Box MS-012 Box 4

Content Description From the Collection: This collection consists of the papers of Leslie Coleman, an entomologist, plant pathologist and virologist. He was the first Director of Agriculture in Mysore State. Coleman was instrumental in setting up agricultural research and agricultural education institutions in the state.The Coleman papers are arranged into the following series:Series 1: CorrespondenceSeries 2: WritingsSeries 3: Media coverageSeries 4: Research reprints...

Content Description From the Collection: This collection consists of the papers of Leslie Coleman, an entomologist, plant pathologist and virologist. He was the first Director of Agriculture in Mysore State. Coleman was instrumental in setting up agricultural research and agricultural education institutions in the state.The Coleman papers are arranged into the following series:Series 1: CorrespondenceSeries 2: WritingsSeries 3: Media coverageSeries 4: Research reprints...

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Photos documenting the entire process of the sericulture department in Channapatna.

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Family photo album, loose sheets -- Toda, Lambani, Somnathpur, Halebid, Mysore. Photos from older black paper photo album stapled on brown sheets and envelopes. Includes sensitive colonial portraits of individuals from the Toda community, and photographs of Toda Temple.

Content Description From the Collection: This collection consists of the papers of Leslie Coleman, an entomologist, plant pathologist and virologist. He was the first Director of Agriculture in Mysore State. Coleman was instrumental in setting up agricultural research and agricultural education institutions in the state.The Coleman papers are arranged into the following series:Series 1: CorrespondenceSeries 2: WritingsSeries 3: Media coverageSeries 4: Research reprints...

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Group photo with over 50 people, with Leslie Coleman and Davison seated and garlanded in centre. Rest appear to be from India.

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Seated, L to R: Phebe R Coleman, Leslie C Coleman, Davison. Standing, L to R: Four individuals of Indian origin, signatures on photograph, not decipherable.

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Group photo with 8 people, with Leslie Coleman and Phebe Coleman seated in centre.

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Group photo with over 100 people. Leslie Coleman and Phebe Coleman seated and garlanded in centre.

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Group photo with 28 people, with Leslie Coleman and another person from India seated and garlanded in centre.

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Group photo with 45 people, with Leslie Coleman and another person from India seated and garlanded in centre.

Content Description From the Collection: This collection consists of the papers of Leslie Coleman, an entomologist, plant pathologist and virologist. He was the first Director of Agriculture in Mysore State. Coleman was instrumental in setting up agricultural research and agricultural education institutions in the state.The Coleman papers are arranged into the following series:Series 1: CorrespondenceSeries 2: WritingsSeries 3: Media coverageSeries 4: Research reprints...

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Greeting card with photograph of palace, and royal seal in silk and gold

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Greeting card with photograph of statue square and royal seal in silk and gold

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Greeting card with photograph of the Mysore palace.

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Postcard sized greeting. Unknown sender, indecipherable signature

Content Description From the Collection: This collection consists of the papers of Leslie Coleman, an entomologist, plant pathologist and virologist. He was the first Director of Agriculture in Mysore State. Coleman was instrumental in setting up agricultural research and agricultural education institutions in the state.The Coleman papers are arranged into the following series:Series 1: CorrespondenceSeries 2: WritingsSeries 3: Media coverageSeries 4: Research reprints...

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"Loose Photos with some ID, mostly in Phebe Ropes Coleman's hand, some seem to be in the hand of her niece, Constance (Connie) Williams" -- Part 1: Mysore Imperial Transport Bullock in Residency Grounds (1920), Trenches for sugarcane in J C Farm (1932) [5 photos, approx 4x6 in]

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"Loose Photos with some ID, mostly in Phebe Ropes Coleman's hand, some seem to be in the hand of her niece, Constance (Connie) Williams" -- Part 3: Family: Leslie Coleman, Phebe Coleman, Louisa, Leslie Jr, Family dogs (Patrick and Bubbles), Elizabeth Ayah, Constance (Connie), Chicky (Malabar squirrel) [16 photos, approx. 2x3 in].

Scope and Contents "Loose Photos with some ID, mostly in Phebe Ropes Coleman's hand, some seem to be in the hand of her niece, Constance (Connie) Williams" -- Part 4: Sugarcane cultivation, paddy experimental plots in Chikkanahalli, jaggery processing, cattle breeding station, cane car for transporting cane, slip point shares, Mysore plough, Kirloskar plough, Eureka plough, Meston plough, Kolar mission plough, manure transportation, field trip with Ralph Morris and Sholigas, Chamarajanagar State Forest, photo...

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"Loose Photos with some ID, mostly in Phebe Ropes Coleman's hand, some seem to be in the hand of her niece, Constance (Connie) Williams" -- Part 5: Sugarcane fields, most others unidentified [11 photos. Approx. 3x5 in, some 2x3 in]

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"Loose Photos with some ID, mostly in Phebe Ropes Coleman's hand, some seem to be in the hand of her niece, Constance (Connie) Williams" -- Part 6: Work related gathering with unidentified people, postcard of Krishnaraja Wadiyar [2 photos, approx 3x5 in]

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"Loose Photos with some ID, mostly in Phebe Ropes Coleman's hand, some seem to be in the hand of her niece, Constance Williams" -- Part 7: Travel: Sravana Belagola Jain Shrine, Belur Temple, Sivasamudram, Jog Falls, Halebid, Machan stay [12 photos, approx. 2x3 in]

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Five photos (undated unless stated otherwise): LCC on field visit in India, LCC with two people at train station in 1925, two profile photographs of LCC (likely ca 1910s or 1920s), one torn village scene photograph.

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Krishnaraja Wadiyar on horse, in a procession.

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Text on tombstone reads "… Of Mary MacDonald, beloved wife of Dr Leslie Coleman, Director of Agriculture in Mysore. Born in Oakville, Canada on the 19th October, 1882. Died at Attikan on the 10th May, 1918".

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Barton Son and Co Ltd Photographers. Bangalore and Ootacamund (Ooty). Reg. No. 10620.

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Scribbled on back: "Colonel Crawford??"

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Foreground with two men walking. Background with industrial site and chimney with smoke.

Content Description From the Collection: This collection consists of the papers of Leslie Coleman, an entomologist, plant pathologist and virologist. He was the first Director of Agriculture in Mysore State. Coleman was instrumental in setting up agricultural research and agricultural education institutions in the state.The Coleman papers are arranged into the following series:Series 1: CorrespondenceSeries 2: WritingsSeries 3: Media coverageSeries 4: Research reprints...

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Photo of a musical performance taken at a meeting at a high school in Kolar. Leslie Coleman with Mr Ramenayengar. Includes handwritten inscription.

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Photo album containing photographs taken by P R Raghuram Pillai at the Department of Agriculture during Coleman's visit in 1954. Photographs show Coleman with his colleagues and staff, tea ceremony, Coleman using lab instruments and other facilities at the Department.

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Photo album containing photographs taken during Coleman's visit to the Mysore Agricultural and Experimental Union at Mandya. Shows Coleman delivering a talk on a dias, photos with colleagues and members of the union.