Bombay, The Konkun Coast, Angria's Kolaba. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography All is now ruin where once the Angrian chiefs live in barbaric state. Here the scent of the Marmudrie weed (wild sage) is all pervading. The slight blur behind the tottering walls of the so-called palace, is the hill of Konkeshwar, some miles inland, where the p...
Fort Sindadrug, Malwan. The Konkun Coast. View from the main gate looking towards the town. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Fort Padamgad, what is left of it, is the last collection of rocks nearest the shore. (Continued from previous leaf) Wide scattered field of reefs and islets, the nearest of which is Padamgarh where was Shivajee's naval depot. Time has since pushed over his masonry ...
Ruins of Martand. Centre Temple. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '635' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Surya Temple, looking down onto the ruins from the neighbouring hillside.
Ruins of Martand. Cloisters, inner side. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered 'Bourne 717' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the columned cloister of the Surya Temple.
Kafir Kila near Afghan Persian border, a proposed winter quarter for 1885-86. Photographer: Survey of India
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Original sketch inscribed: 'Kafir Kila. E.D. 85.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the substantial ruined caravanserai at Kafir Kila, now known as Islam Kila or Eslam Qal'eh, near the Iranian border on the Herat-Meshed road. Photographic copy of a sketch by Edward...
Palace of Kesra Anushirwan. Taaq Kesra. Photograph—faded—of the great ruin at Ctesiphon on the River Tigris. Photographer: Alexander Svoboda
Scope & Content:
Signed in ink, bottom right of print: [?] A.S. General view from the front of Cyrus' Arch at Ctesiphon. Print laid down on modern mount, with captions (as above) from original mount pasted down.
[Sassanid palace and Cyrus' Arch, Ctesiphon.] Photographer: Alexander Svoboda
Scope & Content:
Signed in ink, bottom right of print: [?] A.S. View of the palace ruins, presumably taken on the same occasion as print 1. Print laid down on modern mount.