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Subject Fire Towers

1. Photo 247/3(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(10)
Title:
Fire signal tower, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 247/3(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/3(25)
Title:
Kidderpore Bridge, Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the side of the Kidderpore suspension bridge (built c. 1826) and across the canal known as Tolly's Nullah, towards the fire watching tower on the far side.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

3. PP.3803.bha, 1/17(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 1/17(2)
Title:
A fire tower, Yedo [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a wooden fire tower at Tokyo: 'All over Yedo, and in all the great cities of the Empire, are towers similar in their general design to that depicted...The tower pictured in the photograph is somewhat dilapidated; and is the only portion of the ya...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item