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Photo 66/5

Record Id:: 040-003044648
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-003044336
MDARK:: ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000c49
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Format:: ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 66/5
Title:: 'Fisheries Dept., Madras'. Photographer(s): Doss and Bros, M.
Scope & Content:: Paper-bound scrapbook, measuring 360 x 290 mm, containing photographs, postcards, half-tone reproductions and plans. The cover is badly torn and the inside pages dog-eared. The title is handwritten on a white label on the front cover. The whole collection records the work of the Fisheries Department in South India and includes views of architecture, fishermen, the fishing industry, fish, boats and plans of a proposed curing yard, the Government Fish Farm at Sunkesula and Vellore Fort.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Hierarchy Record Ids:: 032-003044336
040-003044648
Is part of:: Photo 66 : Miscellaneous photographs of India, principally connected with public works, civil engineering, town planning and architecture.

Photo 66/5 : 'Fisheries Dept., Madras'. Photographer(s): Doss and Bros, M.
Contains:: Photo 66/5(1) : Madras Marine Aquarium, front view. Photographer: Doss and Bros, M.
Photo 66/5(2) : Madras Marine Aquarium, a view of the interior. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(3) : Trawler, 'Lady Goschen', outside view. Photographer: Royal Studio
Photo 66/5(4) : Trawler, 'Lady Goschen', inside view (Laboratory). Photographer: Royal Studio
Photo 66/5(5) : Deep water fishing experiment, Mopad Reservoir. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(6) : Mangalore fish curing yard, showing brick and mortar buildings (fish spread out for drying). Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(7) : Mangalore fish curing yard, closer view (fish heaped). Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(8) : Surface layer of young oysters on a natural oyster bank. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(9) : Oysterlings between tide marks. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(10) : Full grown oysters below the low tide level. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(11) : A pearl fishery boat engaged in diving for pearl oysters. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(12) : The pearling fleet on the bank with attendant patrolling boat, 1927. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 66/5(13) : Public prospecting for pearls in the pearl fishery camp, 1926 fishery. Photographer: Unknown

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Hierarchy:: 032-003044336[0005]/040-003044648
Container:: View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 66
Record Type (Level):: File
Extent:: 13 items
Digitised Content:
Languages:: Not applicable
Scripts:: Not applicable
Techniques:: Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Start Date:: 1920
End Date:: 1929
Date Range:: 1920s
Era:: CE
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Physical Characteristics:: Dimensions: 60 mm x 95 mm to 155 mm x 205 mm.
Source of Acquisition:: Unknown provenance.
Material Type:: Photographs
Legal Status:: Not Known
Names:: Doss and Bros