'Great Eastern Hotel Calcutta', 1865
Photograph by Samuel Bourne (1834-1912), India, Bengal, 1865.
The Great Eastern was opened by David Wilson in 1841. Originally 'The Auckland Hotel', it was named after George Eden, the Earl of Auckland, who was then Governor General of India. The most exclusive hotel in Calcutta, then the capital of the Raj, it was renamed in the 'Great Eastern' in the 1860s.
From an album of 95 photographs including views of Calcutta taken by Bourne, 1865-1870 (c).
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1965-05-90-43
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1965-05-90-43
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