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1481. Photo 88/1(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 88/1(28)
Title:
[King Thibaw's state barge moored on the Irrawaddy at Mandalay.] Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
Scope & Content:
A double-hulled vessel with twin figureheads in the form of nats. The covered area of the boat is built in the form of a tiered roofed pyatthat. Print unsigned, but probably by Klier.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

1482. Photo 92/10(132)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 92/10(132)
Title:
Scenery on the march. A road in Keng Hung [now Jinhong, Yunnan]. Photographer: Scott, James George
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of path through forest. Location = China; Jinhong; Keng Hung; Yunnan
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

1483. Photo 101(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 101(29)
Title:
View from the Lake [Naini Tal]. Photographer: Murray, John
Scope & Content:
Photograph of the lake in Naini Tal from the Murray Collection: 'Photographic views in Agra and its vicinity', taken by John Murray in 1855. The Kumaon Hills had come under British rule after the Nepal War (1814-16) but the hill station town of Naini Tal was only founded in 1841. It became a san...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid-1850s
Extent:
1 item

1484. Photo 101(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 101(30)
Title:
Bareilly Road [Naini Tal]. Photographer: Murray, John
Scope & Content:
Photograph of a view of the road leading from Naini Tal to Bareilly from the Murray Collection: 'Photographic views in Agra and its vicinity', taken by John Murray in the mid-1850s. Bareilly was a former Mughal Capital ceded to the British in 1801. The Kumaon Hills had come under British rule af...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid-1850s
Extent:
1 item

1485. Photo 146/1(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(17)
Title:
Bombay Harbour. The yachtlike Royal Indian Marine Steamer 'Clive'. On her port side is another ship cadaver in the last stages of disintegration. To all outward appearance she was many years prematurely delivered to the knacker's yard. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The Dharookhana, site of the H.E.I.C's gunpowder factory at Mazagon, the foreshore where ships were run aground for breaking up. This work was done entirely by sledge hammers in the hands of 'ghattis' or men from the Western Ghauts, more sinewy and powerful than their compatriots of Bombay City.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

1486. Photo 146/1(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(18)
Title:
Bombay Harbour. The S.S. Bahaduri. Many years commodore ship of the Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. The binnacle compass by which she had been steered through 45 years of monsoon & fair weather watches the progress of demolition. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The Dharookhana, site of the H.E.I.C's gunpowder factory at Mazagon, the foreshore where ships were run aground for breaking up. This work was done entirely by sledge hammers in the hands of 'ghattis' or men from the Western Ghauts, more sinewy and powerful than their compatriots of Bombay City.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

1487. Photo 146/1(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(19)
Title:
Shipbreaking Yard, Bombay. Name of steamer unrecorded. The one on the right is the Royal Indian Marine Ship 'Clive'. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The Dharookhana, site of the H.E.I.C's gunpowder factory at Mazagon, the foreshore where ships were run aground for breaking up. This work was done entirely by sledge hammers in the hands of 'ghattis' or men from the Western Ghauts, more sinewy and powerful than their compatriots of Bombay City.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

1488. Photo 146/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(20)
Title:
'Lot's Wife', Bombay Harbour. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The government shooner used by the Commisioner of Salt and Excise Department of the Bombay Presidency. In the left background is Trombay Island (so-called). On the right is Karanja. Two toneys or dug-out canoes are near ship.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

1489. Photo 146/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(21)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, S.S. Rukmavati. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing passangers by boat at Elephanta, one of the daily calls on her service of the eastern islands and creek of Bombay Harbour. In the background is the southern shore of the Panwell or Ulwa Creek.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

1490. Photo 146/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(24)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines), Elephanta. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing causeway on north side at low tide. The rock temples are in the neck between the two hills. The stone elephanta from which the place takes its name is just above high water mark but is here obscured by bushes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

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