"Pilgrims of the Sacred Fair of Hurdwar, in the Bengal Presidency," a steel engraving by White and Higham (Fisher, Son & Co., London, 1845); *a very large scan of this engraving*

Source: ebay, Nov. 2004

"It is difficult to convey an adequate idea of the grandeur and beauty that render Hurdwar one of the places most worthy of a traveler's attention, in India, or to attempt to describe the diversified swarms of animate creation that, in the form of men and beasts of every race and clime, cover the whole ground around the holy station during the annual festival of the pilgrims at Hurdwar, in April. Horse-merchants from Bokhara and Cabool occupy the stony, central portions of the river; while those from Turkistan take up quarters behind the houses of the town. Elephant dealers incline to the suburbs for the sake of fodder; but, morning and evening, traverse the roads with their studs, each elephant having a bell attached to its neck to give warning of approach. Buneas, or grain-sellers; Hulwaes, or confectioners; cloth, shawl, and toy-merchants, occupy the roadside, close to the town; their dwelling-places being interspersed with enclosures containing piles of barley and straw, heaped up and ready for sale.

The crowding and confusion of buyers and sellers; the native groups in every imaginable variety of costume--some shining in cloth of gold, and surrounded by followers richly arrayed; others less expensively, but picturesquely, dressed, and many half-naked or wildly clad--all mingled together, among priests, soldiers, and religious mendicants-half beggar, half bandit; with here and there a cluster of Europeans mounted upon elephants, and affecting to look with supreme contempt upon the scene around them--exhibit altogether a combination of individualities that no other place in the world is capable of presenting. As may be easily imagined, the noise baffles all description."

"A Hindoo Fair," a wood engraving from the Illustrated London News, 1858; very large scans of the *left half* and the *right half* of this engraving

Source: ebay, June 2002

"An Indian Harlequin playing the tiger," from the Illustrated London News, 1864

Source: ebay, Dec. 2007

"Performing goat," from the Illustrated London News, 1864; click on the image for a very large scan; the *tourist poster version, 1935*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2009

Snake charmers, Bombay; a wood engraving, 1875 (Hachette, Paris)

Source: ebay, Dec. 2007

"The Magh Mela, or annual fair, at Allahabad," from The Graphic, 1888

Source: ebay, Nov. 2007

"Scene in the River Godavery, Nassik," an albumen photo of a pilgrimage center, c.1880's

Source: ebay, Feb. 2008