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Colonel Hope Kelsall Collection

Archive Collection: MS 2057

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Colonel Hope Kelsall Collection

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS 2057

Date(s): 1890-1910

Size and medium: 80 black and white photographs; 1 box

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/527561

Description

Comprises photographs taken by Kelsall while on leave from the British Army in India, broadly 1890-1910, showing scenes in India, Sri Lanka (dated 1905), China, Japan, Burma and Korea. The subjects include buildings, people and landscapes. A few of the photographs taken in China have been partly coloured in. Most are undated.

Biography or history

Hope Waddell Kelsall (1869-1949) was born at sea off the Isle of Wight. He married Jane Hope Mitchell in Averstoke, Gosport, in 1899. At this time he was a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. Kelsall served in the British Army in India.

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