India
Found in 237 Collections and/or Records:
Spare broadsheets: Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1945
Spinning on Roadside near Dhenkanal [India], 1870s-1930s
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.
Stone Bullocks, Ancient Temple, Kangra, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of stone bullock statues at an ancient temple in Kangra, [India] in the early 20th century.
Story about how news of the Battle of Omdurman and Second Battle of Cawnpore was disseminated, September 1909
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.
Story about Nighean Mhic Gillechalum Rarsay, 23 March 1871
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.
Street Scene Making Macaroni, Broach Guzerat, 1870s-1930s
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.
[Stupa?], 1870s-1930s
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.
Tame Chital, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a person feeding a tame Chital, the Indian Spotted deer, while another grazes on a bush nearby in [India] in the early/mid 20th century.
Tamil Man, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a Tamil man in traditional dress in the early 20th century.
Tap[p]'s Nose, Kasul, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of Tap[p]'s Nose in Kasul, [India]. A handwritten note on the slide states, 'Tap[p]'s Nose is the highest peak of the Kasauli ridge and overlooks Kalka.'