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Louis-Théophile Marie Rousselet

Entrance of the Palace of the Padishahs, Delhi

1865–68, published 1869–70
Albumen print from glass plate negative

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Louis Rousselet described himself as a “scientific traveler” when he went to India alone at age 18 in 1863 and stayed into 1868

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