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Calcutta (India)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Great Banyan Tree, Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, [India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2639
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Great Banyan tree in the Botanical Gardens in Calcutta, India in the early 20th century. The image show the sprawling width of the tree in the background and its reflection in a lake in the foreground.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Great Banyan Tree, Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, [India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2640
Scope and Contents

Illustration of the Great Banyan tree in the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, [India] in the 19th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

"Hallowes" - a Sanhiwal [Sahiwal] Cow, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1299
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Sanhiwal [Sahiwal] cow, "Hallowes" standing in a paddock in the early 20th century. Part of the Survey of the India Office, Calcutta in 19[?]

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Head of Ravine Leading into the Macpherson Lake, [India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2519
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the head of the ravine leading into the Macpherson Lake showing the Waterfield bund and sluice. The image also shows the land that has been, and has not been, reclaimed by means of the bund. Part of the survey of India Office, Calcutta, 1902.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Housing diagram for the ABT, 1946-1947

 File
Identifier: PJM/ABT/B/1
Scope and Contents This file contains a folder entitled Housing diagram for the ABT containing research for the diagram: notes, mixed correspondence and Ministry of Works forms and circulars. There is a set of minutes for the Association of Building Technicians and Association of Scientific Workers Joint Committee on Housing, dated 24 January 1947 . There is also a personal letter to Sris Chandra Chatterjee in Calcutta, dated 10 August 1947, concerning...
Dates: 1946-1947

Illustrating a quick method of making irrigation beds. Survey of India Office, Calcutta., 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/164
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two men demonstrating a quick method of making irrigation beds in Calcutta, India.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

India Cattle, Calcutta - Wallace, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1285
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man driving a wagon pulled bya team of India cattle in Calcutta in the early 20th century. The name 'Wallace' is written on the slide, but it is unclear if one of the men in the photograph is [Robert] Wallace or if he is the one that took it.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Jain Temple, Calcutta [India], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/213
Scope and Contents

Photoraph of a Jain Temple in Calcutta, [India] in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Kahlur Bullock, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/406
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Kahlur bullock. The text beneath the image says to 'note the short face and wide forehead with abrupt sharp pointed horns and the peculiar straightness of the back.' Part of the Survey of India Office at Calcutta, May 190[2?]

Dates: 1870s-1930s

"Kanja" - A Murrah Buffalo Bull, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2820
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Murrah buffalo bull, "Kanja". Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, 1904.

Dates: 1870s-1930s