The Hooghly near Princep's Ghaut, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Hugli, with sailing ships moored along the riverbank and an unidentified building in the left background.
General [sic, for Colonel] Kyd's Monument in the Botanical Garden, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the pathway towards the domed memorial pavilion, with two Indian figures posed in the foreground. Robert Kyd (1746-1793) was the founder of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens. The memorial was erected in 1795 on a site selected by his successor, W...
Interior of a native gentleman's dwelling, Chandernagore [incorrectly captioned for: Imambura at Chinsura]. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from courtyard, looking along the façade of the imambara at Chinsura. For another photograph of the same building, see Photo 247/1(29).
Wharf of the O.P.S.N. Comp., Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the wharf area occupied by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, with piles of coal in the foreground. The wharf itself is obscured by buildings in the foreground.
Superintendent's residence in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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View looking across the lawn towards the three-storey house, with a curved frontage overlooking the river, originally occupied by the botanist William Roxburgh, who was appointed Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in 1793.
The Hooghly from Cooley Bazaar, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Looking north along the Hugli from the riverbank at Cooley Bazaar (the area to the west of the racecourse), with sailing ships and local craft at their moorings. The Gwalior Monument and Fort William can be seen in the distance.
Wharf leading to the P.O.S.N. Comp., Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the wharf area of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, with the masts of a sailing ship visible beyond the thatched buildings in the foreground.
Steam wharf to the P.O.S.N. Comp., Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Industrial Photography View looking across an area strewn with metal boilers and other equipment, towards a sailing ship moored in the background. A sheerlegs is in operation at the quayside.
Coalsheds to the P.O.S.N. Comp., Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a thatched house stacked with coal, on the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company wharves at Garden Reach.