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Photo 146/1(162)

Record Id:

041-003049815

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003049654

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025648639.0x00093c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 146/1(162)

Title:

Ratnagiri Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters

Scope & Content:

The elephant steps leading down to the highway into the town and interior. The harbour is such only in the Fair Season, and the old jetty used by the ferry steamer passengers is away in the distance.

A place of little history though its walls, with 41 bastions, enclose an area of, perhaps, 2 square miles. The fort and district were surrendered to Colonel Kennedy and the Konkun Field Force on 31st May 1818 without opposition. In 1862 its 117 iron cannon were still lying about, obsolete and useless. Though the smaller stones from buildings have been taken for public works in the town, those of the ramparts are so high and crude as to make their removal an uneconomical proposition.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003049654
040-003049655
041-003049815

Is part of:

Photo 146 : Thomas Walters Venn Collection: Photographs of Western India. Photographer(s): Venn, Thomas Walters
Photo 146/1 : Thomas Walters Venn Collection: 'Snapshot views of the West Coast of India'. Photographer(s): Venn, Thomas Walters

Photo 146/1(162) : Ratnagiri Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters

Hierarchy:

032-003049654[0001]/040-003049655[0160]/041-003049815

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 146

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1930

End Date:

1939

Date Range:

1930-1939

Era:

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