Photographs of Calcutta Docks construction works. Photographer(s): William Duff-Bruce and others unknown
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Red buckram portfolio containing prints mounted on card, with captions in ink beneath. Prints are numbered with a stamped number in the top right-hand corner. Although all the pictures relate to the construction of the Kidderpore Docks, they appear to have been gathered from different sources. P...
Bombay Harbour, Sassoon Dock. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Sassoon Dock excavated from solid rock. Intended for loading ocean going vessels with cotton bales, adjacent. The increasing size of merchant ships soon made the dock obsolete. The lock gates have long since rotted away.
Sassoon Dock, Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography Sassoon Dock excavated from solid rock. Intended for loading ocean going vessels with cotton bales, adjacent. The increasing size of merchant ships soon made the dock obsolete. The lock gates have long since rotted away.
Dockyard, Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography Stores and Patent Slip of the Bo: S.N.Co: Lt: at Mazagon. Vessels of 600 tons reg: & upwards could here be hauled out of the water. A large Arab dhow is seen lying in the cradle.
'Jetty at Sitra.' Photographer: Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons
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Genre/Subject Matter: View of the jetty at Sitra, Manama, Bahrain. Two large liners are visible at centre and left in the background. Various cranes and other moving equipment is visible. Inscriptions: Below image, in pen: 'Jetty at Sitra' Below image, in pencil: ‘505’