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India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck

Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890-1910)c. 1890-1910

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Cleveland, United States

This busy street corner gives us a glimpse into everyday life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century India. Unlike most of the mid-19th century genre photographs of colonial India, which were posed or staged, here people go about their business, unaware that they are being photographed. The color scene was made using a black-and-white negative by Dr. Kurt Boeck, a German actor and mountain climber who became a travel writer and lecturer specializing in Asia.

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  • Title: India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
  • Creator: Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890-1910)
  • Date Created: c. 1890-1910
  • Physical Dimensions: Paper: 20.6 x 26.2 cm (8 1/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
  • Provenance: Collection of Gunther Heil, Germany, Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Photograph
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.187
  • Medium: Photochrom
  • Inscriptions: Imprinted in gold type on recto: “20005.P.Z-CALCUTTA. UPPER CHITPORE ROAD.”
  • Fun Fact: Chitpore (now spelled Chitpur) Road is one of the oldest roads in Kolkata (previously Calcutta).
  • Department: Photography
  • Culture: India, 19th century
  • Credit Line: Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
  • Collection: PH - Misc. 19th Century
  • Accession Number: 2019.187
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