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221. Photo 296/2(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 296/2(51)
Title:
[Government House, Shillong, after the earthquake.] Photographer: Chokroborty, S.K.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Duplicate at Photo 190/2 (4) where it's attributed to S.K. Chokrobortty. Subjects = British colonial architecture; disasters; earthquakes; European architecture in India; government houses
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 item

222. Photo 1000/14(1479)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/14(1479)
Title:
Ajnar Bridge near Sihor, damaged by floods. Photographer: Dayal, Deen
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1882
Extent:
1 item

223. Photo 1000/34(3486)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3486)
Title:
No. 37. Ava. Tower of the Palace. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the Nanmyin, a square brick and stucco watchtower, tilting and surrounded by fallen masonry. Letterpress continues: 'This is the only co-herent remains of the palace. The earthquake of 1839 covered the ground with the rest of it and tilted this considera...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1855-Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

224. Photo 1000/34(3546)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3546)
Title:
No. 97. Mengoon. Pagoda from N.W. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the massive, cracked and ruinous pagoda (allegedly the largest mass of brickwork in the world). The Irrawaddy can be seen in the background. Letterpress continues: 'Begun but never completed by King Mendaraggee about the end of last century. It i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

225. Photo 1000/34(3547)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/34(3547)
Title:
No. 98. Mengoon. Pagoda from S.E. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography With nearest corner collapsed. Letterpress continues: 'This corner shows the effects of the earthquake most completely. On reaching the top by it, the surface is seen rent into broad and deep fissures - a glacier in brickwork'. With India Museum wetstamp (unnum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1855
Extent:
1 item

226. Photo 1000/45(4592)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/45(4592)
Title:
The Lower Coleroon Anicut under repair after being breached in the cyclone of 1864. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1865
Extent:
1 item

227. Photo 1000/45(4605)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/45(4605)
Title:
The Lower Coleroon Anicut under repair after being breached in the cyclone of 1864. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1865
Extent:
1 item

228. Photo 1134(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1134(7)
Title:
Hunger Camp famine relief works, Lucknow 1897. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Large group of men, women and children sitting in camp.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1897
Extent:
1 item

229. Photo 1148(97)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(97)
Title:
Watching an eruption of boiling mud on volcano of Aso-San, Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

230. Photo 1168/1(97)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(97)
Title:
Calcutta. Cossipore after the Cyclone. Photographer: Baker, F. W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View looking along the Hugli at Cossipur in the aftermath of the 1864 cyclone, showing sailing ships wrecked on the riverbank and houses beyond. Photograph uncredited, but tentatively attributed to F. W. Baker, who is known to have taken a series of views of the cyclone...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep 1864-Oct 1864
Extent:
1 item

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