (near Islamabad), was founded in 1851; here it's shown in a postcard photo from the 1910's
Source: ebay, Aug. 2005
*"Road-making on the Murree Hills by the European party," from the Illustrated London News, 1863*
Source: ebay, Oct. 2005
*Nainital in the 1880's*; *another view*; *a third view*
Source: ebay, Oct. 2005
*"Naina Devi temple, Naini Tal," a postcard, 1906*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2007
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