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261. Photo 146/1(117)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(117)
Title:
Fort Goa, Hurnai, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Forts Goa or Gova, Kanka and Fathegadh [Fattegad], were constructed by the Hubshee of Janjira to blockade Severndrug, which he [had] been unable to capture. But the Angrias got too strong for him on land, and he had to abandon the project, and about 1723 Canojee Ang...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

262. Photo 146/1(128)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(128)
Title:
Boria Head, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
To early English navigators known as Cape Z. Lower slopes looking North East. The speargrass being cut by the women will be as succulent and sustaining for their scraggy cows as the coarse millet grown for themselves will be. A hard life and a short one, indeed for men and beast.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

263. Photo 146/1(138)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(138)
Title:
Gunpati Pula Temple. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography [Temple] on the seashore and at the foot of a barren hill (with a profusion of the 'Coxinea Exora' shrubs, very common on the waste lands hereabouts). It lies between Jaigad and Waroda (Tiveri).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
24 December 1934
Extent:
1 item

264. Photo 146/1(147)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(147)
Title:
Tiveri, "Columbus" wreck. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography An anchor marks the spot where she struck. Just above high water mark, at the foot of the hill on the left, is the grave of two Austrian women and the husband of one of them. Here occured the wreck of the ship "Columbus", 700 tons, Nacodah Syed Bashumper. She left...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

265. Photo 146/1(151)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(151)
Title:
Mirya Bay, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 3 miles from Ratnagiri. An of the sea that makes the peninsular of Ratnagiri headland. Like Jaigad Head it affords sufficient shelter from the S.W. monsoon for the cargo cum passenger steamers to call there. With the improvement of land communication with Bombay, th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

266. Photo 146/1(152)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(152)
Title:
Mirya Bay, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Another view. The point is Mirya Head but also known as Dongri (Little Hill) and as Flagstaff Hill. The approach of the steamers being signalled from there. 3 miles from Ratnagiri. An of the sea that makes the peninsular of Ratnagiri headland. Like Jaigad Head it ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

267. Photo 146/1(161)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(161)
Title:
Ratnagiri Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A place of little history though its walls, with 41 bastions, enclose an area of, perhaps, 2 square miles. The fort and district were surrendered to Colonel Kennedy and the Konkun Field Force on 31st May 1818 without opposition. In 1862 its 117 iron cannon were stil...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

268. Photo 146/1(163)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(163)
Title:
Ratnagiri Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The principal (south-west) bastion strides the headland like a warhorse, upon which sits the harbour guiding light like a knight with heavy visor closed. A place of little history though its walls, with 41 bastions, enclose an area of, perhaps, 2 square miles....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

269. Photo 146/1(164)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(164)
Title:
Ratnagiri, Kalbadevi Cove. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography On the way back from Mirya Bay to Ratangiri Bay. Commander Taylor I.N. reporting in the 1860s, suggested this bay could be made into a protected harbour for coasting and deep sea vessels for the development of the Kolhapore and Satara States.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

270. Photo 146/1(171)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(171)
Title:
Toolsoonda Cove, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography An almost embayed inlet opposite Moosakazi. It is said that the European pirates who operated in these waters between, say, 1698 and 1720, careened and provisioned their ships here. Avery, Robt. Glover in "Resolution", Bowen - "Speedy Return", "Prosperous", Captain ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item