Dhurrumtollah, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along Dhurrumtollah Street with Ghulam Muhammad's Mosque at left and the spire of the Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart at right.
Mosque, Calcutta. [Bhosri Mosque.] Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from street showing portion of the Bhosri Mosque, with an alleyway to right and Indian figures posed in the roadway in the foreground. The identification of this building as the Bhosri Mosque, near the Chitpore Road, comes from Pratapaditya Pal (ed), 'Chang...
Madrassa [sic, for Hindu College], Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking north-west along the southern facade of the Hindu College in College Square, showing the central ionic portico. The Hindu College was founded in 1817 and became the Presidency College in 1855. See 'Presidency College, Calcutta, Centenary Vol...
Hindoo [sic for Mahomedan] College, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking in a north-westerly direction along the southern façade of the Mahomedan College or Madrasa, on Wellesley Street, Calcutta, with the spire of the Free Church of Scotland visible in the background.
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the rooftops of Calcutta, with India huts and European mansions in the foreground, towards a church spire on the skyline. This is possibly the Free Church of Scotland on Wellesley Street.
Native garden, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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View looking across an enclosed area planted out with vegetables, towards huts and a more substantial single storey stuccoed building. With an Indian man posed in the foreground.
Mosque near Kidderpore, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the grassed courtyard towards the small mosque, possibly the building marked on contemporary maps as standing at the southern end of Coolie Bazar Gate near the south-west corner of the racecourse.
Fire signal tower, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the roadway towards a flimsy wooden tower used for firewatching. For a sketch by Colesworthy Grant of a similar fire tower, see his 'Anglo-Indian domestic life' (Calcutta, 2nd edition, 1862), p. 10: 'Fires, however, we certainly have in ...