View at Machilipatnam (Masulipatam), showing Master Attendant's House and part of Arsenal in the old Fort, prior to the cyclone of 1864. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View on the waterfront, with local craft moored in the foreground and looking across the harbour towards the fort. '...the fort, which is situated close to the sea, is now little more than a memory. The barracks and arsenal, which fell into decay after the withdrawa...
View from the travellers' bungalow looking towards a temple gopura, Mangalagiri, Krishna District. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from the bungalow seen in print 4576, looking towards a village set among trees, with a temple gopura beyond. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 186[print cropped].
Bethingady (Belthangady?) Bridge, with a distant view of Kudremukh Hill, South Kanara. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the river towards the bridge, with Kudremukh on the skyline beyond. Presumably at modern Belthangady, some 45 miles east of Mangalore. Print unsigned but probably by Ross Thompson.
View of the Krishna River and anicut from Colonel Orr's house, Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from a neighbouring hill, looking across agricultural land towards Vijayawada and the Krishna River beyond. The masonry dam or anicut across the river can just be discerned left of centre. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
Government workshops and Kistna Anicut, Vijayawada (Bezwada), with Sitanagaram Hill in the distance. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down onto the workshops in the foreground, with the dam or anicut across the river beyond, and the hill rising from the far bank. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
Silt trap at entrance to lock chamber on the Kistna Canal, Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along one of the scouring sluices built to keep free from silt the heads of the canals which lead off from the dam. With barges moored in the silt trap. Part of the dam or anicut can be seen in the right background, with the government workshops seen in...
Small channel steamer on the Eluru Canal, Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards a small paddle steamer on a narrow channel of the canal, with the houses of a village beyond. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.
Cotton boats on the Eluru and Masulipatam Canals, probably near Vijayawada (Bezwada). Photographer: Thompson, Ross
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a section of canal, with cotton boats moored along the left bank and at the ghat in the foreground. Signed in the negative Ross Thompson Lt R.E. 1863.