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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 146

301. Photo 146/1(300)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(300)
Title:
Angediva Island, The North Canara Coast. Part of the Grande Battery. The gun carriages have long since rotten away. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Angediva for 150 years or so kept in full commission. It was, too, and intermediate rendezvous for the Portuguese royal navy, especially so for their frigates engaged in suppressing piracy. The English corsairs English and Taylor, in company, in 1720 passed between the island and the main, they ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

302. Photo 146/1(301)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(301)
Title:
Angediva Island, The North Canara Coast. Another battery commanding the channel and approach to the only landing place. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Angediva for 150 years or so kept in full commission. It was, too, and intermediate rendezvous for the Portuguese royal navy, especially so for their frigates engaged in suppressing piracy. The English corsairs English and Taylor, in company, in 1720 passed between the island and the main, they ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

303. Photo 146/1(302)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(302)
Title:
Angediva, The North Canara Coast. The reputed grave of Sir Abram Shipman. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
It is said it at one time had an inscription, but it is no longer there. The marble cross was in pieces and was propped up for this picture. By the time more positive orders arrived from Lisbon to admit the English to Bombay, of Shipman and his 400 men only Ensign Cooke and 117 other ranks were ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

304. Photo 146/1(303)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(303)
Title:
The reputed grave of Sir Abram Shipman. Angediva, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
It is said it at one time had an inscription, but it is no longer there. The marble cross was in pieces and was propped up for this picture. By the time more positive orders arrived from Lisbon to admit the English to Bombay, of Shipman and his 400 men only Ensign Cooke and 117 other ranks were ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

305. Photo 146/1(304)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(304)
Title:
Belikiri Bay, looking northerly. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Forbes' water colours were painted from the compound of the District Bungalow, of which this snapshot is at the extremity. It was a favourite haunt of the sea otter. Gordon S. Forbes M.C.S., author of 'Wild Life in Canara', illustrates in colour the Bay of Belikiri.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

306. Photo 146/1(305)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(305)
Title:
Belikeri [Belekeri] Bay. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Ankola is near the right edge. Indiamen of the H.E.I.C. would come around here from Karwar to load pepper -"The best in the World", so it was claimed. Gordon S. Forbes M.C.S., author of 'Wild Life in Canara', illustrates in colour the Bay of Belikiri.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

307. Photo 146/1(306)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(306)
Title:
Belikeri [Belekeri] Bay. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Much the same view as above (305). Ankola is near the right edge. Indiamen of the H.E.I.C. would come around here from Karwar to load pepper -"The best in the World", so it was claimed. Gordon S. Forbes M.C.S., author of 'Wild Life in Canara', illustrates in colo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

308. Photo 146/1(307)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(307)
Title:
Ancola, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Extract from Memoir of a Field Officer – “The fort of Ancola or Ancowla, before which we shortly appeared, was one of those posts, which if resolutely defended, was not to be reduced without the aid of artillery. It was in complete repair, consisting of a wall and towers of solid masonry, covere...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

309. Photo 146/1(308)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(308)
Title:
The Fort of Ancola, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Extract from Memoir of a Field Officer – “The fort of Ancola or Ancowla, before which we shortly appeared, was one of those posts, which if resolutely defended, was not to be reduced without the aid of artillery. It was in complete repair, consisting of a wall and towers of solid masonry, covere...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

310. Photo 146/1(309)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(309)
Title:
Gokarn Head, The North Canara Coast. A bold promontory between Karwar and Tadri. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography This is a prolongation of picture 310. A cove on the northern side of the headland accessible only with difficulty, there being not as much as a goat track to the bottom. On these sands were the pugs of two panthers, side by side.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item