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131. Photo 146/1(257)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(257)
Title:
Pangim [Panjim], Goa, Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Pangim houses once the home of armiger Portuguese families [who] have descended in the social scale. Officials of the government live mostly in the colony of their own, on a nearby hill, and Goans of a better class likewise live in the suburbs. But many of these...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

132. Photo 146/1(442)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(442)
Title:
Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A cargo shed on the bunder or quay. The tree behind is a Gold Mohur, a beautiful sight in blossom.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

133. Photo 146/1(452)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(452)
Title:
Mangalore Port, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Loading 'Jumbo' cashew nuts (the largest and best) for the American market.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

134. Photo 146/1(459)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(459)
Title:
Mangalore Fort. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Tipu Sultan caused to be brought before him the fort commandant and his principal officers who had surrendered to the British and in the presence of his assembled troops had them blown from the muzzles of his great guns. He declaimed: "I, with 30,000 men besieged the place for 8 months and cou...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

135. Photo 146/1(468)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(468)
Title:
Jemulabad Fort. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
A 'baffler' wall with a ditch, excavated from the solid rock, before the second gate in the ascent. Twice captured by British and Indian troops, the last time from the robber Tim Naik who, with some of his following was executed (blown from the cannon) at Mangalore.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

136. Photo 146/1(469)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(469)
Title:
Jemulabad Fort. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Half way up the only approach to the fort proper. In military phrasing, a covert way. Twice captured by British and Indian troops, the last time from the robber Tim Naik who, with some of his following was executed (blown from the cannon) at Mangalore.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

137. Photo 146/1(470)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(470)
Title:
Jemulabad Fort. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
View from a dead end in the ramparts, with vertical drop to the plain below. Twice captured by British and Indian troops, the last time from the robber Tim Naik who, with some of his following was executed (blown from the cannon) at Mangalore.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

138. 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

139. 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

140. 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