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131. 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

132. 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

133. 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

134. Photo 146/1(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(29)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Panwell Creek. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking from Belapur towards the Panwell shore. A small launch of the B.S.N. Co. Ltd. at anchor. In 1910 the ferry steamer Godaveri was wrecked on a reef that projected into midstream, the mark buoy having shifted.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

135. Photo 146/1(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(72)
Title:
Alibagh, The Cemetery. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Graves of sailors lost in the wreck of a French ship. May be the sailing ship 'Montpelier' wrecked here in 1876.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

136. Photo 146/1(175)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(175)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
An embrasure of the lower battery adapted for the use of passengers by the ferry steamers to and from Bombay or to ports south as far as Panjim in Goa. The 'Ticket Master', in the opening, on perhaps £3 a month is a man of some local importance.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

137. Photo 146/1(221)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(221)
Title:
Vengurla, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Another view of the Dutch factory. The old cannon in the foreground had no identifying foundry or national marks or cyphers. Formerly in Savantwadi State, now a talug of Ratnagiri District. 220 miles south of Bombay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

138. Photo 146/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(15)
Title:
Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The Frere Road offices of the Old Bombay Steam Nagn: Co: Ltd. This building was almost destroyed during the Second Warld War in the explosion of amunitions ship lying in Princes Dock, in the near vicinity. The photograph dates from about 1910. Bullock carts have...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

139. Photo 146/1(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(61)
Title:
Bombay Harbour. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The only landing place on the island of Kenheri. In the days when it was an Angrian stronghold it was commanded by two bastions, one of which is in the picture. The island Angria's customs post from which his galleys went out to demand a 'chouth' from all passing craft not strong enough to defy ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

140. Photo 146/1(407)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(407)
Title:
Udipi Creek near its harbour at Mulpy Bunder. Mulpy, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item