Panoramic view from Chowringhee Road [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1709 in the negative. View looking north along Chowringhee Road, with the Maidan on the left. In the distance can be seen the Ochterlony Monument, Government House and the Town Hall (extreme left).
[Hotel des Indes, Batavia (Jakarta)] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '5' in pencil on mount. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the square towards the facade of the Hotel des Indes, with an unidentified circular domed building (possibly an icehouse?) on the left. Also reproduced in Scott Merrillees, 'Batavia in nine...
[Trafalgar Square, London, with Nelson's Column under construction.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the base of Nelson's Column, seen here swaithed in scaffolding, with the church of St Martin-in-the-Field and Morley's Hotel in the background on the east side of Trafalgar Square. In the foreground a wooden fence covered in bill posters can be seen. Che...
[Square at Floriana,] Malta. Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
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Inscription: Inscribed in ink at bottom right of page: 'Malta. C.R.J.' Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View across a square, looking towards balconied houses, with a lion fountain in the foreground. Paper trimmed to size of image laid down on card 235 x 297 mm.
[Piazza Vittoriosa] Malta. Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
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Inscription: Inscribed in ink at bottom right of page: 'Malta. Rev. C. Jones'. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View across the square, towards wooden-balconied buildings with a statue on a tall plinth to the left. Paper trimmed to size of image and laid down on card 236 x 305 mm.
