folio (325 x 210mm,), 25 photographs, comprising 2 salted paper prints (one portrait and one view), 22 albumen prints, and one Cabinet Card, some with contemporary manuscript captions and names, mounted on album pages recto and verso, along with numerous newspaper cuttings, letters, manuscript notes including a long copy of a letter sent from Delhi in 1858 about life and the situation there, ephemera and occasional medicinal and household receipts (circa 1866-1902) (some fading, one or two images damaged), contemporary maroon half roan (rather rubbed, some repairs)

This album appears to have been compiled by Maria Kemp (circa 1825-1919), daughter of General George Rees Kemp (1780-1861), who married Lt.-Colonel Andrew Macqueen in Barrackpore in 1850.

The photographs include ‘A Delhi Picnic, Entertainment given by Bachelors of Delhi to Residents & visitors’ (circa 1868) photographed by [John Christian Andrew] ‘Dannenberg of Mussoorie’; three portraits of British Indian army officers (one a salt print); 10 views in and around Fyzabad (Faizabad) in Oudh, northern India; a portrait of four native Indians, including a Sepoy (circa 1860); ‘Grand Durbar held at Lahore on 18th January 1862 by Sir Robert Montgomery G.C.B.’; ‘Sepoy encampment’; ‘Riding Camels with Rajpoots’; Mrs W. Tucker and first born’; ‘Entrance into Lahore Fort, July 1864’; and ‘Our Hydrabad House, near Lucknow, Oude A.D. 1859’ (image torn).