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Photographs, sketches, maps and plans of buildings and other features in India.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

• Unidentified location; 10.5 x 8.3 cm on 15.4 x 11.9 cm backing
• Unidentified location; 14.9 x 10.8 cm on 20.7 x 16.2 cm backing
• Unidentified location; 15.4 x 10.8 cm on 20.7 x 16.2 cm backing
• 'Waterhole at Durgah' endorsed in manuscript in pencil on backing; 7.9 x 10.2 cm on 12 x 15.2 cm backing
• Unidentified location; 15.6 x 10.8 cm on 20.7 x 16.1 cm backing
• Unidentified location; 15.3 x 10.9 cm on 20.7 x 16.1 cm backing
• Unidentified location; 8.3 x 10.8 cm on 7.4 x 15.1 cm first backing on 20.6 x 16.2 second backing
• Unidentified location; 15.4 x 10.9 cm on 20.7 x 16.1 cm backing
• Unidentified location; 15.5 x 10.7 cm on 20.8 x 16.2 cm backing
• 'Rural Water Supply Scheme Tube I Well 1911'; 15.3 x 10.9 cm on 20.7 x 16.2 cm backing
• Unidentified location; 15.2 x 10.7 cm on 20.7 x 16.2 cm backing
• Unidentified location; 15 x 10.9 cm on 20.6 x 16.3 cm backing

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Ribs of ceiling decorated with hanging urns.

'L. Chunni Lal & Sons, Muttra'

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• Perspective view of a garden, a female figure drawn in top margin; 20.2 x 17.7 cm
• Sketch of an idealised cityscape depicting a ruler's palace opposite a city at a river, a mosque with four minarets in the background to the left; 32 x 23.1 cm

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'Cities Exhibition No. 817 presented by Dr A[nanda] Coomaraswamy'
[Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Ceylon (Sri Lanka) born author and philosopher.]

• Shrine on a pedestal within an enclosure with grazing cows; 28.5 x 22.1 cm
• View across a tank or pond towards a temple; 27 x 21.3 cm
• Entrance into a temple with an adjacent tree; 28.9 x 22.3 cm
• Children and adults sitting on a veranda of a one storey house; 28.3 x 22.3 cm
• View along a populated village street; 29 x 21.6 cm
• View of a street with one storey vernacular buildings; 28.2 x 22.6 cm

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• One storey houses with steps between them leading to a tank or pond; 14.1 x 8.2 cm
• Steps leading to a pond or tank, vernacular houses in the background; 14 x 8.4 cm
• Wooden house; 14 x 8.2 cm
• Two identical temples at a tank or pond; 14 x 8.3 cm
• One storey house with a veranda; 14 x 8.3 cm

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• Rural street with one and two storey buildings; 15.1 x 10.8 cm
• Well, tree and a shrine on a raised platform in a village; 15 x 10.4 cm
• Street with one storey vernacular buildings; 15.2 x 10.6 cm

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• Unidentified structure supporting a horizontal disc; 11 x 15.7 cm
• Small scale temple or tomb among rocks; 15.8 x 11.2 cm
• [Item missing]
• Same temple or tomb as above, but showing entrance formed by massive stone slab; 11.2 x 15.5 cm
• Unidentified monument (pillar) supporting a pair of drums
• Unidentified monument supporting a fork-like structure; 11.2 x 16.1 cm
• Unidentified monument supporting a vertical disc; 11 x 15.8 cm
• Bird's eye view of the enclosed compound showing two of the above mentioned monuments in situ; 11 x 11 cm

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• One storey wooden building; 10.9 x 8.6 cm
• One storey building with roof work undertaken; 10.9 x 7.9 cm
• Several houses around a courtyard; 10.8 x 8.1 cm
• View of a square surrounded by three storey buildings; 10.8 x 8 cm
• View of fountain or monument on a market square; 8.3 x 11 cm
• Two storey houses in a street; 10.9 x 8.26 cm
• View of a group of one storey houses with raised gardens; 10.9 x 8.3 cm
• View of a vernacular building with murals painted on the façade; 10.9 x 7.8 cm
• A shrine amongst houses; 10.6 x 7.7 cm
• View along a street with two storey houses on both sides; 10.8 x 8.36 cm
• Two storey house on a raised platform; 10.69 x 8.3 cm
• A terrace of houses with arcades and a raised central pavilion; 10.6 x 8 cm
• A terrace of houses with thatched roofs; 10.4 x 7.9 cm
• One storey wooden building; 10. x 8.6 cm

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All titles in manuscript in ink by [Patrick Geddes] in bottom margins of photographs.

• One storey storage shelter with a carriage loaded with hay in the foreground; 14.4 x 8.2 cm
• One storey storage building; 14.1 x 8.2 cm
• One storey building; 14.1 x 8.3 cm

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