Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the rooftops of Calcutta, with India huts and European mansions in the foreground, towards a church spire on the skyline. This is possibly the Free Church of Scotland on Wellesley Street.
Native garden, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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View looking across an enclosed area planted out with vegetables, towards huts and a more substantial single storey stuccoed building. With an Indian man posed in the foreground.
Mosque near Kidderpore, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the grassed courtyard towards the small mosque, possibly the building marked on contemporary maps as standing at the southern end of Coolie Bazar Gate near the south-west corner of the racecourse.
Fire signal tower, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the roadway towards a flimsy wooden tower used for firewatching. For a sketch by Colesworthy Grant of a similar fire tower, see his 'Anglo-Indian domestic life' (Calcutta, 2nd edition, 1862), p. 10: 'Fires, however, we certainly have in ...
Village near Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig' (signature cropped). Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a tank towards the thatched houses of an Indian village.
La Martinière, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography A slightly distant view of the main façade of the Martinière school in Calcutta, looking over the roofs of a settlement of Indian huts in the foreground.