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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/21(2038a)
Title:: General view of the Linga Shrine in the Shiva Temple, Elephanta. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/25(2453)
Title:: Interior of the Shiva Temple looking towards the linga shrine, Elephanta (stereoscopic double). Photographer: Newton, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Faded print. 'Photo. by W. Griggs from a negative lent by H. Newton Esq. late of Bombay, 17/10/71.' Received 2 March 1872. India Museum no. 532/37.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/26(2622)
Title:: Mandapas in the Venkataramana Temple, Tadpatri. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View showing parts of two mandapas. The mandapa with stone monkeys on the eaves (see print 2619) is in the background. In the foreground a European figure stands beside the stone shrine used to hold a tulsi (sweet basil) bush, sacred to Vishnu. India Museum no. ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/29(2914)
Title:: Jumbookeshwar Temple near Trichinopoly. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Interior of shrine with lingam in centre. Received from Captain Lyon, 5th May 1871. India Museum no. 1154. Duplicate at Photo 212/1 (15).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/32(3245)
Title:: Marble pavilion in the enclosure of the Swami Narayan Temple, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Chhatri or pavilion, with brackets in the form of carved figures. India Museum no. 1488. Received from Captain Lyon 7 February 1871. Duplicate print at Photo 1001 (3245), where the structure is named as the 'Stone bird chattri'. 597. - This little shrine is bui...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3523)
Title:: No. 74. Amerapoora. Gautama's Shrine. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Shrine with figures of the Buddha receving homage from a white elephant and a nat. Letterpress continues: 'This is at the Sontoung-pyee-tiyne Pagoda. The white elephant and a Nat are making offerings to Gautama. The Nats, in Burman belief, are an order of being ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Sep 1855-Oct 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3563)
Title:: No. 114. Rangoon. The Votive Tree. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Offerings hanging from the tree, probably in the precincts of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Letterpress continues: 'Offering of muslin are suspended from this in honor of Gautama; some even have prayers written on them in the idea that every breeze would waft their petitio...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/69(5938)
Title:: Lingam on the seashore near the Shore Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/37(1994)
Title:: Interior of the mandapa looking towards the entrance to the linga shrine, Santeshvara Temple, Tillivalli. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along two rows of columns towards the doorway of the shrine, with the linga visible inside. Photograph taken during the Western Circle survey season of 1892-93. Another copy of this print at Photo 1009/1 (1366). Subjects = Indian architecture
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1892-1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1002/38(2070)
Title:: Shrine in the Jhavari Premchand Temple, Satrunjaya. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Richly-carved niche in the temple, housing a tirthankara image, which is not visible due to the oblique angle of view (but see print 2089).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 1889-Mar 1889
Extent:: 1 item

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