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'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