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Photo 103(16)
- Record Id:
- 040-003047697
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003047681
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648639.0x0000f6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 103(16)
- Title:
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Muttum Point Lighthouse. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
General view of the lighthouse. Typescript note on reverse of print reads: 'Muttum lighthouse is an important landfall light, lying in the path of all steamers plying between Colombo and the ports on the west coast of India. It is a solid granite octagonal tower, 72 feet high, built in 1882. It warns mariners of the several rocky islets and the submerged Crocodile Reef close by'. The is almost at the southern tip of India, some 30 miles west of Cape Comorin.
Subjects = lighthouses
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003047681
040-003047697 - Is part of:
- Photo 103 : Lighthouses and lightships in India and Burma (Myanmar). Photographer(s): Sequeira, Ignatius
Photo 103(16) : Muttum Point Lighthouse. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003047681[0016]/040-003047697
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 103
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1920
- End Date:
- 1929
- Date Range:
- 1920s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Places:
- Muttum Point, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nādu, India, Asia