Black and white photograph

Museum number:
13-7032
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
Black and white photographic print. Bikaner State, Northern India. Indian soldiers, mounted on camels, some with carts. Label attached reads: "WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE: PHOTO COPYRIGHTED BY PAUL L. HOEFLER, BK 66. ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS CAMEL CORPS, BIKANER, INDIA. Scene during the annual review at Bikaner when 640 camels paraded in military formation before Lieut. General His Highness The Maharajah of Bikaner and his miliatray staff. This India prince maintains one of the best trained and finest equipped independent armies in India. The Bikaner Camel Corps is famed throughout the world, having seen service in China, Palestine and Egypt. The Camel Battery here shown, under command of major Jai Du Singh, is particularly efficient. FOR RELEASE DECEMBER 17th, 1933.
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
ca. 1930
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Comment:
Related catalogue number: 15-30412 Black and white print, made from this negative, has the same number as the negative.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Black and white photograph, accession number 13-7032, described as Black and white photographic print. Bikaner State, Northern India. Indian soldiers, mounted on camels, some with carts. Label attached reads: "WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE: PHOTO COPYRIGHTED BY PAUL L. HOEFLER, BK 66. ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS CAMEL CORPS, BIKANER, INDIA. Scene during the annual review at Bikaner when 640 camels paraded in military formation before Lieut. General His Highness The Maharajah of Bikaner and his miliatray staff. This India prince maintains one of the best trained and finest equipped independent armies in India. The Bikaner Camel Corps is famed throughout the world, having seen service in China, Palestine and Egypt. The Camel Battery here shown, under command of major Jai Du Singh, is particularly efficient. FOR RELEASE DECEMBER 17th, 1933.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Black and white photograph, accession number 13-7032, described as Black and white photographic print. Bikaner State, Northern India. Indian soldiers, mounted on camels, some with carts. Label attached reads: "WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE: PHOTO COPYRIGHTED BY PAUL L. HOEFLER, BK 66. ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS CAMEL CORPS, BIKANER, INDIA. Scene during the annual review at Bikaner when 640 camels paraded in military formation before Lieut. General His Highness The Maharajah of Bikaner and his miliatray staff. This India prince maintains one of the best trained and finest equipped independent armies in India. The Bikaner Camel Corps is famed throughout the world, having seen service in China, Palestine and Egypt. The Camel Battery here shown, under command of major Jai Du Singh, is particularly efficient. FOR RELEASE DECEMBER 17th, 1933.

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