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421. Photo 146/1(384)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(384)
Title:
Mulpy, the port for Udipi, a large town two miles inland. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Looking from the lighthouse island towards the mainland at Mulpy Bunder. Mulpy Rocks from a breakwater in the 'fair season' to the anchorage for the coasting steamers. Country craft can go closer inshore, but there is still a shallow bar to bar to be crossed befor...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

422. Photo 146/1(453)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(453)
Title:
St Paul's Church of England, erected in 1846. Mangalore, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
There has been no permanent chaplain there for many years, but a visiting Padre would come about once a month. The congregation would be very small, even though nonconformists, Scotch Presbyterian members of the foreign community took advantage of the clergyman's ministrations.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

423. Photo 146/1(462)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(462)
Title:
Inscription on the grave of General Carnac at Mangalore Cemetery. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
The whole of the epitaph was not covered by the camera, but the concluding lines state he was aged 84 and that - "He was the Friend of Clive."
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

424. Photo 146/1(115)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(115)
Title:
Severndrug [Suvarnadurg] Island Fort, The Konkun Coast. The Hunaman. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The island fortress of the pirate chief Tulajee Angria. It is 8 acres in extent and has a steep well and several water reservoirs. There are rooms under each bastion and extensive foundations of 'old palaces'. In 1862 the ramparts were still in good repair but the gateway was in ruins. The photo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
November 1934
Extent:
1 item

425. Photo 146/1(134)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(134)
Title:
Jaigad Fort, The Konkun Coast. Gateway into the moat. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Just without the fort walls is a pit, the bottom reached by a flight of steps outside it. This arena, so to speak, is that (text covered by photograph) prisoners were (text covered by photograph). Jaigad, Jyghur and Zyghur 100 miles from Bombay on the south b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

426. Photo 146/1(165)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(165)
Title:
Ratnagiri, The Konkun Coast. Tomb of Theebaw, King of Lower Burma. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Theebaw, King of Lower Burma, was brought here in exile in 1886, and died here in 1916. With him came his two queens, his daughters, and an extensive and picturesque suite. The latter in time all drifted away, and at the end, only locally engaged staff were employed. The senior queen died first,...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

427. Photo 146/1(278)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(278)
Title:
Interior of Sunkeri Church at Old Karwar. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography It is close by the site where the English factory once stood, as one old account describes it - "a stately mansion", but there is now no trace of it. When after many vicissitudes and armed conflicts with the Soonda rajah, the Hon'ble Company withdrew they presen...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

428. Photo 146/1(288)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(288)
Title:
H.M.I.S 'Hindustan' 1930. Karwar, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Kona Point and flagstaff on the right. Modern Karwar is among the casuarina plantations. The bungalows of Government officials extend along the bright of the bay.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930
Extent:
1 item

429. Photo 146/1(290)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(290)
Title:
Karwar Head, Lady Bay. Karwar, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
A picnic. The Parsee gentleman in the picture claimed to be of piratical stock, from a Kooli forebear of Gujarat. Detailed description of Karwar Head can be found overleaf.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

430. Photo 146/1(302)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(302)
Title:
Angediva, The North Canara Coast. The reputed grave of Sir Abram Shipman. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
It is said it at one time had an inscription, but it is no longer there. The marble cross was in pieces and was propped up for this picture. By the time more positive orders arrived from Lisbon to admit the English to Bombay, of Shipman and his 400 men only Ensign Cooke and 117 other ranks were ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item