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211. Photo 146/1(213)

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Photo 146/1(213)
Title:
Newti, The Konkun Coast. A corner of the South Cove. Vengurla Head in the distance. Kochra Cove a couple of miles or so around the near bluff. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Here lay the Bhonle's sneak-thief navy. It kept the offshore waters in fair season only, preying only upon the small unarmed coastal traders in the days of the Angrias of Gheria he was careful not to overlap or intrude into their 'trade'. Nor ever to voluntarily mee...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

212. Photo 146/1(214)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(214)
Title:
Newti Point, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The terrain hereabout is laterite (later - Latin 'brick') and when freshly quarried is of that colour. It weathers red and black and purple. It is said that the large masses of this rock are splintered off by boulders on the top surface getting into cracks and crevi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

213. 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

214. Photo 146/1(216)

Reference (shelfmark):
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

215. Photo 146/1(217)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(217)
Title:
Kochra Bay, 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

216. Photo 146/1(218)

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Photo 146/1(218)
Title:
Vengurla, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Vengurla is of some historical importance and ends the stony aridity of the Konkun coast below Janjira to this point. Several travellers of old time to the East Indies write of Vengurla and of the jovial drinking habits of the Dutch factors there. They were given co...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

217. Photo 146/1(219)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(219)
Title:
Vengurla, the Verdant. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Formerly in Savantwadi State, now a talug of Ratnagiri District. 220 miles south of Bombay. The old Dutch factory at Vengurla. The senior merchants had villas outside the walls, but of these a casual search found no trace.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

218. Photo 146/1(220)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(220)
Title:
Vengurla, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Dutch factory at Vengurla. One of the corner bastions. Formerly in Savantwadi State, now a talug of Ratnagiri District. 220 miles south of Bombay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

219. Photo 146/1(221)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(221)
Title:
Vengurla, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Another view of the Dutch factory. The old cannon in the foreground had no identifying foundry or national marks or cyphers. Formerly in Savantwadi State, now a talug of Ratnagiri District. 220 miles south of Bombay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

220. Photo 146/1(222)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(222)
Title:
Vengurla Head, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The rubble breakwater of the jetty is seen at the base of the hill well protected from the N.W. monsoon. Site of the Tembe Battery already mentioned (overleaf). The harbour guiding light and flagstaff are now there. The Traveller’s Bungalow is on the lower point,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item