Seven photographs of Bombay. Photographer(s): Chintamon, Hurrichund
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Loose mounted prints with handwritten captions. Print 1 Drawing of the New Secretariat. Print 2 View of a hulk at the quayside. Print 3 Large panorama of the Elphinstone Reclamation. Print 4 University Convocation Hall. Prints 5-6 Panoramas of Colaba docks. Print 7 Panorama of the Elphinstone Re...
Studio portrait of an Parsee woman and child, Bombay. Photographer: Hurrichund Chintamon.
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Studio portrait, with woman standing, child seated on European style chair. Print shown at Paris Exhibition of 1867. See Photo 150 (20) for another portrait of this woman, taken during the same sitting but with a different child seated in the chair. This photograph is probably by William Johnson...
Large group posed in front of verandah of house, some wearing livery. The Bankotis are defined by Edwardes as a group of hereditary servants from the Konkan: 'A certain number of Konkanis, known as Bankotis, are employed as menials in Hindu households and are somewhat highly paid, their wages ha...