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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1180/4(6)
Title:: Jute being transhipped from boats at ghat to press-house [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:: View showing bales of jute being unloaded from boats at the riverside, presumably on the Hugli at or near Calcutta.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1900
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(2)
Title:: Cawnpore [Kanpur]. Massacre Ghat. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1208 in the negative. Visited by the compiler of this album between 3rd and 4th March 1878. View looking along the Ganges riverbank towards Sati Chaura Ghat. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as, 'Suttee Chowra Ghat, the scene of the Massacre.'
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1863-1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1224/2(50)
Title:: Muttra [Mathura]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:: Visited by the compiler of this album between 11th and 13th March, 1878. Print unsigned, but probably by Samuel Bourne and probably the image listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Muttra, from the opposite bank, with Bridge of Boats.' View looking across the Yamuna, with bullock carts ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863-1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1258(23)
Title:: Close-up of Howrah bridge [Calcutta]. Photographer: Sperring, Stanley
Scope & Content:: View looking across the bridge from just behind Nimtollah Ghat (visible on the extreme left) on the Calcutta side. With trams in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1946-1953
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: PP.3803.bha, 2/10(3)
Title:: The Otoko Zaka and Onna Zaka, Fudo-o-Sama, Nigishi. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of the steep flight of steps leading up to the temple: 'Fudo-o-sama is described to us by Japanese as not a true god, but a deity invented by the priests. He is neither Sintoo not Buddhist, but his temples are generally — we believe always — placed by a str...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: WD4464(22b)
Title:: The Taptee River. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Tapti, probably at Surat, as in print 21a, with ghats leading down to the water in the middleground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

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