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411. Photo 146/1(331)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(331)
Title:
Rajamundrug to Kumpta. The North Canara Coast Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography A breezy day among coconut palms, where life is at its simplest and probably not fifty rupees in cash in the whole village.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

412. Photo 146/1(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(59)
Title:
Bombay Harbour, Kenheri Island Lighthouse. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Until ceded to the bay E.I. Company by the Angria Chief of Kolaba in 1828 the Bombay Government had no rights on this island. The first light (1852) was established before the employment of the ships 'Pilgrim' and 'Christian'. It was than hurriedly demolished before it could again be mistaken fo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

413. Photo 146/1(143)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(143)
Title:
Jaigad and Tiveri, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
A fisherman's boat, one rise only from the dug out canoe. Even so duly registered and recorded at the district headquarters of Ratnagiri.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

414. Photo 146/1(446)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(446)
Title:
The little tin shack at which the migrant buys ticket for the wide open space. Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography There is a great migration of the younger generation from this place, especially to the large Christian community. The educational advantages are exceptional both for Roman Catholics and Protestants (Lutheran Mission) and Government secular schools and colleges.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

415. Photo 146/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(6)
Title:
Unattended light to mark a shoal off Butcher Island, former quaranteen station & naval establishment. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
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 of one average sized ship and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

416. Photo 146/1(167)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(167)
Title:
Ratnagiri, The Konkun Coast. Bungalow in which princess of Burma was living in 1935 with her husband and children. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography One of the princesses of Burma had married one of the local Indians employed at the palace built here for the royal family. She was told that if she did not return to Burma with her mother and sisters she would forfeit her pension. So she went, but came back to ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

417. Photo 146/1(173)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(173)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. An extension of the sandy beach looking away from the fort. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

418. Photo 146/1(234)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(234)
Title:
Riari [Redi] Fort, The Konkun Fort. Graves of 11 British soldiers buried within the fort. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
In the assault 3 Europeans and 5 Indian sepoys were killed, but among the 25 wounded perhaps other soldiers died of their wounds. For a short while a company of the 89th remained as a garrison, after which Riari became a sanatorium for British troops. This may account for the additional graves.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

419. Photo 146/1(314)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(314)
Title:
The Mirjan river from a bastion of Rajamundrug Fort. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Mirjan is some 3 or 4 miles up stream, on a southward bend of the river. Tadri, among the trees commences just inside the bar. In the 2nd Mysore War a detachment of Bombay N.I., under Lieut. Ross, burnt what was said to be intended for a 50 gun ship, building on t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

420. Photo 146/1(327)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(327)
Title:
View from the southern ramparts of Rajamundrug looking towards Kumpta. Mirjan is a little inland and undiscernible. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography An open roadstead in Fair Season only, during which it is served by the cargo-cum-passenger steamers of the B.S.N. Co. Ltd before the railway came into S.M.C. cotton was brought here from above ghaut to be pressed and exported, of which the derelict buildings once o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item