Genre: Landscape Photography Caption notes read: ' Sulekere, the largest tank in Mysore, and the second largest in Southern India, is 40 miles round, and its construction is assigned to the 11th or 12th century. The embankment is of no great length, but it is of stupendous width, height and str...
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across palace courtyard towards the Dasara Hall, with a function in progress. The courtyard is crowded with mounted state troops and other officials. Caption notes read: 'The view shown here is the east face of the palace which was burnt down in 189...
Genre: Architectural Photography Caption notes read: 'Was formerly known as the Lower Residency, but is now reserved for European guests of H.H. the Maharaja. The front portion of the building was erected in 1805, under Major Wilks and is of the Doric order of architecture. The old and handsome...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the buildings, built in castle form, with a large group seated in carriages in the foreground. Caption notes read: 'The Palace was built for H.H. the late Chama Rajendra Wodeyar Bahadur during his minority, and largely extended in his lifetime. I...
Genre: Architectural Photography Caption notes read: 'Designed and built by Col. (now Sir) Richard Sankey, 1864-1868, for the Mysore Chief Commissioner's offices. The Mysore Government now holds its offices in the building, and the Council of Regency meets weekly in the large central hall upsta...
Genre: Architectural Photography Caption notes read: 'Constructed in 1887, in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen- Empress of India, as a museum for exhibiting the arts, economic and other products of the country. It contains a library of ancient oriental literat...
The Wellesley Bridge, Seringapatam. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Caption notes read: 'Wellesley Bridge, over the Kaveri at Seringapatam, was erected in 1804, under the direction of Dewan Purnaiya, at the cost of 5½ lakhs, and named after the Governor-General, the Marquis of Wellesley. It is an interesting specimen of native a...
Genre: Architectural Photography Low range of buildings in European style. Caption notes read: 'The courts of the district and sessions judge, the sub judge, and the munsiff are held in these buildings, which are built in the new portion of the city named Chamarajpuram after his late Highness.'...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view from driveway, looking towards porte-cochère of the Residency. Caption notes read: 'Used as residency from the days of Sir Mark Cubbon, 1834, and enlarged by Mr Bowring and Sir Richard Meade. During the regime of Mr R.A. Dalyell, a wooden dining roo...
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the building, in mixed Indo- European style. Caption notes read: 'A picturesque two-storeyed ranged of bazaars, extending over a length of 1,050 feet, named after His Excellency Lord Lansdowne, Governor-General and Viceroy, to commemorate his ...
