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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

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 1/6(1)
Title:: The steamer 'City of Yedo' as she now lies [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events View of the wrecked paddlesteamer moored at the wharf in Tokyo, after the explosion of her boiler on 1 August 1870: 'The steamer lies on her starboard side with her bow up-stream — her funnel and all connected with it, the bridge, and a great portion of her decks blown ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/4(3)
Title:: Kobe Bay to the westward, from the American Hatoba. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events View looking along the Kobe waterfront from the American jetty, showing the devastation caused by the typhoon of 5 July 1871. This issue of 'The Far East' gives a detailed description of the event. For a view of this area before the typhoon, see vol. 1, no. 22, print 4.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/4(4)
Title:: Concession Bund, Kobe. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events View looking along the Bund waterfront, showing damage caused by the typhoon of July 1871.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/4(5)
Title:: Kobe Bay to the westward. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events View along the waterfront, showing damage caused by the typhoon of July 1871.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/11(1)
Title:: The Japanese steamer 'Osaka,' as she lies stranded at Noge [Yokohama]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events View from the shore, looking towards the steamer 'Osaka,' grounded off Yokohama in the typhoon of 24 August 1871.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 3/20(4)
Title:: After the late fire in Yokohama. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Historical Events View of buildings destroyed in the Yokohama fire of 22 March 1873. The surviving building are fire-proof godowns.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 20(30)
Title:: [Ink Drawing titled] Mary of Sunderland.
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in ink; 'Mary of Sunderland[?] Nov. 1840'. An ink sketch of a sailing ship in the midst of a storm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1840
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD314
Title:: Album of 31 drawings, 10 of which were made during a visit to Ceylon and India, 1858. Animal subjects, landscapes and seascapes. Artist(s): Jesse, George Richard (fl. 1858-1874)
Scope & Content:: 31 drawings (33 folios), 10 of which (listed below) were made during a visit to Ceylon and India, 1858. Animal subjects, landscapes and seascapes. Some drawings signed and inscribed with titles in ink and pencil. Pencil, pen-and-ink, and wash; size of volume, 10 by 14 ins; drawings approximat...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1858
Extent:: 1 Item

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

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