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281. Photo 146/1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(12)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Sassoon Dock. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
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

282. Photo 146/1(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(34)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Shewa. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Looking towards Kuranja Hill. The ruined building is supposed to be a Portuguese customs post. This may have been the frontier with the adjoining Moghul, later Mahratta territory.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

283. Photo 146/1(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(53)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Mandwa. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography On the far or southern shore of Bombay Harbour. A fishing village formerly in the territory of the chiefs of Kolaba. Not to be confused with Colaba on Bombay Island. The grave of an unknown European sailor, beneath and aged banian tree.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

284. Photo 146/1(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(54)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Mandwa. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
A weekend bathing camp, a stone's throw from the sea, by a clump of cactus. Sahib takes his ease whilst tiffin is being prepared. Mandwa Beacon. No negative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

285. Photo 146/1(89)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(89)
Title:
The Kankun Coast, Korlai. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
At the extreme southern end of Korlai are two acute triangles called in military parlance 'scissors', or at times 'hare's ears'. They stand like scissors open and abut to cut. The picture is taken from the triangle nearest the sea and across a dizzy abyss. The water is the inner anchorage and th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

286. Photo 146/1(90)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(90)
Title:
The Konkun Coast, Korlai. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Korlai, when held by the Moghals, had 70 cannons but to meet attack from its precipitous flanks, large stones were rolled down upon the assailants. The Portuguese held the place garrisoned and in full commision up to 1739. With Chaul it was handed over to the Mahrattas in pursuance of the 1740 t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

287. Photo 146/1(126)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(126)
Title:
Dapoli, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The deserted Garrison Church of Dapoli, 7 miles inland from Hurnai. In 1819 it was the Headquarters of the South Konkun Division. In the mid-19th century it was still a cantonment for an active battalion of Native Infantry and the Bombay Veteran Battalion. It was a house of discord and disconten...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

288. Photo 146/1(180)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(180)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Gates at the third and last guardroom into the upper courtyard and the Chief's residential quarters. These gates, presumably, are the very same that opened and shut for the Tulajee Angria and which were flung wide agape for Watson and Clive when they entered as ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

289. Photo 146/1(216)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(216)
Title:
Kochra, The Konkun Coast. A pole perch fixed into a ventilator of the sunken 'Chaldea'. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography It was not possible to salve her as the seawater was so heavily mixed with sand that the hull soon filled up with the sediment. A Swiss Family Robinson sort of place. On a serene Sunday afternoon and without warning the S.S. ‘Chaldea’ struck and rode over a submerg...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

290. Photo 146/1(233)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(233)
Title:
Riari [Redi] Fort, The Konkun Coast. The Khem Savant's palace. Presumably they lived at Savantwadi only after they were dispossessed of their coastline. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This stronghold was assaulted by a force under Sir Wm. Grant Keir. The stormers were from H.Ms 89th Foot. They were drawn up on the seashore opposite the breach made by the artillery, and under cover. The lower parts of ramparts were carried and the assault colu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item