This unusual though perhaps Orientalist collection of images by the photographer, a native of Corfu, gives us fresh insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Indian history.

The end of Balaclava Harbour, 1855-1856. Photo at the J Paul Getty Museum.

Locomotive on Eggleston

Lincoln Memorial 1914

A photograph of Bodie in the 1890s, when it was a thriving mining town

Troops passing Lochnagar Crater, October 1916

officers of the imperial German Air Service compete at a squadron athletics meeting near the western Front in 1917

San Francisco after the earthquake in 1906

Bannu Cantonment

Artists drawing on Blackboard, Mayo School of Arts (now NCA) early 1900s

Air Show on New Year’s Day Parade in Lahore, 1936

Buildings of Lahore - The Illustrated London News c. 1905

Troops passing Lochnagar Crater, October 1916

La Boisselle mine crater, August 1916

Drivers talk on a steam locomotive at the Yongdingmen railway station in Beijing in 1981