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A kalar-azar treatment centre, Charingia, Assam, India: Indian patients are grouped outside a row of grass-roofed buildings; a motorcar is parked outside one building. Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).

India: an Ituni (?) village: grass-roofed houses on raised wooden platforms with two residents. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Assam, India: an Indian man and woman, wearing simple robes, with their two small children, outside a grass-roofed house. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

The sandfly Phlebotomus argentipes, the transmitter of kala-azar disease, feeding on a mammal. Photomicrograph, 1900/1950.

Assam, India: a river with dense vegetation and trees on its banks. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Assam, India: an Indian woman collects water in a bowl from a small pond; a washing line and a grass-roofed house in the background. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Assam, India: a narrow wooden bridge over a river; a car is on the road in the distance; an Indian man stands to one side of the bridge. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Assam, India: a pond surrounded by dense vegetation and trees. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Assam, India: a village of grass-roofed houses surrounded by palm trees, enclosed by a bamboo fence. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Parasites of the tropical diseases kala-azar and oriental sore. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1921.

Assam, India: a kala-azar out-patient centre: a small group of men, women and children sit beneath a grass-roofed shelter with some metal bowls (for heating water for sterilisation ?). Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

The Kalar-Azar Commission Camp field laboratory, Golaghat, Assam, India: a small, white boy in a large hat stands at the camp entrance; grass-roofed buildings with Indian men in the background. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).

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Assam, India: a village of grass-roofed houses surrounded by palm trees, enclosed by a bamboo fence. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Assam, India: a kala-azar out-patient centre: a small group of men, women and children sit beneath a grass-roofed shelter with some metal bowls (for heating water for sterilisation ?). Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

Parasites of the tropical diseases kala-azar and oriental sore. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1921.

The Kalar-Azar Commission Camp field laboratory, Golaghat, Assam, India: a small, white boy in a large hat stands at the camp entrance; grass-roofed buildings with Indian men in the background. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).

Assam, India: a river with dense vegetation and trees on its banks. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).