Mar 26, 2016

A Family on Riverside with Boats and Village in the background - Eastern Bengal c1860's

A Family on Riverside with Boats and Village in the background - Eastern Bengal c1860's

A family group in foreground, with houseboats moored along the riverside, and a village in the background on the further bank. The view was taken in Eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh and Assam) by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s.
Source: British Library