Author: INDIA IN LONDON
Title: Portland Hall, Langham Place. Programme. The Parsee Dramatic Company. The Anglo-Hungarian Band.
Description: Alfred Letts & Co., printer, 19th January, 1886. [ink note] Bifolium, 265 x 210 mm. printed three sides. Paper brittle with a couple of short closed tears. Under the patronage of Lord Harris, Under Secretary of State for India, "this exhibition has been opened for the purpose of bringing into notice some of the Industries, Manufactures and Arts of India. The arrangement of the Portland Hall is such that an excellent idea of an Indian Native Village is given." With displays in the form of shops for embroiderers, fan makers, ivory workers, wood carvers, weavers and gold beaters. The Parsee Theatrical Company from Bombay gave daily sketches and an assortment of entertainments.

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