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211. Photo 1000/34(3546)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3546)
Title:
No. 97. Mengoon. Pagoda from N.W. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the massive, cracked and ruinous pagoda (allegedly the largest mass of brickwork in the world). The Irrawaddy can be seen in the background. Letterpress continues: 'Begun but never completed by King Mendaraggee about the end of last century. It i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

212. Photo 1000/34(3547)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3547)
Title:
No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography With nearest corner collapsed. Letterpress continues: 'This corner shows the effects of the earthquake most completely. On reaching the top by it, the surface is seen rent into broad and deep fissures - a glacier in brickwork'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

213. Photo 1000/45(4592)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/45(4592)
Title:
The Lower Coleroon Anicut under repair after being breached in the cyclone of 1864. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1865
Extent:
1 item

214. Photo 1000/45(4605)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/45(4605)
Title:
The Lower Coleroon Anicut under repair after being breached in the cyclone of 1864. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1865
Extent:
1 item

215. 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

216. 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

217. Photo 1168/1(97)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(97)
Title:
Calcutta. Cossipore after the Cyclone. Photographer: Baker, F. W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View looking along the Hugli at Cossipur in the aftermath of the 1864 cyclone, showing sailing ships wrecked on the riverbank and houses beyond. Photograph uncredited, but tentatively attributed to F. W. Baker, who is known to have taken a series of views of the cyclone...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1864-Oct 1864
Extent:
1 item

218. Photo 1168/1(98)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(98)
Title:
Calcutta. St James Theatre after the Cyclone. Photographer: Baker, F. W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View of the wreckage of the theatre after the 1864 cyclone. Photograph uncredited, but tentatively attributed to F. W. Baker, who is known to have taken a series of views of the cyclone (see Sothebys Photograph Sale, 2 May 1997, lot 327, for an album of views by Baker s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1864-Oct 1864
Extent:
1 item

219. Photo 1168/1(100)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(100)
Title:
Calcutta. The results of the Cyclone. Photographer: Baker, F. W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View looking along a path, strewn on either side with fallen and denuded trees, with a thatched house in the right background. Photograph uncredited, but tentatively attributed to F. W. Baker, who is known to have taken a series of views of the cyclone (see Sothebys Pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1864-Oct 1864
Extent:
1 item

220. Photo 1168/1(102)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(102)
Title:
Calcutta. The results of the Cyclone. Photographer: Baker, F. W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a fallen tree uprooted in the cyclone, probably photographed in the Botanical Gardens. Photograph uncredited, but tentatively attributed to F. W. Baker, who is known to have taken a series of views of the cyclone (see Sothebys Photograph Sale, 2 Ma...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1864-Oct 1864
Extent:
1 item

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