Bamboo jungle [Coorg or Kodagu]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along an unsurfaced road leading through a thick growth of bamboo: 'A narrow and difficult path led us by the Siddheshwar Betta of Hill through a thicket of bamboos which, rearing themselves in immense clusters from 60 to 80 feet high, curved gracefully...
Merkara - Palace in distance. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography General view of Mercara (modern Madikeri), looking towards the palace and fort on the hill opposite. [Albumen print, oval vignetted image, 180x120mm]. Subjects = architecture; Bowring Collection; forts; Indian architecture; palaces Location = India; Karnataka;...
Panorama of Merkara [Madikeri]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view of the town from the east, composed of three joined prints. In the centre print can be seen the fort and palace hill, with the English Church visible at the south end of the fort enclosure. In the lower lying land in the foreground is the Omkareshvara...
Tombs of the Rajas at Merkara [Madikeri]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of group of domed tombs at the north end of the town (which can be seen in the background, with the fort beyond). [Albumen print, 250x185mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Islamic); tombs Location = In...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a youth and a girl, posed against a plain cloth backdrop. [Albumen print, 98x125mm]. Subjects = ethnic groups Location = India; Karnataka; Kodagu District
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a man and two women, posed against a plain cloth backdrop. This photograph is also reproduced in Watson & Kaye's 'The People of India' (vol. 8, 1875), plate 425 (see Photo 972 (425)), there captioned 'Amma Kodagi, or Kaveri ...
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a man and a woman, posed in front of a plain cloth backdrop. This portrait is reproduced in Watson & Kaye's 'The People of India' (vol. 8, 1875), plate 428 (see Photo 972/8 (428)), captioned 'Hegades': 'Meder and his wife be...