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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 146

11. Photo 146/1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(8)
Title:
"the"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

12. Photo 146/1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(9)
Title:
Medows Street, Fort, the business quarter within the walls of old Bombay. In the 1860s this particular building was the offices of The Bo: Steam Navgn: Company. 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

13. Photo 146/1(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(10)
Title:
Behind the Wesleyan Church, Colaba Causeway, where the steps led down to the ferry between the Fort and Old Woman's Island. 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

14. Photo 146/1(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(11)
Title:
'Cosy Corner' coffee house, Sassoon Dock. 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

15. Photo 146/1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(12)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Sassoon Dock. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Sassoon Dock excavated from solid rock. Intended for loading ocean going vessels with cotton bales, adjacent. The increasing size of merchant ships soon made the dock obsolete. The lock gates have long since rotted away.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 146/1(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(13)
Title:
Sassoon Dock, Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Sassoon Dock excavated from solid rock. Intended for loading ocean going vessels with cotton bales, adjacent. The increasing size of merchant ships soon made the dock obsolete. The lock gates have long since rotted away.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

17. Photo 146/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(14)
Title:
Capstan for operating the lock gates. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Sassoon Dock excavated from solid rock. Intended for loading ocean going vessels with cotton bales, adjacent. The increasing size of merchant ships soon made the dock obsolete. The lock gates have long since rotted away.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

18. Photo 146/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(15)
Title:
Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The Frere Road offices of the Old Bombay Steam Nagn: Co: Ltd. This building was almost destroyed during the Second Warld War in the explosion of amunitions ship lying in Princes Dock, in the near vicinity. The photograph dates from about 1910. Bullock carts have...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

19. Photo 146/1(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(16)
Title:
Dockyard, Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Stores and Patent Slip of the Bo: S.N.Co: Lt: at Mazagon. Vessels of 600 tons reg: & upwards could here be hauled out of the water. A large Arab dhow is seen lying in the cradle.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

20. Photo 146/1(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(17)
Title:
Bombay Harbour. The yachtlike Royal Indian Marine Steamer 'Clive'. On her port side is another ship cadaver in the last stages of disintegration. To all outward appearance she was many years prematurely delivered to the knacker's yard. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The Dharookhana, site of the H.E.I.C's gunpowder factory at Mazagon, the foreshore where ships were run aground for breaking up. This work was done entirely by sledge hammers in the hands of 'ghattis' or men from the Western Ghauts, more sinewy and powerful than their compatriots of Bombay City.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item