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91. Photo 247/3(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(32)
Title:
Ghaut for burning the dead near the Hooghly, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

92. Photo 248(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 248(7)
Title:
Juggernauth Car, (decorated for festive procession). Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the negative, 'F. Fiebig' (signature cropped). View of a large temple car, decorated with flags, being processed along a street in South India (probably in Madras or vicinity), with followers in the background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

93. Photo 248(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 248(45)
Title:
Preparation for native festivities, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street in Madras, with flags and a decorative hanging erected across the roadway in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

94. Photo 248(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 248(46)
Title:
Preparation for native festivities, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
View looking along the pathway beside a temple tank, towards a covered hanging erected in front of the temple gopura.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

95. Photo 248(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 248(50)
Title:
Preparations for native festivities, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street of Indian houses, towards decorations at the far end.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

96. Photo 248(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 248(51)
Title:
Juggernauth Car. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street, decorated with hangings, towards a temple mandapa, with a large temple car or 'ratha' parked at the roadside in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

97. Photo 248(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 248(54)
Title:
Preparation for native festivities, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street towards the entrance to a Hindu temple, with decorations erected in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

98. Photo 248(55)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 248(55)
Title:
Preparation for native festivities, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a roadway, decorated with flags, banners and a hanging.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

99. Photo 364/22(77)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 364/22(77)
Title:
Hindu worshippers, Conjeeveram. Photographer: Zetland, 2nd Marquess of
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Worshippers grouped in temple compound.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

100. Photo 430/7(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/7(2)
Title:
Erivan: the lake in the court of the great Shiah mosque of Guek Jame. Shiahs performing their ablutions. N.B. fancy entering a Shiah mosque in Persia and photographing the pious over their ablutions! Photographer: Lynch, Henry Finnis Blosse
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the ablution tank in the mosque, with figures posed on the far side. A man in western dress, presumably one of Lynch's party, stands at the extreme left. Published: H. F. B. Lynch, 'Armenia. Travels and studies' (2 vols., 1901), vol. 1,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1893-1894
Extent:
1 item

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