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| Keywords: Nawab's Shahbagh Garden dhaka 1904 02.jpg en Photograph looking towards a water-tower in the Shahbagh Gardens in Dacca Dhaka now the capital of Bangladesh taken by Fritz Kapp in 1904 part of an album of 30 prints from the Curzon Collection Lord Curzon was Viceroy of India from 1899-1905 In February 1904 he toured Eastern Bengal and visited Dhaka on the 18th and 19th where he stayed at the Ahsan Manzil Palace This album of gelatine-silver prints commemorates his Dhaka visit though it is not a record of it and only presents us with general views Kapp worked as a commercial photographer from the 1880s onwards and had studios in Chowringhee Road and Humayun Place in Calcutta From the early 1900s he had a studio in Wise Ghat Road in Dhaka 1904 http //www oldindianphotos in/2010/05/nawabs-shahbagh-garden-dhaka-1904 html Fritz Kapp Custom license marker 2012 12 24 PD-Bangladesh Uploaded with UploadWizard Old vintage photographs of Bangladesh Fritz Kapp British Library Photo 430 Curzon Collection | ||||
