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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Disasters Level [40] File

1. Photo 29(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 29(6)
Title:
The Blenheim after the hurricane Novr. 1867 [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1703 in the negative. View of shipping on the River Hugli at Calcutta, with the hulk of the sailing ship Blenheim in the foreground and other sailing ships beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1867
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1134(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1134(7)
Title:
Hunger Camp famine relief works, Lucknow 1897. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Large group of men, women and children sitting in camp.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1148(97)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(97)
Title:
Watching an eruption of boiling mud on volcano of Aso-San, Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1178(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(11)
Title:
Bandarawela Railway — Slip in cutting No. 26, June 1894. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view of the rockslip in the cutting, with a large body of railway labourers posed on the hillside and on the skyline.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1894
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1192(107)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1192(107)
Title:
Syrian [sic, for Syriam] oil tank after fire. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
Scope & Content:
Coloured postcard, divided back. View of the remains of an oil tank at Syriam, destroyed in a fire.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1258(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(4)
Title:
Monsoon floods, Calcutta, 1950. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:
Pedestrians in a flooded Calcutta street.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1950
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1258(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(5)
Title:
Monsoon floods, Calcutta, 1950. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:
Pedestrians in a flooded Calcutta street.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1950
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1258(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1258(32)
Title:
Monsoon floods—Calcutta 1950. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:
Showing cars, a rickshaw and pedestrians negotiating a flooded street in Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1950
Extent:
1 item

9. WD4244

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4244
Title:
Calcutta from the Strand during the cyclone of 5 October 1864. Artist(s): Armstrong, John Arthur (b. 1840)
Scope & Content:
Calcutta from the Strand during the cyclone of 5 October 1864. Inscribed: ‘J. Armstrong 1864’. On original album page: ‘Calcutta ‘The Strand’ October 5th 1864’. 24.5 by 34.5 cm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 Item