"Perils of Dawk Traveling in India," from the Illustrated London News, 1858; click on either image for a very large scan

Source: Bought on ebay and scanned by FWP, Jan. 2008

"My gharry preparing to start," from William Howard Russell, 'My Diary in India', vol. 1, 1860

Source: ebay, Jan. 2007

*"Interior of my tent, High Ground, Bangalore," a watercolor by Harold Esdale Malet, 1863-68* (BL)

British colonial life in all its complexity, c.1877

Source: Mrs. Julia A Stone, 'Illustrated India: its Princes and People' (Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1877); scans by FWP

"Life in Southern India: 1) Going to a jungle picnic: a short cut down the nullah; 2) An evening canoeing on a Travancore River," from the Illustrated London News, c.1877

Source: ebay, Sept. 2004

"Chopaya," a wood engraving, 1878

Source: ebay, July 2005

"From the original source:

When our chopaya arrived before the bungalow, absolutely the vehicle did not look amiss; and with its body painted sky blue and ornamented with flowers and grotesque divinities, and its little sculptured columns, it would not be out of place in a museum.  Its team of large white oxen, harnessed with red cloths, also gave it a vague resemblance to the chariot which, according to the legend, carried our rois faineants over the streets of Paris; but let me confess that, quite insensible to all its picturesque exterior, we busied ourselves principally in arranging the interior, and padding it comfortably.  The body of the carriage eight feet in length, and about five in width, was figuratively divided into two parts, the hinder section, stuffed with mattresses and cushions, forming a vast bed, on which we should be able to sleep comfortably enough.  This was the bedroom; while the fore part, in which were placed a table firmly strapped, our guns and instruments, and two straw easy-chairs, with a sea-lantern hanging from the roof, formed the sitting-room. These preparations occupied the whole of the day; and, as we intended travelling night and day without stopping, we got into our chopaya at nightfall and left Sipri."

An engraving from 'India and its Native Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878; also *"Our caravan, Rajasthan"*; also *"Our encampment at Rajpoor"*; also *"Our Gwalior escort"*; also *"The Rajah of Bunera visiting the travellers"*

Source: ebay, June 2007

"Shooting alligators on the way home from a picnic," from The Graphic, 1879

Source: ebay, Mar. 2006

"Rooms in my bungalow, Sitapur," a photo from the 1880's; *another view of the same rooms*; *"Grounds of bungalow, Sitapur"*; *"Grounds of Col. Horsford's bungalow, Sitapur"*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2007

"Incidents in a Young Civilian's First Year in India," from the Illustrated London News, 1888; very large scans of this engraving from my own collection: *upper half*; *lower half*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2004

*"My sitting room, Gorakhpur 1893"*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2008

*In a coach drawn by four horses; a photo from the 1890's*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2007