3-016-938 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Opening of the Punjaub Exhibition of Arts and Industry at Lahore, [India], 1864. The exhibition '...was opened by Sir Robert Montgomery, K.C.B., the Lieutenant-Governor of the province, on the 20th of January, and has been attended by nearly a thousand persons daily, comprising all classes of the natives, from the wealthy shawl merchant to the poor Sikh peasant...This exhibition is well calculated to advance the industrial prosperity of the province'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.