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181. Photo 146/1(148)

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Photo 146/1(148)
Title:
Tiveri, "Columbus" wreck. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography On the rocks in the foreground were washed up many bodies from the wreck. Here occured the wreck of the ship "Columbus", 700 tons, Nacodah Syed Bashumper. She left Jeddah 20th July 1862 laden with salt, dates, wool, ghee and 25 Arab horses. She had a crew of 40 an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

182. Photo 146/1(150)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(150)
Title:
Tiveri Sands, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography A little Indian mother and her brood. They were going to spend the day with grandma, so they said. But the old lady on the left may be a servant.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

183. Photo 146/1(176)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(176)
Title:
Viziadrug Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This bastion commands the circular passage to the second guard gate. The view is looking north to the other bank of the River Wagotan estuary. Watson's fleet anchored abreast of the fort here. The fighting ships employed here were: Royal Navy - Kent 70 guns, Cum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

184. Photo 146/1(177)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(177)
Title:
Visiadrug Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This bastion commands the circular passage to the second guard gate. The view is looking north to the other bank of the River Wagotan estuary. Watson's fleet anchored abreast of the fort here. The fighting ships employed here were: Royal Navy - Kent 70 guns, Cum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

185. Photo 146/1(191)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(191)
Title:
Konkeshwar [Kunkeshwar], The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Path from the temple on the cliffs down to the beach. 3.5 miles from Viziadrug. The tradition is that a Mohamedan merchand saved from a wreck on the rocks below in thankfulness left funds to build a mosque here. On returning later and seeing a Hindu temple, he cut his throat.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

186. Photo 146/1(219)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(219)
Title:
Vengurla, the Verdant. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Formerly in Savantwadi State, now a talug of Ratnagiri District. 220 miles south of Bombay. The old Dutch factory at Vengurla. The senior merchants had villas outside the walls, but of these a casual search found no trace.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

187. Photo 146/1(222)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(222)
Title:
Vengurla Head, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The rubble breakwater of the jetty is seen at the base of the hill well protected from the N.W. monsoon. Site of the Tembe Battery already mentioned (overleaf). The harbour guiding light and flagstaff are now there. The Traveller’s Bungalow is on the lower point,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

188. Photo 146/1(229)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(229)
Title:
Riari Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Bastions of main gateway where most of the casualties occurred. In the morning after the first assault two British officers got themselves hoisted through one of the embrasures quite ready to surrender. Writing in 1826 Capt. Jervis, Bombay Engineers, said this was the only one between Bombay an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

189. Photo 146/1(269)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(269)
Title:
Sadashevgad [Fort], The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The bartizan (overhanging turret) at the highest point of the fort. After its capture from Tipoo Sultan the garrison was found by the Bombay Army. The European gunners lived in the fort; the Sepoy line being at Chiticul, a mile away, where the chowki for confine...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

190. Photo 146/1(272)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(272)
Title:
Sadashevgad, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Part of the ramparts of Sadashevgad with a domed look-out post at the angle. It could also cover teh flanks of the curtain walls with musketry fire. On the north bank of the Kalavati river. It was built only in 1715 by the Rajah of Sonda as a block of between ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item