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Bengal (India)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

A Cow of the Middle Breed East Indian Cattle Common in Bengal, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2835
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a cow and calf of the middle breed of East Indian cattle common in Bengal in a field in the 19th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Association of Building Technicians: Architect's Sectional Committee and Technical Committee, 1946-1954

 File
Identifier: PJM/ABT/A/2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten minute book for the Association of Building Technicians (ABT) Architect's Sectional Committee for 1946-1947.

Correspondence and reports relating to the ABT Technical Committee. The file includes a letter to Robert Joseph Gardner-Medwin from SR Gupta of Calcutta looking for a professor of architecture for the Bengal Engineering College dated 26 September 1952 .

Dates: 1946-1954

SATO Polytechnic file, 1945

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/D/1
Scope and Contents

Administrative details, course outlines, timetables and lecture notes for the Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) 12th Army Polytechnic, South East Asia Command (SEAC). This organised pre-release training across Burma. Includes a letter dated 18 January 1938 to Percy Johnson-Marshall from the Royal Institute of British Architects, telling him that he had passed his examination in professional practice, and an outline map of Bengal.

Dates: 1945

The Begum and Wee Macgregor - Bengal State Elephant with "Son", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1456
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Bengal state elephant, "The Begum" with son, "Wee Macgregor" next to a barn in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s