George Hildebrand Alington's album

Album of photographs, ephemera, and documents relating to George Hildebrand Alington's time working for the the Indo-European Telegraph Department in India and Iran, his move to New Zealand, and his family in England and New Zealand.

Includes -

Views of what are probably telegraph buildings in Jask, Iran (then Persia), on the coast of the Gulf of Oman.

Views of the port city of Muscat, capital of Oman.

Ruins of the British Residency in Lucknow, India.

Telegraph buildings, Karachi, India.

Group portraits of George Hildebrand Alington and three of his collegues in the Indo-European Telegraph Department at Karachi labled "Our Mess Oct. 1872."

Views of Mumbai (Bombay), India.

Views of the Rectory and garden, Candlesby, Lincolnshire, England.

House on a farm called Seafield, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Triumphal arch erected by the Indo-European Telegraph department for the Viceroy's visit to Karachi, November 1872.

Uppingham School Chapel, interior looking east towards the altar.

Views of the school house, Uppingham, England.

Group photographs of people attending a fancy dress ball, Karachi, India, 1872.

George and Charles Alington in New Zealand.

Groups of unidentified children, New Zealand.

Portraits of members of the Alington family, 1893-1897.

Unidentified wedding group in front of a house, late 1880s.

Views of architecture and sculpture, Caves of Elephanta, India.

Views of the school and other buildings in Uppingham, England.

View of the facades of the Alexandra Palace, London, after the fire of June 1873.

Alington wedding group in front of a house in England, late 1880s.

Memorial to John Wynford Alington.

Documents in the album include -

Letter recording the termination of George Hildebrand Alington's employment with the Indo-European Telegraph Department dated "Kurrachee, 22 May 1874."

Order transferring George Alington to Karachi dated "Bushline Station 16th Dec. 1871."

Document certifying that George Alington has been a good employee, and has left the Department at his own request, dated "Kurrachee 22 May 1874."

Letter to an editor containing a comic poem farewelling an unidentified person (probably George Alington, as the subject of the poem is giving up being a sahib and relocating to Rakaia, Canterbury, New Zealand).

There are also watercolours of English scenes, and Christmas and new year greeting cards.

This album is associated with MS-Papers-11146-15, Papers relating to George Hildebrand Alington.

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).