"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)



*"A Village near Simla," from vol. 3 of 'The Indian empire' by Robert Montgomery Martin, c.1860*

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



*"Sketches from India--an afternoon in the Himalayas," from The Graphic, 1880*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2010

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


*The Mall, Simla, 1890's*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2007


*A bazaar scene in Simla, gelatin photo, 1890's*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2007



*A Simla room (maybe a sitting area in a lodging house?), in a photo from 1890*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2010

An overview photo from c.1900

Source: ebay, Dec. 2006


*"South front of Viceregal Lodge, Palace of the Viceroy, at Simla the summer capital of India," c.1903* (BL)


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



*"Murree, in the Punjaub," from the Illustrated London News, 1869*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2012


 
*"The new hill station of Ranee Khet, North-West Provinces," from the Illustrated London News, 1875*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2009


*Dalhousie, a photo c.1870's*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2009

*"Band Stand, The Mall, Darjeeling," a photo by Bourne, c.1870's*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2010


*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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