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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(14)
Title:: Bhuj jail. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Photograph of the jail at Bhuj, Gujarat, taken by an unknown photographer during the late 1870s. This view shows the walled enclosure in which the jail stood, near the Sirpat city gate. It was designed as a version of the panopticon system proposed for the creation of safe and humane prisons by ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(16)
Title:: Chatris at Bhuj. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Photograph of chhatris at Bhuj, Gujarat, taken by an unknown photographer during the 1870s. The chhatris are the cenotaphs or funerary monuments of the Raos of Kutch, the rulers of Bhuj, and stood to the west of the town bordering the Hamirsar Tank. They took the form of domed kiosks or pavilion...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(17)
Title:: Rao Desalji's 'Chatri', [Bhuj]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Photograph of Rao Desal’s chhatri at Bhuj, Gujarat, taken by an unknown photographer during the 1870s. The chhatri is a funerary monument and was one of a group of cenotaphs belonging to the Raos of Kutch, the rulers of Bhuj, which stood to the west of the town bordering the Hamirsar Tank. Most ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(18)
Title:: The Jain temples, [Jamnagar]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Photograph of the Jain temples at Jamnagar, taken by an unknown photographer in 1875. Jamnagar, founded in 1540 by Jam Rawal, used to be an important princely state of Surashtra. There are two Jain temples in the centre, the Shantinath Mandir and the Adinath Mandir, dedicated to the sixteenth and...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(19)
Title:: Deewan's house, [Jamnagar?]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Photograph of the Diwan's house, possibly at Jamnagar, Gujarat. This print was taken by an unknown photographer in the 1870s is part of the Temple Collection. The view shows the façade of the Diwan's (or Prime Minister's) house.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(20)
Title:: [Side view of the] Deewan's house, [Jamnagar?]. Photographer: Unknown
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(21)
Title:: Southern view of the town of Nawanugger [Jamnagar]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Photograph of the Southern view looking along the city walls, with arched entrance gateway and ramparts in foreground.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(22)
Title:: Khambalia Gate, [Jamnagar]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: This view shows the richly decorated façade, head-on view of arched with sculptural decoration of the unfinished Khambalia Gateway.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 125/3(24)
Title:: Elephant car [Jamnagar?]. Photographer: Unknown.
Scope & Content:: Side view of elephant carriage, with background painted out on negative.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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