A Prussian photographer who worked in the USA and India, John Edward Sache is best known for his documentation of the Indian subcontinent in the mid-nineteenth century. Aligning with the ...

British photographer Samuel Bourne came to India in 1863 as a young man of ... Bourne’s images are considered some of the finest examples of 19th-century travel photography.

Subtle and delightful! As Harvard's John Overholt put it, the map-in-the-hand is basically "a 19th century PalmPilot." Alas -- for both ladies of London and for fans of quirky tech -- "as far as ...