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381. Photo 146/1(319)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(319)
Title:
Mirjan or Mirjee Fort, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Approaching the ruins of Mirjan Fort. A raised bund through the paddy fields. Thought to be the Musiris of the ancients. 7 miles from Tadri and between Rajamundrug and Kumpta. In 1772, when James Forbes (author of Oriental Memoirs) saw it, it was held by Hyder Ali Khaun, but was subsequently de...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

382. Photo 146/1(320)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(320)
Title:
Mirjan or Mirjee Fort, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Approach to the main gate and the ditch before it. Thought to be the Musiris of the ancients. 7 miles from Tadri and between Rajamundrug and Kumpta. In 1772, when James Forbes (author of Oriental Memoirs) saw it, it was held by Hyder Ali Khaun, but was subsequently deprived of any military valu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

383. Photo 146/1(343)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(343)
Title:
The Cemetery, Honowar/Onore. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
The oldest inscription here is that of the grave of Mrs Emma Townsend (1775), wife of the Chief of the English factor. Another commemorates Major Muirhead (1809). Lieut. Chas. Stewart was killed during the siege of 1783 and Lieut. Spottiswood Lawson died here in 1808(?). Both may be buried here....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

384. Photo 146/1(412)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(412)
Title:
Tidal Creek Ferries. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Beauty at the prow. Fare 1 piece (a farthing) for the going and coming.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

385. Photo 146/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(2)
Title:
Prongs Lighthouse serang and lascars, Bombay. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Bombay Harbour. The South-West Prongs - a wave swept lightghthouse is over a mile from Colaba Point and accessible over the rocks only at low tide. It is still not sited at the extremity of the shore. Completed in March 1874, its cost was computed at only the value o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

386. Photo 146/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(21)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, S.S. Rukmavati. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing passangers by boat at Elephanta, one of the daily calls on her service of the eastern islands and creek of Bombay Harbour. In the background is the southern shore of the Panwell or Ulwa Creek.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

387. Photo 146/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(24)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines), Elephanta. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing causeway on north side at low tide. The rock temples are in the neck between the two hills. The stone elephanta from which the place takes its name is just above high water mark but is here obscured by bushes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

388. Photo 146/1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(25)
Title:
Bombay Harbour (Eastern confines), Elephanta. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Landing causeway on north side at low tide. The rock temples are in the neck between the two hills. The stone elephanta from which the place takes its name is just above high water mark but is here obscured by bushes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

389. Photo 146/1(172)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(172)
Title:
Gheria Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The western sands and an aspect of the fort that neither the military commander of Boone's expedition nor Major Siersma of the Dutch would, in a professional sense, look at. They said that few of those who landed would ever get back to their ships. As the matter was not put to the test, opinion ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

390. Photo 146/1(225)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(225)
Title:
Savantwadi Town, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The old fort in Savantwadi. The chief now lives a modern house in the same locality. When Col. Bevan with his Pioneers was making the new highway through this state to the ?Bam Ghaut he called upon his ruler, than a woman and asked her if she would like the road t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item