Madras [visited 8th—11th November 1877]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View from the lighthouse looking northwards down onto and along the waterfront and harbour of Madras (Chennai), towards the jetty in the background and shipping at anchor in the roadstead beyond. A steamship has been driven onto the foreshore and lies beached in the shallows.
Madras [famine relief grain supplies on the beach]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking southwards along the beach, which is covered with sacks of grain for famine relief. This image is reproduced in William Digby, The famine campaign in Southern India (London, 1878), and there dated February 1877.