View of the Guntur road from the Kistna Anicut quarries at Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards Sitanagaram Hill, with road over canal in foreground. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
Mortar Mills, probably in the Krishna District. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography Bullock teams attached to grinding wheels in the foreground, with brick kiln beyond. This is presumably one of the series of views by Thompson of irrigation works in the Krishna District which were shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, although this particular pho...
Genre: Landscape Photography Buffalo pulling a large grindstone attached to a wooden arm. The buildings in the background appear to be in the Fort area of Bombay. Probably a print shown at an international exhibition.
1930. Reconstruction of Agra-Delhi Telegraph Line. Photographer: Cameron, John Gordon Patrick
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Genre: Industrial Photography View of piles of pipework. Prints 58-68 all document aspects of this project, with accompanying note: 'An adjacent road made it possible to utilise mechanical transport to supplement bullock carts and electric drilling was adopted for the first time on such work.'