Mangalore, Quayside. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography The Port Office flagstaff is the limit to the left. Volkart Bros are in the large building on the right. The foreshore reclamation, however, stretches further along to cover frontages of Peirce Leslie. Rustomjee Nowrojee and Danner. The fort was the short distance o...
Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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The craft astern is a sea-going buggalow. She is engaged in making a new suit of sails. This is usually done under the advice of a local expert sailmaker.
Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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One of a number of old anchors in the Port Officer’s coir godown yard, almost opposite the bar (on the right horizon. On the left is the estuary of the Natravati River which here joins the Gurpur, the river that runs by the quayside.
The Quays. Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography The quays from the sandpit. The sandpit is kept parallel with the inner shore, at an almost uniform width of 350 yards or so by the Gurpur River. It stretches northward for, perhaps, 1.5 miles, to Sultan’s Battery where the river takes a sharp turn inland.