Home and Empire: Photographs of British Families in the Lucknow Album, 1856–57

Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 243-260

  Blunt, Alison ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34548456919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781003268260-14     Document Type: Chapter

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