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361. Photo 146/1(444)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(444)
Title:
Office of the Bombay Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. at Mangalore. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Mangalore has an important export trade in coffee, pepper, cardamons and, above all, in cashew nuts, the most and best of which go to the United States. The Clan Line give a direct service to Europe. So, too, the British India and the Bombay S.N. Co. (with trans...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

362. Photo 146/1(64)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(64)
Title:
The Konkun Coast of Western India, Angria's Kolaba. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Alibagh (Garden of Allah) or Angria's Kolaba. Whilst these arch pirates had a durbar hall and other amenities at Alibagh, their residence was within the ramparts of Kolaba, just off the foreshore and an island at high tides. Forbes' Oriental Memoirs and Downing'...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

363. Photo 146/1(260)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(260)
Title:
St Monica's. Velha Goa [Old Goa] Churches. Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The only nunnery in Old Goa. Completed in 1606. All religious orders suppressed in 1838. In 1935 there was still a certain amount of litter about the place of indicative of its former use. The wooden turntable at the portico and the Portaria de fora are still th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

364. Photo 146/1(262)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(262)
Title:
Church of St Paulo in Old Goa. Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography It has long corridors and staircases with murals depicting the torments of hell. A night spent here, high up neat the roof, with a small plate of fish curry and a lean sallow priest for company and a hurricane lantern for lighting a vast barn like hall was an ee...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

365. Photo 146/1(291)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(291)
Title:
Excursion to the Yaanna [Yana] Rocks. Karwar, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography "As I rode from one green hill to another, I began to catch glimpses at intervals of clusters of sharp spires and dark pinnacles rising above the trees. I seemed to be approaching some lofty abbey in the wilderness, of vast and irregular dimensions. At least I came ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

366. Photo 146/1(292)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(292)
Title:
Excursion to the Yaanna [Yana] Rocks. Karwar, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography "As I rode from one green hill to another, I began to catch glimpses at intervals of clusters of sharp spires and dark pinnacles rising above the trees. I seemed to be approaching some lofty abbey in the wilderness, of vast and irregular dimensions. At least I came ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

367. Photo 146/1(293)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(293)
Title:
Excursion to the Yaanna [Yana] Rocks. Karwar, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography "As I rode from one green hill to another, I began to catch glimpses at intervals of clusters of sharp spires and dark pinnacles rising above the trees. I seemed to be approaching some lofty abbey in the wilderness, of vast and irregular dimensions. At least I came ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

368. Photo 146/1(335)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(335)
Title:
A freshwater brook between Kumpta and Honowar. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography In a clear shallow pool just above where it met the sea were three brightly banded sea snakes. Yellow and blue, black and yellow.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

369. Photo 146/1(336)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(336)
Title:
View across the estuary. Honowar/Onore, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The fort, of which there is hardly one stone upon another, was on the slight rise in mid-picture. ‘Oriental Memoirs’, James Forbes, has a sketch of it as left by the siege of 1783. The District Bungalow now stands there.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

370. Photo 146/1(363)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(363)
Title:
Bednore, Kundapure (between Bhatkal and Mulpy). The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The road junction of North and South Canara before the ascent of the ghaut. It was the coastal base of General Mathews (1783) when he marched up the the Hyder Ghaut to seize the fortress of Bednore, which contained a great part of Tipu Sultan's treasure. The ultim...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item