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461. Photo 146/1(348)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(348)
Title:
Graves of three Englishmen by the roadside from the bunder to the town of Bhatkal. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Now a small and rather squalid townlet was formerly of importance. The Portuguese were the first Europeans here. Purchese, the English merchant, was here in 1613, and others followed without establishing a settlement until the Courteen Company, rivals of the original East India Company. Three of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

462. Photo 146/1(389)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(389)
Title:
Wreck of the S.S. 'Dayavati' of the B.S.N.Co. Ltd. Mulpy Rocks, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
On her usual call at Mulpy, in a dense morning fog, she missed the entrance to the haven by a few hundred yards and went on the rocks. Though proceeding at slow speed at the time she struck, efforts to get the ship free were unavailing. The sea was calm and passengers were landed in the starbo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
29 September 1938
Extent:
1 item

463. Photo 146/1(390)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(390)
Title:
Wreck of the S.S. 'Dayavati' of the B.S.N.Co. Ltd. Mulpy Rocks, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
On her usual call at Mulpy, in a dense morning fog, she missed the entrance to the haven by a few hundred yards and went on the rocks. Though proceeding at slow speed at the time she struck, efforts to get the ship free were unavailing. The sea was calm and passengers were landed in the starbo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
29 September 1938
Extent:
1 item

464. Photo 146/1(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(19)
Title:
Shipbreaking Yard, Bombay. Name of steamer unrecorded. The one on the right is the Royal Indian Marine Ship 'Clive'. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
The Dharookhana, site of the H.E.I.C's gunpowder factory at Mazagon, the foreshore where ships were run aground for breaking up. This work was done entirely by sledge hammers in the hands of 'ghattis' or men from the Western Ghauts, more sinewy and powerful than their compatriots of Bombay City.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

465. Photo 146/1(394)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(394)
Title:
Fishing scenes a little south of Mulpy [Malpe]. The South Canara Coast, Madras Presidency. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Golden sands and a gentle sea. And smiles.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

466. Photo 146/1(395)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(395)
Title:
Fishing scenes a little south of Mulpy [Malpe]. The South Canara Coast, Madras Presidency. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Golden sands and a gentle sea. And smiles.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

467. Photo 146/1(396)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(396)
Title:
Fishing scenes a little south of Mulpy [Malpe]. The South Canara Coast, Madras Presidency. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Golden sands and a gentle sea. And smiles.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

468. Photo 146/1(433)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(433)
Title:
Mudibidri Temple, on the road from Mangalore to Udipi. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Tombs of Jain Priests.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

469. Photo 146/1(202)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(202)
Title:
A Hindu chhatri memorial of cremation of a man of a military caste and the sati of his widow, on the foreshore or Malwan. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Following the operations of Sir Lionel Smith in the Konkun in 1815 the coastal towns and fortresses of Malwan, Riari and Vengurla were ceded by the Rajah of Kolhapore in perpetuity to the East India Company. Detachments of the Bombay Artillery than occupied Sinnadrug and Rajkote. The infantry ma...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

470. Photo 146/1(428)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(428)
Title:
On the road from Mangalore to Udipi. Karal, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
Scope & Content:
The Gumpta or Gautama Buddha in the courtyard of the Jain temple here. There are but two such colossal figures in Hindustan. The other is at Venoor also in South India.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item