Old Bommay Gowdah and family, mentioned in Sanderson's 'Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India'. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography The family posed outside their hut. 'Bommay Gouda is a man of about fifty-five years of age. He is of good caste, being a Shivachar or Lingayet, and lives by cultivation and breeding and selling cattle. Of all the cheery jungle-companions I know Bommay Gouda stands f...
Loading elephants, into Madras Railway waggons, six weeks after capture. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Elephants entering the ten ton capacity open wagons. Subjects = animals; elephant wagons; elephants; Lee-Warner Collection; Madras Railway; railway companies; railway rolling stock; railways; transport Location = India; Karnataka; Mysore district
Elephants en route for sale at Palghat, the late Mr Sanderson in the fore-ground. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Sanderson and three other figures posed in front of a wagon carrying two elephants. George P. Sanderson probably died c.1892 (see album introduction). Subjects = animals; elephant wagons; elephants; Lee-Warner Collection; Madras Railway; railway companies; railway rol...
End view of narrow guage bogie waggon adapted for carrying elephants. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Historical Events Looking along the wagon, with an elephant in place and showing the system of shackling the animals to bollards set into the floor of the wagon. Subjects = animals; elephant wagons; elephants; Lee-Warner Collection; Madras Railway; railway companies; railway rolling st...