Keywords: india asia whatsthatpicture public domain publicdomain photo border blackandwhite black and white Rather helpfully(!) from what I can make out this is captioned "Native character". I am assuming from the outfit that he's quite a significant figure. A comment has now identified that a further copy of this image is held in the George Eastman House collection (see link below). On their copy it is identified as "Mohamedan Gentleman" and attributed to T H McAllister / York & Son This is one of a selection of lantern slides dating I estimate to c. 1900. The set appears to be a personal collection, with items connected to Northern Ireland, missionary work, the YMCA, and India Rather helpfully(!) from what I can make out this is captioned "Native character". I am assuming from the outfit that he's quite a significant figure. A comment has now identified that a further copy of this image is held in the George Eastman House collection (see link below). On their copy it is identified as "Mohamedan Gentleman" and attributed to T H McAllister / York & Son This is one of a selection of lantern slides dating I estimate to c. 1900. The set appears to be a personal collection, with items connected to Northern Ireland, missionary work, the YMCA, and India Rather helpfully(!) from what I can make out this is captioned "Native character". I am assuming from the outfit that he's quite a significant figure.
A comment has now identified that a further copy of this image is held in the George Eastman House collection (see link below). On their copy it is identified as "Mohamedan Gentleman" and attributed to T H McAllister / York & Son
This is one of a selection of lantern slides dating I estimate to c. 1900. The set appears to be a personal collection, with items connected to Northern Ireland, missionary work, the YMCA, and India india asia publicdomain whatsthatpicture |