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Portrait of the Sunshine Hotel, a flop house on the Bowery in New York's skid row. We meet Vic, the desk clerk, who paints watercolours and pastels; J...

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.

Luscious colour photography of the Taj Mahal and a Mediterranean cruise to Port Said.

Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.

A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

An intimate insight into the servant culture and lifestyle of the Viceroy of India and family, as they visit Simla (Shimla) and Lahore.

A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.

A lovingly crafted home movie charting the maiden voyage of the Brown family's new yacht.