Chándá Walls. Photographer: Ritter, Molkenteller and Company
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Photograph of Chándá Walls. Taken in the 1870s by Ritter, Molkenteller & Co., this print is from an album entitled 'Views in India and Bangladesh', part of the Temple Collection. Text accompanying the photograph reads, 'The bastion in the foreground is one out of the 46 bastions which occur ...
Southern entrance to the Residency at Bhuj. Photographer: Unknown
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Photograph of the residency at Bhuj, Gujarat, taken by an unknown photographer during the late 1870s. The residency was situated outside the city to the south-west, on the Mandvi road, and was the home of the British Government’s political envoy to Bhuj. This is a view of the southern entrance, ...
Marias in dancing costume. Photographer: Ritter, Molkenteller and Company.
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Photographers' blindstamp on mount. Group portrait of dancers and musicians, with letterpress caption label on mount: 'The Marias are an aboriginal race inhabiting the eastern highlands of Chándá; they are passionately fond of dancing and their costume is very quaint. Peacock feathers, straw ro...