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281. Photo 146/1(180)

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Photo 146/1(180)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Gates at the third and last guardroom into the upper courtyard and the Chief's residential quarters. These gates, presumably, are the very same that opened and shut for the Tulajee Angria and which were flung wide agape for Watson and Clive when they entered as ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

282. Photo 146/1(216)

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Photo 146/1(216)
Title:
Kochra, The Konkun Coast. A pole perch fixed into a ventilator of the sunken 'Chaldea'. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography It was not possible to salve her as the seawater was so heavily mixed with sand that the hull soon filled up with the sediment. A Swiss Family Robinson sort of place. On a serene Sunday afternoon and without warning the S.S. ‘Chaldea’ struck and rode over a submerg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

283. Photo 146/1(233)

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Photo 146/1(233)
Title:
Riari [Redi] Fort, The Konkun Coast. The Khem Savant's palace. Presumably they lived at Savantwadi only after they were dispossessed of their coastline. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This stronghold was assaulted by a force under Sir Wm. Grant Keir. The stormers were from H.Ms 89th Foot. They were drawn up on the seashore opposite the breach made by the artillery, and under cover. The lower parts of ramparts were carried and the assault colu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

284. Photo 146/1(237)

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Photo 146/1(237)
Title:
Distant view of Riari, on the rise bordering the creek. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The ruins are now so closely planted, within and without, that no comprehensive picture can be taken of it. Tiger hill stands out to the northward.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

285. Photo 146/1(258)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(258)
Title:
Pangim [Panjim], Goa, Portuguese India. A street scene. House with oyster shell glazing. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Pangim houses once the home of armiger Portuguese families [who] have descended in the social scale. Officials of the government live mostly in the colony of their own, on a nearby hill, and Goans of a better class likewise live in the suburbs. But many of these...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

286. Photo 146/1(425)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(425)
Title:
On the Road from Mangalore to Udipi. The South Canara Coast, Madras Presidency. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Just outside Mangalore.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

287. Photo 146/1(37)

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Photo 146/1(37)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, ruins of the church at Mora (principal village of Karanja). Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Ruins of the church in the grip of the elephant creeper.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

288. Photo 146/1(92)

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Photo 146/1(92)
Title:
The Konkun Coast, Korlai. Gateway into the main courtyard on the summit. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The Portuguese gained their footing on the Bombay coast at the expense of the tributary kings of the Delhi empire. When the intruders settles at Chaul, the opposite side of the river was still held for the kings of Ahmednagar. They built the fortress of Korlai -...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

289. Photo 146/1(120)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(120)
Title:
Severndrug [Suvarnadurg], The Konkun Coast. Fortified islets of Kanka and Fathegadh. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The fortified islets of Kanka and Fathegadh, now joined by causeways to the shore. On Kanka is the harbour light. On Fathegadh traces are seen of its landward facing battery. In the 1817 war it was sufficient for Kanka alone to be assaulted and taken for the other g...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

290. Photo 146/1(131)

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Photo 146/1(131)
Title:
The Konkun Coast. Boria Buner, The Traveller's Rest. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A tea shop. 'Gurrum Char' hot tea, one piece (farthing) a cup (1934).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item