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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 240 Collections and/or Records:

Sir Jamsetjee Bund, Poona, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/198
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Sir Jamsetjee Bund, an embankment or dike, in Poona, Indian in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Small Village Buffalo Cow, Southern Punjab, [India], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2838
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a small village buffalo cow standing in a courtyard with an Indian man in Punjab, [India]. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, 1902.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

"Sonia" - a Brown Murrah Buffalo, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2834
Scope and Contents

Photograph of "Sonia", a brown Murrah buffalo. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, 19[??].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Spare broadsheets: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1945

 File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/A/9
Scope and Contents Service Arts and Technical Organization (SATO) monthly newsletters for April, July and September 1945, including a number from October 1945 returned as address unknown with a list of these. There is also a copy of the Service Arts Organisation (SAO) Information notes No 1, August 1943. Report of joint meeting of SATO and TOCH at the Burma front held on 23 July 1945. There is also a copy of a job advert for an architect forwarded to Percy Johnson-Marshall in August 1945, as suitable for his...
Dates: 1943-1945

Spinning on Roadside near Dhenkanal [India], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/244
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two people spinning on the roadside near Dehnkanal in India in the early 20th century. One person is walking along side a series of posts holding two round skeins of fibre while one person watches.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Stone Bullocks, Ancient Temple, Kangra, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2637
Scope and Contents

Photograph of stone bullock statues at an ancient temple in Kangra, [India] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Story about how news of the Battle of Omdurman and Second Battle of Cawnpore was disseminated, September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/108
Scope and Contents

Story about how news of the Battle of Omdurman and Second Battle of Cawnpore, India, was disseminated collected from Mr Urquhart of Faithir Mhor Gearrloch [Am Faithir Mòr/Firemore, Geàrr Loch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. He states that the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, was heard about in Cairo, Egypt 'before it was known by the telegraph fifteen miles away'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909

Story about Nighean Mhic Gillechalum Rarsay, 23 March 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/9
Scope and Contents

Story probably collected from John Pearson or John MacPherson, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, Historical tale about NIghean Mhic Gillechaluim Rarsay or the daughter of MacLeod of Raasay/Ratharsair, who drowned a ship through witchcraft. Aged only 18, she was bled to death by her two brothers, both doctors, at her father's request, on the grounds that she was 'worse than Nic a Phie Cholasay' [MacPhee of Colbhasa/Colonsay. The brothers afterwards went to India.

Dates: 23 March 1871

Street Scene Making Macaroni, Broach Guzerat, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/219
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a street scene with a group of women making macaroni by hand in Broach Guzerat [Gujarat], India in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

[Stupa?], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1189
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a small [stupa?], a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics and/or ashes of the dead in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s