Some 178 negatives of old British Raj photographs were recently discovered in a Peter Lord shoe box by archivists in Edinburgh, some of them as much as a hundred years old. What’s interesting is that the identity of the photographer and the exact time period of the events in the photographs are unknown, though some of them were confirmed by archivists to be from the 1912 Calcutta visit of King George V and Queen Mary.

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, a public archive maintained by the Scottish government, has made them available to the world to look for the identity of the photographer. If anybody has further information about the photographs that can help the archive locate their origins, they can contact clare.sorensen@rcahms.gov.uk and help them get a better idea of what life was like in British controlled India.

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