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271. Photo 146/1(413)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(413)
Title:
Ganguli [Gangoli], The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
The motorcar raft coming from the Ganguli to Kundapur.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

272. Photo 146/1(215)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(215)
Title:
Kochra River and northern part of the bay. Fishermen's huts are hidden among the trees. Kochra, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A Swiss Family Robinson sort of place. On a serene Sunday afternoon and without warning the S.S. ‘Chaldea’ struck and rode over a submerged and uncharted rock in the Karel Channel, off Newti Point. The vessel being still buoyant the captain decided to beach her, and...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

273. Photo 146/1(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(16)
Title:
Dockyard, Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Stores and Patent Slip of the Bo: S.N.Co: Lt: at Mazagon. Vessels of 600 tons reg: & upwards could here be hauled out of the water. A large Arab dhow is seen lying in the cradle.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

274. Photo 146/1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(12)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Sassoon Dock. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Sassoon Dock excavated from solid rock. Intended for loading ocean going vessels with cotton bales, adjacent. The increasing size of merchant ships soon made the dock obsolete. The lock gates have long since rotted away.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

275. Photo 146/1(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(34)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Shewa. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Looking towards Kuranja Hill. The ruined building is supposed to be a Portuguese customs post. This may have been the frontier with the adjoining Moghul, later Mahratta territory.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

276. Photo 146/1(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(53)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Mandwa. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography On the far or southern shore of Bombay Harbour. A fishing village formerly in the territory of the chiefs of Kolaba. Not to be confused with Colaba on Bombay Island. The grave of an unknown European sailor, beneath and aged banian tree.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

277. Photo 146/1(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(54)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Mandwa. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
A weekend bathing camp, a stone's throw from the sea, by a clump of cactus. Sahib takes his ease whilst tiffin is being prepared. Mandwa Beacon. No negative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

278. Photo 146/1(89)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(89)
Title:
The Kankun Coast, Korlai. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
At the extreme southern end of Korlai are two acute triangles called in military parlance 'scissors', or at times 'hare's ears'. They stand like scissors open and abut to cut. The picture is taken from the triangle nearest the sea and across a dizzy abyss. The water is the inner anchorage and th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

279. Photo 146/1(90)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(90)
Title:
The Konkun Coast, Korlai. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Korlai, when held by the Moghals, had 70 cannons but to meet attack from its precipitous flanks, large stones were rolled down upon the assailants. The Portuguese held the place garrisoned and in full commision up to 1739. With Chaul it was handed over to the Mahrattas in pursuance of the 1740 t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

280. Photo 146/1(126)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(126)
Title:
Dapoli, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The deserted Garrison Church of Dapoli, 7 miles inland from Hurnai. In 1819 it was the Headquarters of the South Konkun Division. In the mid-19th century it was still a cantonment for an active battalion of Native Infantry and the Bombay Veteran Battalion. It was a house of discord and disconten...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item