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1. Photo 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146
Title:
Thomas Walters Venn Collection: Photographs of Western India. Photographer(s): Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Collection in seven parts. Photo 146/1 is an album of prints, with typescript captions. Photo 146/2-7 comprise six wallets of copy negatives (originals destroyed). Contact prints have also been made from the duplicate negatives.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1910s-1930s
Extent:
Unspecified

2. Photo 146/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1
Title:
Thomas Walters Venn Collection: 'Snapshot views of the West Coast of India'. Photographer(s): Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Green cloth-covered, post-bound album, measuring 273 x 227 mm, with a metal spine. The album contains snapshots mounted two or three to a page with detailed typed captions. The collection covers a broad range of locations and subjects including Indian and colonial architecture, waterways, shippi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1910s-1930s
Extent:
472 items

3. Photo 146/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(1)
Title:
Bombay Harbour. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Bombay Harbour. The South-West Prongs - a wave swept lightghthouse is over a mile from Colaba Point and accessible over the rocks only at low tide. It is still not sited at the extremity of the shore. Completed in March 1874, its cost was computed at only the value ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 146/1(1b)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(1b)
Title:
The Prongs Lighthouse, Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 146/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(2)
Title:
Prongs Lighthouse serang and lascars, Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Bombay Harbour. The South-West Prongs - a wave swept lightghthouse is over a mile from Colaba Point and accessible over the rocks only at low tide. It is still not sited at the extremity of the shore. Completed in March 1874, its cost was computed at only the value o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 146/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(3)
Title:
The S.W. Prongs reef, looking towards Back Bay & Colaba Point. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Bombay Harbour. The South-West Prongs - a wave swept lightghthouse is over a mile from Colaba Point and accessible over the rocks only at low tide. It is still not sited at the extremity of the shore. Completed in March 1874, its cost was computed at only the value ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 146/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(4)
Title:
Sunk Rock Lighthouse. Isolated rock awash at low tide. Ship Royal Admiral wrecked here. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Bombay Harbour. The South-West Prongs - a wave swept lightghthouse is over a mile from Colaba Point and accessible over the rocks only at low tide. It is still not sited at the extremity of the shore. Completed in March 1874, its cost was computed at only the va...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 146/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(5)
Title:
The Dolphin. An unattended light off the Gateway of India. Yacht Club and Government Dockyard in the background. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Bombay Harbour. The South-West Prongs - a wave swept lightghthouse is over a mile from Colaba Point and accessible over the rocks only at low tide. It is still not sited at the extremity of the shore. Completed in March 1874, its cost was computed at only the va...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 146/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(6)
Title:
Unattended light to mark a shoal off Butcher Island, former quaranteen station & naval establishment. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Bombay Harbour. The South-West Prongs - a wave swept lightghthouse is over a mile from Colaba Point and accessible over the rocks only at low tide. It is still not sited at the extremity of the shore. Completed in March 1874, its cost was computed at only the value of one average sized ship and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 146/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(7)
Title:
"The Towers". Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Formerly redoubt of the East India Company on Old Woman’s Island (Colaba) commanding a creek running from the harbour into Back Bay. Later Colaba Causeway linked the island with Bombay proper. Later again the whole channel was filled in and much land reclaimed h...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item