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  • A Sikh man on a horse followed by a man holding a parasol. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A Sikh (?) woman in a bright orange dress holding an umbrella and walking. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Bakery at the Indian army base in Makina, Basra, Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): British soldiers watch the preparation of the dough by Sikh (?) bakers. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Sikh Pioneers (an engineer battalion of the Indian army) in Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, posed behind a soakage pit of their own construction. Photograph by J.D. Graham, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Cichorium intybus L., Asteraceae. Chicory, succory. Distribution: Uses: 'Cichory, (or Succory as the vulgar call it) cools and strengthens the liver: so doth Endive' (Culpeper, 1650). The Cichorium sylvestre, Wilde Succorie, of Gerard (1633) and the leaves cooked into a soup for ill people. Linnaeus (1782) reported it was used for Melancholia, Hypochondria, Hectica [fever], haemorrhage and gout. Root contains 20% inulin, a sweetening agent. Dried, roasted and ground up the roots are used as a coffee substitute, best known as Camp coffee (Chicory and Coffee essence). This used to be sold in tall square section bottle with a label showing a circa 1885 army tent with a Sikh soldier standing and serving coffee to a seated officer from the Gordon Highlanders. The bottle on the label has now moved on, and since 2006 it shows the same tent but the Sikh and the Scot are now both seated, drinking Camp coffee together. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Battle in Kabul. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Page 116: three portraits of kings, princes or generals. Gouache drawing.
  • Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Kings and other devotees paying homage to Guru Nanak, as food and drinks are organised and served to a number of people. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Guru Gobind Singh mixing nectar for his disciples at the birth of Khalsa. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Page 53: Guru Gobind Singh on horseback with his falcon and attendants. Gouache drawing.
  • Page 53: Guru Gobind Singh on horseback with his falcon and attendants. Gouache drawing.
  • City of Lahore with Ranjit Singh in foreground, Punjab, Pakistan. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Afghan soldiers caught between allied troops in the Anglo-Afghan war, 1839-42. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Her Majesty Queen Victoria and entourage visiting soldiers wounded during the Boer War, in a ward at Netley Hospital. Pen and ink drawing by J. Duncan, c. 1900, after F. C. Dickinson.
  • Queen's Road East, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Rana Ranjit Singh on a horse with three attendants. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Queen's Road East, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Queen's Road East, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Queen's Road East, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Pedder Street, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Pedder Street, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Pedder Street, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Pedder Street, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across the Benue river in a British expedition to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan, 1894.
  • Lt. Col. Ashburnham performing animal magnetism on Lt. Col. Forbes. Pen and ink drawing, 183-.