| Description | Eleven albumen photographs mounted on four boards showing views before and after the flood and landslip at Gohna Lake, northwest India in 1894, taken by H S Wildeblood, comprising:
1) 'Gohna Lake before the overflow taken from the edge of the dam'.
2) 'Gohna Lake at Durmi looking east', 10 Mar 1894.
3) 'No.15. Gohna Lake after overflow taken below Durmi looking towards the dam', Sep 1894
4) 'No.19. Outlet of the Gohna Lake through gorge cut in the dam on overflow (Aug 26)', Sep 1894.
5) 'No.23. Southern face of the gorge cut in the dam on overflow of the lake, Aug 26th 1894', Sep 1894
6) 'No.24. Slickenside on one of the blocks of rock exposed on the southern face of the gorge cut in the dam', Sep 1894.
7) Gohna dam and lake from the village of Gohna.
8) 'Birahi ganga valley just below Gohna'.
9) 'Gohna dam from the left bank below'.
10) Two photographs of the Presidency College, Calcutta, 1894. Caption in pencil 'direction of creep towards depression on left, not shown'. |
| CustodialHistory | The album is likely to be incomplete, however copies of some of the missing images are likely to be in series LDGSL/942/2. |
| Provenance | Probably the remains of the "Book of Photographs of Gohna Lake (Kumaun, Himalayas), before and after flood, exhibited by Dr W T Blanford...on behalf of C L Griesbach, Esq, CIE, Director of the Geological Survey of India" at the Ordinary General Meeting of 6 November 1895. |