From Trivandrum; With 92 photographs: c. 12th January: Trip together with the female archaeologist Dr. Minakshi and Miss Cunning before the Bakes left for Madura on their way to Colombo, to "the seven Pagodas" or Mahabalipuram (officially Mamallapuram, the large town of Mallas), the remains of a port town of the Pallava kings in the 5th-9th century A. D. The photographs show temples and sculptures cut from live rocks. About 50 miles from Madras. Photographer: Bake, Arnold Adriaan
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of the Mahabalipuram port (officially Mamallapuram, the large town of Mallas), the remains of a port town of the Pallava kings in the 5th-9th century A. D., about 50 miles from Madras.
Panoramic view of the Potala, Lhasa. Photographer: John Claude White.
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Panoramic view of the Potala and surroundings from Chakpori Hill. Inscribed Copyright, 1914, by National Geographic Magazine. For another copy of this photograph, an original print in good condition, see Photo 530/53 (89). [Transferred to Visual Arts Section.]
Sir Thomas Higham Collection: Album of panoramic photographs of Murree. Photographer: Sir Thomas Higham (attrib)
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Green cloth-bound album measuring 170 mm x 395 mm, blind-stamped Kodak Panoramas on front cover, containing 21 panoramic views taken with a Kodak panoramic camera. The photographs are probably Higham's own work, and consist of uncaptioned views, principally of Murree, but also with a number of v...