CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL SUBJECTS INDIA, BURMA AND CHINA

Album 11 contains: scenes outside Delhi showing Indian women drawing water from a well, scenes at Ambala Railway Station including: passengers waiting for trains, views of the booking hall, views of a fruit stall outside the luggage office; scenes in Simla including: street scenes, government buildings, views across the mountains and portraits of Tibetan traders; Scenes showing British and US Soldiers at the Viceregal Lodge, Simla showing Lord and Lady Wavell talking to soldiers. Individuals pictured include: Miss Felicity Wavell, Captain Astley, Major Coates, Major Archie Wavell, Hon Mrs Humphreys, Private Beu L. Jackson, Corporal Angelo Consolo, Sgt John D. Russell, Mrs de Bathe and General Sir Claude Auchinleck; portraits of the Bengali poet Bushnu Dey with his wife and daughters; scenes in a Bengali village including street scenes, market scenes and villagers carrying fruit; country and village scenes outside Delhi, some showing temple ruins; portraits of General Sir Claude Auchinleck; scenes in Hengshan in Hunan Province including street scenes, views of boats on the banks of the river, Chinese soldiers and fisher boys selling shellfish; portraits of Bengali villagers driving cattle, at a well and outside a temple; scenes showing the irrigation of agricultural land surrounding a Bengal village; views of Jain Temple, Calcutta; portraits of Major John Irwin, A.D.C. to the Viceroy; scenes showing Bengali farm workers ploughing with bullocks; scenes in the Mathematical Instrument Office, Calcutta, including: workers polishing optical components and assembling prismatic binoculars.