An Underwood & Underwood platform - Professor [James] Ricalton stereographing the great Durbar, Delhi, India – Historic Photograph Print
![An Underwood & Underwood platform - Professor [James] Ricalton stereographing the great Durbar, Delhi, India, c1903. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d4/d49ed7957ca7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of An Underwood & Underwood platform - Professor [James] Ricalton stereographing the great Durbar, Delhi, India. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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An Underwood & Underwood platform - Professor [James] Ricalton stereographing the great Durbar, Delhi, India
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In this stereograph, the photographer himself is the subject: Professor James Ricalton is shown at work on a platform built for Underwood & Underwood, the American firm that sold stereo views to a mass audience. The setting is the Great Durbar at Delhi, the ceremony of 1903 that proclaimed Edward VII as Emperor of India. The image records how the event was documented for armchair travelers, with the photographer's own equipment and position part of the scene. The record's dating and identifications come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Durbars--Delhi--1903; India--Delhi; PI; Photographers; BI; Ph. Ind.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,396 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141439 |
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