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381. 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

382. 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

383. 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

384. Photo 146/1(347)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(347)
Title:
Bhatkal Head, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Another view of the creek. The town is about 2.5 miles up the estuary and can be reached by freighted boats of the smaller size and on the tide. Bhatkal. An open fair weather roadstead. A port project was mooted to cut the narrow isthmus behind the headland and link up with the nearest railhea...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

385. Photo 146/1(438)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(438)
Title:
Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
The craft astern is a sea-going buggalow. She is engaged in making a new suit of sails. This is usually done under the advice of a local expert sailmaker.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

386. Photo 146/1(94)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(94)
Title:
The Konkun Coast, Korlai. Main courtyard and the largest open space within the fortress proper. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The Portuguese gained their footing on the Bombay coast at the expense of the tributary kings of the Delhi empire. When the intruders settles at Chaul, the opposite side of the river was still held for the kings of Ahmednagar. They built the fortress of Korlai -...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

387. Photo 146/1(195)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(195)
Title:
Sindadrug [Sindhudurg] Fort, The Konkun Coast. Sally port unto the women's sea bathing beach. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Shivajee placed Malwan on the map when he built (mostly by artizans lent by the Portuguese) Sindadrug [Sindhudurg] - The Fortress of the Seas - as the first step to raising a navy with which to pursue the same tactics of raid and plunder by sea as has worked so well in his forays on land against...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

388. Photo 146/1(196)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(196)
Title:
Fort Sindadrug, Malwan. The Konkun Coast. View from the main gate looking towards the town. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Fort Padamgad, what is left of it, is the last collection of rocks nearest the shore. (Continued from previous leaf) Wide scattered field of reefs and islets, the nearest of which is Padamgarh where was Shivajee's naval depot. Time has since pushed over his masonry ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

389. Photo 146/1(274)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(274)
Title:
The Kalavati river running past the base of the fort. Sadashevgad, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography It is named so (the Black river) because of its sombre complexion. At the point pictured it is, of course, tidal, being within a short distance of its embouchure into Karwar Bay. On the north bank of the Kalavati river. It was built only in 1715 by the Rajah of So...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

390. Photo 146/1(311)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(311)
Title:
Gokarn Head, The North Canara Coast. A bold promontory between Karwar and Tadri. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A cove on the northern side of the headland accessible only with difficulty, there being not as much as a goat track to the bottom. The rocky barricade at the other end of the cove.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item