Nye, Albert Frederick. Album

Title

Nye, Albert Frederick. Album

Description

15 items. Photographs of his service in India.

The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Lynn Corrigan and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan.

Date

2022-03-03

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Nye, AF

Collection Items

Buildings
Top left: Moore Market - Madras.
Top right: Greater Chennai Corporation Office - Ripon Building.
Centre: Central railway station Chennai.
Bottom left: Madras High Court - Chennai.

Government Botanical Gardens, Ooty
Top left: Bridge in a park.
Top right: Two men sat on steps with tropical plants, A F Nye (right).
Centre: Canon mounted on a gun carriage in front of tiled roofed cottages in the Italian garden in the Ooty government botanical gardens.
Bottom…

Views of town and buildings
Top left: Women carrying baskets on their heads.
Top right: Big Masjidh from Harewood Rd, Ooty.
Centre left: Edge of town in the Aravankad / Wellington with terrace hillside beyond.
Bottom left: Wellington Cantonment, Coonoor.

Additional…

General views
Top right: River in parkland with tropical trees. On reverse is stamped 'Zaidas Photographers Lahore, Allahabad, Ootacamund'.
Centre left: Plains from mountainside.
Centre middle: Mountains.
Centre right: Ooty golf course.

Additional…

Ooty and Tamil Nadu scenes
Top left: Buildings at foot of wooded hillside.
Top right: Ooty Lake.
Middle: Ooty Golf Course with a view to the west.

On the bottom left corner, two further photographs:
Top left: view of Ooty from the Government Botanical Gardens, with Ooty…

Forest views
Top left: looking down on plain from wooded hillside.
Top centre: Two men on a forested hillside.
Top right: Buildings at the foot of cleared, terraced hillside.
Bottom left: Two men in a wooded gully, A F Nye (right).
Bottom centre: Looking down…

Friends in rural setting
Top right: Three men in civilian clothes, A F Nye (right).
Centre: Building with veranda and bay windows.
Bottom left: Two men in civilian clothes, A F Nye (right).
Bottom right: Two men in civilian clothes.

Rural views
Top left: Plains from hillside.
Top right: Looking down on plain from mountainside.
Bottom right: Steam train crossing the Adderley viaduct on the Nilgiri Railway, approaching the tunnel.

Nilgiri Railway
Top left: Train with carriages crossing a rural scene.
Top right: Steam train in station at Ootacamund.
Centre left: Steam train passing through wooded valley.
Bottom left: Stream train with separate passenger carriages.
Bottom centre: Steam…

Personnel life
Top left: A F Nye astride a motorbike. On reverse, 'speed king MI*'.
Top right: Six men on a motorbike. On reverse, 'six men on a byke'.
Bottom left: Licensing star mounted on a building'. On reverse: 'What is it?'
Bottom right: Man standing…

Personnel
Top left: Serviceman with flying insignia. On reverse, 'Tod'.
Top centre: Man smoking pip, writing at a desk in barracks. On reverse, 'writing home'.
Bottom left: Man standing outside building denoted 12. On reverse, 'Les'.
Bottom centre: Gateway…

Servicemen's lives
Top left: man sat reading a newspaper. On reverse, 'Les Harris'.
Centre: Three servicemen sat outside a Nissen hut. On reverse. 'Three oppo's'.
Bottom left: Inside Nissen hut bar. On reverse: 'The transit mess'.
Bottom right: Man sat on wicker…

Servicemen and aircraft
Top left: group of six men, one with insignia drinking. On reverse. 'The boys and their booze'.
Centre: A F Nye in khaki. On the reverse, 'Overseas type'.
Bottom left: C-47s on airstrip. On reverse, 'Daks on the strip'.
Bottom right: Stinson L-5…

Rural scenes
Top left: Elephant with tusks grazing under a tree. On reverse, 'made in India'.
Top right: Goats. On reverse' 'goats at play'.
Centre: Herdsman and boy grazing goats on hillside.
Bottom right: Srirangapatna Fort. On reverse, 'Fort gate to Sri…

People
Top left: Man in a turban with a dressed monkey on a lead. On reverse, 'monkey man'.
Top right: man holding a metal tea urn and bucket. On reverse, 'char sahib'.
Centre: Man squatting by roadside having a drink. On reverse, 'lets have a…

People
Top left: Man collecting water with bullocks on a hillside. On reverse, 'getting water'.
Centre: Girl holding a baby on her hip in a field. Captioned 'What have you there son?'. On reverse, 'where is pop?'.

Market scenes
Top left: Boy selling fruit with a stall of photographs. On reverse, 'oranges or picture sahib?'.
Top right: Open air laundry. On reverse: 'Dhobie Ghat'.
Centre: Women and girls collecting water from a railway tender.
Bottom left: Women at a…

Transportation
Top left: Steam train on bridge crossing over a road.
Top right: Hay cart pulled by two bullocks.
Centre: Two sailing boats moored on a beach.
Bottom left: Wheeled carts with a bullock.
Bottom right: Hay cart with driver, pulled by a bullock.

Bangalore street scenes
A series of Bangalore street scenes taken around General Parade Ground and South Parade area.

Top left: Commercial street scene at Cavalry Rd (now Kamaraj Rd), Mysore, Bangalore.
Top right: South Parade (now MG Rd), Bangalore, close tot he…

Bangalore street scenes
Top left: Imperial Talkies cinema on Residency Road, Bangalore. On reverse, 'Imperial talkies Bangalore'.
Top right: St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore.
Centre: Market Square looking into HKP Road with Sunlight Soap advertisement. On reverse, 'Market…

Bangalore
Top left: Victory Chinese Restaurant.
Top right: Opera House on Brigade Rd, Bangalore. On reverse 'opera talkies Brigade Road Bangalore'.
Centre: St. Andrew's Church. On reverse, 'St Andrew's Church Bangalore'.
Bottom left: St. Mary's Basilica,…

Bangalore scenes
Top left: Commercial street scene with pedestrians.
Top right: Commercial Street, Bangalore. A sign reads "K. Syed & Co"
Centre left: BRV Theatre on the corner of Cubbon Road and Central Street. A sign reads 'Gala Dance'.
Centre right: Oriental…

Various scenes in India
Top right: Ulsoor Lake (Halsur Tank), Bangalore.
Centre: Cinema. On reverse: 'Plaza talkies South Parade Rd'.
Centre right: Passenger train on single track in lush vegetation.
Bottom left: Maharajah 'Krishnaraja wodeyar' Memorial in…

Bangalore scenes
Top left: Air Booking Centre and Bank of Mysore. On reverse 'Bank of Mysore on South Parade'.
Top right: Town view, across an open space St. Mary's Church in Bangalore with further spires and domes and sparse vegetation. On reverse 'Distant view of…
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