CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL SUBJECTS INDIA

Album 12 contains: scenes in the Mathematical Instrument Office in Calcutta including workers adjusting aircraft gunsights; scenes showing British and US soldiers at the Viceregal Lodge in Simla including: Lord and Lady Wavell, Major Archie Wavell, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and Lord Euston, A.D.C. to Lord Wavell, talking to soldiers, scenes inside and outside the Leave Camp bar, the 'Elephant and Palm', Sgt Cecil Laird, Sgt Mahnken, Mrs de Bathe, Captain Fortune, Captain Astley and Major Coates, views inside the Viceregal Lodge of the galleries, the main hall and the dining room, members of the household going out on Viceregal rickshaws, scenes at the British Other Rank Leave Camp in the Viceregal Lodge grounds, showing men reading, playing draughts in the sitting room, in the dining room and a British gunner buying fruit outside the entrance; scenes in Simla including: street scenes, views of Tibetan stores and portraits of Tibetan warriors; scenes in a Bengali village including: crowds on the way to a religious feast, outside the temple, views of village huts, village street scenes, farming scenes showing villagers ploughing with bullocks, views of the surrounding country, portraits of Bengali children and villagers; views of Jain Temple in Calcutta including: views of worshippers entering and leaving the temple, views of tombs, self-portraits of Cecil Beaton in the temple; views of Indian villagers at a well near Delhi; portraits of Felicity Wavell on a swing in a village outside Delhi; portraits of post graduate science students at work in a laboratory at Calcutta University; scenes at the British Military Mission Headquarters in Pihu, China showing: officers attending a lecture, servants at work and Chinese surgeons.