Building for burning the dead, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig.' Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards a burning ghat on the Hugli, the roofline crowded with vultures. Possibly Burning Ghat (now Nimtala Cremation Ground), just north of Nimtollah Ghat.
Burning of the dead on the banks of the Hooghly (near Barrackpore). Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Inscription: Signed in the negative 'F. Fiebig' (signature cropped). Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the riverbank towards a small group seated beside a funeral pyre.
Ghaut for burning the dead near the Hooghly, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the bank of the Hugli towards a burning ghat, with vultures gathered on the roofline of the adjoining building.
The Rev. Habb preaching to the Klings (South Indians) in Pinang. Photographer: Kristen Feilberg
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Open-air sermon in progress. Print shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. View of Rev. Habb conducting an open-air sermon to a large group of Indian settlers in Pinang, Malaysia, taken by Kristen Feilberg. This Photograph is part of the Archaeological Survey of India Collection and was exhibite...
A Burmese funeral procession at Rangoon. Photographer: Jackson, J.
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Photograph of a Burmese funeral procession at Rangoon (Yangon), taken by J. Jackson in c.1868. Funeral procession halted in the street to be photographed.
