Inland from Bhatkal. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Portrait Photography The little daughters of the station-master at Sagar the rail head of a branch line of the Mysore State Railways. The nearest railway connection for Bhatkal.
The Quays. Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography The quays from the sandpit. The sandpit is kept parallel with the inner shore, at an almost uniform width of 350 yards or so by the Gurpur River. It stretches northward for, perhaps, 1.5 miles, to Sultan’s Battery where the river takes a sharp turn inland.
Capstan for operating the lock gates. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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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.
Bombay Harbour (Panwell Creek), Belapur. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Little more than a fortified Customs post. Probably intended only to control the movements of small country craft. Note the topee as worn by a lady of Bombay in the year 1914.
Bombay Harbour, Dharamtar Creek, Palee. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Landscape Photography A hill fort captured from the Mahrattas is 1919 by Colonel Prother, Bombay Army. On that occasion the sound of his mortars (cannons were of little use at that elevation) could be heard in Bombay. The vicinity is noted locally for its hot sulphur springs, at one of w...