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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 146 Material Type Photographs

161. Photo 146/1(161)

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Title:
Ratnagiri Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A place of little history though its walls, with 41 bastions, enclose an area of, perhaps, 2 square miles. The fort and district were surrendered to Colonel Kennedy and the Konkun Field Force on 31st May 1818 without opposition. In 1862 its 117 iron cannon were stil...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

162. Photo 146/1(162)

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Photo 146/1(162)
Title:
Ratnagiri Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The elephant steps leading down to the highway into the town and interior. The harbour is such only in the Fair Season, and the old jetty used by the ferry steamer passengers is away in the distance. A place of little history though its walls, with 41 bastions, enclose an area of, perhaps, 2 s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

163. Photo 146/1(163)

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Photo 146/1(163)
Title:
Ratnagiri Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The principal (south-west) bastion strides the headland like a warhorse, upon which sits the harbour guiding light like a knight with heavy visor closed. A place of little history though its walls, with 41 bastions, enclose an area of, perhaps, 2 square miles....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

164. Photo 146/1(164)

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Photo 146/1(164)
Title:
Ratnagiri, Kalbadevi Cove. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography On the way back from Mirya Bay to Ratangiri Bay. Commander Taylor I.N. reporting in the 1860s, suggested this bay could be made into a protected harbour for coasting and deep sea vessels for the development of the Kolhapore and Satara States.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

165. Photo 146/1(165)

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Title:
Ratnagiri, The Konkun Coast. Tomb of Theebaw, King of Lower Burma. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Theebaw, King of Lower Burma, was brought here in exile in 1886, and died here in 1916. With him came his two queens, his daughters, and an extensive and picturesque suite. The latter in time all drifted away, and at the end, only locally engaged staff were employed. The senior queen died first,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

166. Photo 146/1(166)

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Photo 146/1(166)
Title:
Ratnagiri, The Konkun Coast. Inscription on the tomb of King Theebaw. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Theebaw, King of Lower Burma, was brought here in exile in 1886, and died here in 1916. With him came his two queens, his daughters, and an extensive and picturesque suite. The latter in time all drifted away, and at the end, only locally engaged staff were employed. The senior queen died first,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

167. Photo 146/1(167)

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Title:
Ratnagiri, The Konkun Coast. Bungalow in which princess of Burma was living in 1935 with her husband and children. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography One of the princesses of Burma had married one of the local Indians employed at the palace built here for the royal family. She was told that if she did not return to Burma with her mother and sisters she would forfeit her pension. So she went, but came back to ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

168. Photo 146/1(168)

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Title:
Ratnagiri, The Konkun Coast. Outram's Bungalow. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Frank Outram, brother of Sir James of Mutiny fame, lived hereup to the time he committed suicide. His widow and two daughters stayed on in the place until the widow also died, the daughters then left the district. Ratnagiri is many miles from the nearest railway...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

169. Photo 146/1(169)

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Photo 146/1(169)
Title:
Ratnagiri, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

170. Photo 146/1(170)

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Photo 146/1(170)
Title:
Jaitapur, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Jaitapur lies 2 miles from Moosakazi anchorage with the town of Rajapur 12 miles further up at tidal limits. The entrance to the river is through a mile wide break in the laterite cliffs, some 80 feet high. In the Moghul era it was the port for the Adil Shah of Bija...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item