Sir Malcolm Hailey photograph album of the Sarda Canal, 1928

Name:

Moona Lal & Sons, Photographers

Timespan:

British occupation, 1765-1947; 20th century

Date:

1928

Description:

This collection is composed of one album containing twenty-six original mounted photographs, twenty-one of them measuring 9" x 11;" five of them folding panoramas, approximately double-sized. A few of the images are slightly faded, but in general very good. The album itself is in the original full grey leather with the title of the album embedded in silver to the upper board, together with presentation plate and engraved silver corners, a little rubbed at the extremities, but with attractive engravings. None of the photographs are captioned. The images record the Sarda Canal as the work was being completed. Most images feature the physical infrastructure of the canal and Indian workers, performing manual labor. Some images include train cars and boats which may have made the work somewhat less arduous. In many photographs, the engineering, the stonework and the piping is shown in detail. One image shows an Englishman (possibly Sir Malcolm Hailey) sitting with two English women and three Indian men. Overall, the photographs show the enormous scale of the project in both geography and human resources.

Language:

English

Provenance:

Sold by Glenn Mitchell, 2002.

Relation:

Finding aid: https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.MS.COLL.1146; The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366323

Subject:

Hailey, William Malcolm Hailey, Baron, 1872-1969; Water resources development -- India -- Uttar Pradesh; History; Canals; Water resources development; Canals -- India -- Uttar Pradesh; Colonies

Form/Genre:

photograph albums; photographs

Physical Description:

1 volume (.08 linear foot)

Geographic Subject:

Sarda Canal; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century; Great Britain; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Photographs; India; India -- Uttar Pradesh

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

This album is a presentation photograph album given to Sir Malcolm Hailey, later 1st Baron Hailey, by Moona Lal and Sons, photographers. Hailey was governor of the Punjab from 1924 to 1928 and of the United Provinces from 1928 to 1930. The album commemorates the completion of the first stages of the works on the Sarda Canal, United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) which was formally opened on December 11, 1928, by Sir Malcolm Hailey, Governor of the United Provinces. The Sarda Canal system linked over 4,000 miles of canals and distributaries, commanding an area of over 7,000,000 acres, the largest capital works in the British Empire at that date.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 1146

Collection:

Rosengarten Family Fund