Maharaja Umaid Singh, Jodhpur, c.1910, Albumen Print, 300×250 mm, Unknown Photographer, PhotoMuse Collection, 2018, Gift of Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, Source – Herbert Ascherman Collection.

Umaid Singh GCSI GCIE KCVO (1903 –1947), was Maharaja of Jodhpur from 1918 to his death. The second son of Maharaja Sir Sardar Singh, he succeeded his elder brother Maharaja Sir Sumair Singh upon his death in 1918; in 1922 he served as the aide-de-camp (personal assistant or secretary) to the Prince of Wales (later Edward…

Jodhpur Royal family, c.1910, Albumen Print, 300×260 mm, Unknown Photographer, PhotoMuse Collection, 2018, Gift of Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, Source – Herbert Ascherman Collection.

Jodhpur State also historically known as the Kingdom of Marwar, was a kingdom in the Marwar region from 1226 to 1818 and a princely state under British rule from 1818 to 1947. Jodhpur State was the largest state under the Rajputana Agency (political office of the British Indian Empire) and the third largest state in…

Burmese woman on a boat, 1908, Stereograph, 85×175 mm, Unknown Photographer, PhotoMuse Collection, 2015, Donation of Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, Source – Herbert Ascherman Collection.

Burmese woman on a boat, Irrawaddy River, Burma.  Stereo Travel co, Corona N.Y. Stereoscopy is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision. Most stereoscopic methods present two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. These two-dimensional images are…