Vengurla, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography Dutch factory at Vengurla. One of the corner bastions. Formerly in Savantwadi State, now a talug of Ratnagiri District. 220 miles south of Bombay.
Bombay Harbour. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Landscape Photography Bombay Harbour. The South-West Prongs - a wave swept lightghthouse is over a mile from Colaba Point and accessible over the rocks only at low tide. It is still not sited at the extremity of the shore. Completed in March 1874, its cost was computed at only the value ...
Pangim [Panjim], Goa, Portuguese India. Church of San Sebastian. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography The cathedral is on the hill behind. The ancient cathedral of Bom Jesus is on Old Goa, some 3 miles inland. Pangim houses once the home of armiger Portuguese families [who] have descended in the social scale. Officials of the government live mostly in the colo...
The Franciscan church & convent of Santa Barbara. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography Note one of the several breaches in the seaward walls. A former Portuguese settlement on the banks of the Ambalika river. 30 miles by sea from Bombay and 7 from Alibagh. An inscription in the forecourt states that the ramparts were completed in 1577, but many ...
Hurnai [Harnai] and neighbourhood, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography Roman Catholic church of St Ann built in 1817, the first year of British occupation. A few poor native Christians live here. They are said to be descendants of craftsmen from Goa engaged for the maintenance of the fabric of the forts by the Angrias. They are as ...
The Retreat. Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography Bungalow occupied by the agent of the B.S.N.Co. Mangalore has an important export trade in coffee, pepper, cardamons and, above all, in cashew nuts, the most and best of which go to the United States. The Clan Line give a direct service to Europe. So, too, the...
'Cosy Corner' coffee house, Sassoon Dock. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography Formerly redoubt of the East India Company on Old Woman’s Island (Colaba) commanding a creek running from the harbour into Back Bay. Later Colaba Causeway linked the island with Bombay proper. Later again the whole channel was filled in and much land reclaimed h...