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521. Photo 88/1(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(27)
Title:
[Ceremonial barge, ?Inle Lake.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
Covered barge with tiered roofs and figurehead in the form of a bird, possibly used during the Hpaung daw-u Festival on Inle Lake. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

522. Photo 88/1(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(28)
Title:
[King Thibaw's state barge moored on the Irrawaddy at Mandalay.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
A double-hulled vessel with twin figureheads in the form of nats. The covered area of the boat is built in the form of a tiered roofed pyatthat. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

523. Photo 101(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 101(29)
Title:
View from the Lake [Naini Tal]. Photographer: Murray, John
Scope & Content:
Photograph of the lake in Naini Tal from the Murray Collection: 'Photographic views in Agra and its vicinity', taken by John Murray in 1855. The Kumaon Hills had come under British rule after the Nepal War (1814-16) but the hill station town of Naini Tal was only founded in 1841. It became a san...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid-1850s
Extent:
1 item

524. Photo 146/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(21)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, S.S. Rukmavati. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing passangers by boat at Elephanta, one of the daily calls on her service of the eastern islands and creek of Bombay Harbour. In the background is the southern shore of the Panwell or Ulwa Creek.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

525. Photo 146/1(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(26)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines), Elephanta. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The 'Rotten Row' for unseaworthy Padaws (cotton boats) and other worn out craft. Left here to decay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

526. Photo 146/1(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(29)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Panwell Creek. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking from Belapur towards the Panwell shore. A small launch of the B.S.N. Co. Ltd. at anchor. In 1910 the ferry steamer Godaveri was wrecked on a reef that projected into midstream, the mark buoy having shifted.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

527. Photo 146/1(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(33)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Shewa Bunder, between Ulwa and Karanjah. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography An isignificant fishing village. The small craft are known as 'muchwas'. Note the brab or toddy palm. Also known as the wild palm. The stone ridge in the foreground is a fish trap.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

528. Photo 146/1(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(34)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Shewa. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Looking towards Kuranja Hill. The ruined building is supposed to be a Portuguese customs post. This may have been the frontier with the adjoining Moghul, later Mahratta territory.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

529. Photo 146/1(85)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(85)
Title:
The Konkun Coast. The Sea Gate opens on to the bunder or landing beach. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Below is a busy scene on the bunder on the arrival of the Bombay ferry steamer. The Customs boarding boat wears the blue ensign of the erstwhile British regime. The antique steam launch plies, for passengers 20 miles or so Roha, at the tidal limits of the river. The total fare would be about the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

530. Photo 146/1(122)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(122)
Title:
The Konkun Coast. Hurnai Bunder projecting from Kanka. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The Bombay ferry is steaming in, and passengers are embarking in boats to meet it at the anchorage. Riding at anchor is a Government Salt Department schooner, also responsible for coastal lights and buoys. On Kanka is the harbour light. In the 1817 war it was suf...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

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