2483 - Beaton, Cecil. *Indian Education*. Collection of 7 silver gelatin prints. Vintage prints. Each has adhesive labels on the reverse from *Indian Education* with numbering and captions; 6 of the photos are also stamped “Cecil Beaton Photograph.” Circa 1944. Sheet dimensions: 24.8 x 19.5 cm and 25 x 20.4 cm.

Beaton, Cecil. *Indian Education*. Collection of 7 silver gelatin prints. Vintage prints. Each has adhesive labels on the reverse from *Indian Education* with numbering and captions; 6 of the photos are also stamped “Cecil Beaton Photograph.” Circa 1944. Sheet dimensions: 24.8 x 19.5 cm and 25 x 20.4 cm. The English fashion, portrait, and photojournalist Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904–1980) was sent to India and China by the British Ministry of Information at the end of World War II. Of the approximately 7,000 photographs he took, only a fraction were published. Sir Beaton was able to use some of the photos for his famous *Indian Album*, first published in the winter of 1945–46 by Batsford in London, including the one included here, “Two schoolgirls absorbed in their studies” (on p. 38) —others appeared in his photo book *India*, published in 1945 by Thacker & Co. in Bombay. —The unstamped photograph is slightly larger; the caption is a typescript. —Slightly silvered around the edges in places; edges slightly bumped. #