c. 1903Agra

The Taj Mahal from the garden

Period stereograph (Underwood-type tourist issue).

Street photograph

What this plate shows

The mausoleum photographed from the garden, water in the near field, the dome and minarets beyond, figures on the path. A camera on the ground at Agra. Present status: surviving. Architect is traditional attribution, not a fact this photograph proves.

Image type: Street photograph
Structure: Taj Mahal
Region: Asia
Documented completion: c. 1648
Architect: Attributed to Ustad Ahmad Lahori; attribution is traditional, not a signed contract on this plate.
Present status: Surviving — The mausoleum still stands. Exact photographer and year of this stereo are not fixed on the mount — recorded as uncertain.
Source: Library of Congress stereo collection (1s26440).
License: Public domain.

Collections where this plate appears

05Monumental architecturePeriod photographs of named structures. Documented identification first. Present status is a later fact recorded beside the plate — surviving, altered, burned, demolished, reconstructed, replaced — not a verdict the image is asked to prove.