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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1168/1(78)
Title:: Calcutta. Government Place, S.W. [sic, for South-East]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from near the east gateway of Government, looking southwards along Government Place East, towards the Maidan, with shops lining the street on the left, including Cuthbertson and Harper, Allan and Hayes (jewellers) and Harman and Co. In the right foreg...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1168/1(80)
Title:: Calcutta. Wellesley Street [sic, for Place]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking north along Wellesley Place towards the porticoed facade of the Dalhousie Institute, with the statue of the Marquis of Hastings standing beneath the pediment. In the left foreground are a number commercial premises, including Watts and Co (tan...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1168/1(94)
Title:: Treasury Buildings, from Government House [Calcutta]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View from an upper storey of Government House, looking westwards across Government Place towards the Telegraph Office, with the masts of shipping in the Hugli visible above the rooftops beyond.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1170/1(11)
Title:: Native shop, Calcutta, Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:: Postcard view of an Indian shopkeeper with his wares laid out in baskets and hanging from the verandah of his premises.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1910
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1170/1(22)
Title:: The Telegraph Office, Calcutta. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Postcard view of the Telegraph Office, with an electric tram in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1910
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1172/1(6)
Title:: Side street, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:: View of a street lined with shops, and a goat and a male figure in the foreground: 'Open-fronted shops where later in the day the proprietors ... will squat on their heels or sit crosslegged and make appeals to you ... The wide gutters are needed now the rains are here.' (note on back of print)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1172/1(7)
Title:: Main street, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:: View of an almost empty street lined with shops, with two passing women, one carrying a basket on her head, and a male cyclist in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1172/1(8)
Title:: Main street, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:: Another view of the main street, with shops and people in the distance: 'another view taken further along the street from under a huge banyan tree around which two small shops have been built. In these shops tailors work on hand-turned sewing machines making clothes, and shoe-makers squat on the...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:: 1 item

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