Village life in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1732 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View from the road of a village, with figures seated among the huts and a bullock cart in the foreground.
Road scene in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1737 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. View looking along an unsurfaced road, with thatched village huts on either side. Possibly taken in the same area of South Calcutta (Ga...
View on the canal at Kali Ghat [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1714 in the negative. View looking along the canal towards the suspension bridge across the canal (Tolley's Nullah) at Kali Ghat in south Calcutta, with local craft moored along the banks and a village in the background beyond the bridge.
Low Tide, Custom House Ghat [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1725 in the negative. General view of the ghat at low water, looking across the mud towards boats beached on the riverbank, with sailing ships at their moorings in the Hugli beyond.
Old Court House Street looking south [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1742 in the negative View of the southern end of Old Court House Street from the north-east corner of the grounds of Government House, looking towards the Maidan and showing the classically-designed premises of various businesses on the east side of the s...
Rustic life in Bengal. Native bazaar. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1730 in the negative. A print from Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photographed in the Calcutta area. A view looking along a village street, lined on either side with open-sided huts selling produce of various sorts. A European f...
View of shipping from Fort Point [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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View of shipping moored on the banks of the Hugli just off Fort William, with two three-masted ships in the foreground, the vessel on the right with auxiliary steam power.
View of shipping from Hastings' Bridge [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1723 in the negative. View looking towards European sailing ships and local craft at their moorings in the Hugli near Hastings' Bridge, which crosses Tolley's Nullah at its junction with the river south of Fort William.
Landing goods near the Custom House [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1726 in the negative. View of sailing ships (some with auxiliary steam) moored on the Hugli at Custom House Ghat, with off-loaded barrels in the foreground.