Rubber Tree, Assam, India (Ficus Elastica)

Inscriptions

Titled in negative: "FICUS ELASTICA--ASSAM--INDIA--RUBBER. SCOWEN / & / CO"; written in pencil on recto: "Rubber Tree"

Artist: Charles T. Scowen (British)
Date: c.1880s
Medium: albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions: Image: 22 x 27.8 cm (8 11/16 x 10 15/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Accession no.: 1993.24

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