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Collection Area Visual Arts Language Not applicable Place West Bengal, India

1. Photo 15/1(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/1(31)
Title:
Rustic scene in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View from the roadside of a village scene, one of a series of views on this theme made by Samuel Bourne. A later print (1890s) of a Bourne photograph. Subjects = architecture (vernacular); Elgin Collection; rural life; villages
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 27(96)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 27(96)
Title:
[Bengal village scene.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Thatched village dwellings by the side of the road. Subjects = architecture (vernacular); dwellings; rural life; villages
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 27(97)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 27(97)
Title:
View in Kassimpore [Bengal]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Showing characteristic dwellings with curvilinear thatched roofs. Subjects = architecture (vernacular); dwellings; rural life
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 27(98)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 27(98)
Title:
Village scene [Bengal]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Village scene with men and women engaged in various tasks in front of a house and a well. Both these structures are thatched with characteristic curvilinear roofs. Subjects = architecture (vernacular); dwellings; rural life
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 27(99)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 27(99)
Title:
The Bazar [Bengal village scene]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = architecture (vernacular); bazaars; dwellings; rural life
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 27(101)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 27(101)
Title:
The Bengallee plough. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Agricultural scene, with farmer in foreground working with a crude plough, formed from a yoke resting on the shoulders of two bullocks with the cross-piece descending between the two animals. Subjects = agricultural implements; agriculture; animals; bullocks; farming; ploughing; ploughs; rural...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 230(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 230(1)
Title:
Landing stage [?Garai River, Nadia District, West Bengal]. Photographer: Temple, J.A.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View along the riverbank towards the landing stage. Passage in the letter at the front of the album refers to this print: 'I enclose another photograph of the floating landing stage with a cargo boat or barge alongside discharging materials. Lying beneath the bridge...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 230(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 230(2)
Title:
Pontoon [?Garai River, Nadia District, West Bengal]. Photographer: Temple, J.A.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking down onto a pontoon moored at the riverside. Subjects = Eastern Bengal State Railway; railway building; railway companies; railways; transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 230(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 230(3)
Title:
Long traveller [?Garai River, Nadia District, West Bengal]. Photographer: Temple, J.A.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = cranes; Eastern Bengal State Railway; gantry cranes; machinery; railway building; railway companies; railways; transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1869
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 230(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 230(12)
Title:
[River scene, Bengal.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = river scenes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item