The New America And The Far East, India, G. Waldo Browne

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Rare Antique Photo Book!




Illustrated with Photogravure, Colored Plate, Engravings, Map




Presented to you at this auction is a wonderful old book richly illustrated with 119 RARE vintage photographs and illustrations from the early 1900's ! You will take a journey with the author G. Waldo Browne and view many historical, cultural, and incredible photographs of a time forgotten. Writing about his travels, G. Waldo Browne gave his readers detailed stories and interesting information about the local history, myths, and facts of the countries he visited so that every American could get a glimpse, first hand of the worlds beyond our shores.



Contents

India, Professor Albert Bushnell Hart
From Mountain To Sea
The Gateway Of India
The Whirlwind Of War
The Light Of The Harem
A Trinity Of Races
India's "Sons Of Liberty"
Indian Chivalry
The East India Companies
The Anglo-Saxon Conquest
The Passage Of Power
Resource And Reality
Flora, Fauna And Famine
The Wrath Of The Goddess Kali
The Many Capitals
Simla, Darjiling, Indian Farms And The Deccan
Storied Golconda
From Throne To Threshold
Last But Not Least


Full Page Engravings

(Colored plates have a tissue page separation)

The King Of The Jungle
A Bull Cut Out Of Solid Rock, Mysore
Religious Shrines On And In The Solid Rock
Prisoners At Dinner, Bassein Jail, Burma
Ruins Of Ferrah Bag, An Ancient Mohammedan Castle In Ahmadnager
Taj Mahal, Marble Mausoleum Near Agra, India. Colored
Banyan Tree On Compound, Ramapatam
An Interesting Panorama
Golden Lily Tank, Madura
Fort At Sholapur, Showing Double Walls And Ditch Of Water
Remarkable Carvings In Living Rock
Toddy Man Drawing Toddy
Religious Fete
Tree Ferns In Garden Of The Shrubbery, Darjiling, India. Colored
Golden Lily Tank
Teppakulum, Madura
Native Musicians
Munachee Temple, Madura
Golden Flag-Staff, Madura
Caves Cut In Solid Rock
Elephants In Great Durbar, India. Colored
An Example Of Indian Art As Shown In Stone Carvings
Modern Temple In Madura
An Indian Girl Burden Bearer
Sisel Hemp Plant, Sirur, Poona District
Main Canal Of Bezwada (South India)
Rickla And Push Conveyance
Famine Sufferers, Madras


Colored Map

India


Illustrations

Indian Women Carrying Water From Well
Lahore, Moslems Washing Before Worship
Cape Comorin
Karen Village On The Irrawaddy River
Unsurmountable Cliff
A Cooley Woman, Darjiling
The Village Guardian
Interior Of Idol Maker's House
Fording A River
Row Of Shrines About Kuthodaw, Pagoda
Boat-Building At Pakokku
Clay Images, South India
Benares, South India
Date Palms On Compound, Ramapatam
Small Hindu Temple Under Rock At Vinukonda
A Bridge In Madura
Gifts Arriving At Palami Temple
Banyan Tree Overgrowing Hindu Idol House
Siva's Hill, Palami
Ooty Lake, Ootacamund
Sudras With Village Magistrate In The Centre
Yanadhi Huts And People, Ramapatam
Scene During Rainy Season In Rangoon
Yanadhi Huts, Ramapatam
Ferry Across Buckingham Canal
Peculiar Method Of Carrying Baby, South India
An Oil Mill
A Group Of Sudras, Podili
Making Oil From Peanuts
Railway Station, Madura
Cocoanut Palms, Madura District
Mail Train, Madura
Brick Making, Madura
Native Houses On The Mountain, Madura
Market In The Nilgiri Hills, 8000 Feet Above Sea-Level
Bullock Coach, Kanigiri
Girls' High School Room
View Of Royal Lake, From Dalhousie Park, Rangoon
Hindu Children Picking Cotton
Madura Mission, Boys At Industrial Work
Karen Mission School Football Team
Boys Harvesting Rice, Pasumalai
Famine Children Fed On "Prickly Pears"
Fishing For Minnows
Dalhousie Park, Rangoon
Small Pagodas At Base Of Shive Dagon
The Thousand Pillared Temple, Hanamakonda
Travancore Breakwater
A Hindu Sannyasi Lying On A Thin Cord As A Penance. Passers-By Throw Alms On The Cloth Underneath Him
An Ear Operation; Cutting And Rejoining Lobe That Has Been Stretched By Heavy Earrings
Ruins Of The Thousand Pillared Temple
Palace Arches, Madura
Drill In The Playground
Village Laundry, Madura District
View Of Queens' Garden, Rangoon
Pond On Compound, Ramapatam
Tennis As Played In India By Natives
Floating-Car Festival
Tea Gardens, Nilgiri Hills
Earthen Pots From Pottery To Market
Threshing Floor
Rice, Indian Staff Of Life
Christian College, Madras
Buffaloes
Public Gardens At Ootacamund
Julca In Madras
Ploughing With Water-Buffaloes
Ploughing, Ramapatam
Hindu Boys Hoeing
Irrigation Works, Pasumalai
Tree Fern, Ootacamund

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