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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 146

21. Photo 146/1(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(18)
Title:
Bombay Harbour. The S.S. Bahaduri. Many years commodore ship of the Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. The binnacle compass by which she had been steered through 45 years of monsoon & fair weather watches the progress of demolition. 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

22. Photo 146/1(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(19)
Title:
Shipbreaking Yard, Bombay. Name of steamer unrecorded. The one on the right is the Royal Indian Marine Ship 'Clive'. 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

23. Photo 146/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(20)
Title:
'Lot's Wife', Bombay Harbour. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The government shooner used by the Commisioner of Salt and Excise Department of the Bombay Presidency. In the left background is Trombay Island (so-called). On the right is Karanja. Two toneys or dug-out canoes are near ship.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 146/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(21)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, S.S. Rukmavati. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing passangers by boat at Elephanta, one of the daily calls on her service of the eastern islands and creek of Bombay Harbour. In the background is the southern shore of the Panwell or Ulwa Creek.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 146/1(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(22)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Hog Island. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The ferry steamer's next call after Elephanta. Shows the derelict engine house and ruins of a hydraulic lift for dry docking of the ocean going vessels of the period (1860s). It was a failure and was abandoned after one near disaster trial.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 146/1(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(23)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines), Elephanta. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Mangrove swamps fringe much of the island.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 146/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(24)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines), Elephanta. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing causeway on north side at low tide. The rock temples are in the neck between the two hills. The stone elephanta from which the place takes its name is just above high water mark but is here obscured by bushes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 146/1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(25)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines), Elephanta. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing causeway on north side at low tide. The rock temples are in the neck between the two hills. The stone elephanta from which the place takes its name is just above high water mark but is here obscured by bushes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 146/1(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(26)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines), Elephanta. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The 'Rotten Row' for unseaworthy Padaws (cotton boats) and other worn out craft. Left here to decay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 146/1(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(27)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines). Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Visitors to the caves returning to the south side to re-embark on the ferry steamer for Bombay. Much of the hillside has been quarried for works on the new docks.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item