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Calcutta (India)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Pair of Nukra or Potwar Bullocks, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/415
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a pair of Nukra or Potwar bullocks standing harnessed together in a field with a man standing next to them. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, February 1903.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Personal papers of and relating to Kenneth Murchison, 1770-1938

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-51/2/1
Scope and Contents 1 Reproduction of portrait by Raeburn (advertisement in Connoisseur, November 1938), with letter of Henry Raeburn to K. Murchison, 2 July 1793. The price of the portait was 18.18s.0d. + frame £3.10s.6d. 4 items. 2 Probate of will. 5 fols, vellum. With Extracts, 3 fols. 3 Five certificates in surgery, midwifery, etc., London, 1771-1772. 4 Matriculation of armorial bearings, Edinburgh, Lyon Office, 16 June 1788, with seal, in...
Dates: 1770-1938

Photograph of a watercolour of a man smoking, 1842

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/10/13
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a watercolour showing a man smoking hookah, annotated on plate "M. Pillans Matae Calcutta 1842".

Dates: 1842

"Phullo", a Superior Murrah Buffalo, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2821
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the superior Murrah buffalo, "Phullo" standing nexst to an Indian man in the early 20th century. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Pigs in Pens, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/554
Scope and Contents

Photograph of pigs in several pens on a farm behind a barn. Possibly part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, March 1903.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Potwar Bull, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/408
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Potwar bull with 'vide' measurements from the No. 1 Jhelem District in the early 20th century. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, May 190[2?].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Rabi Crop, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/217
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a field of a rabi crop in Calcutta, India on land reclaimed by the Waterfield bund. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, 1902.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Ravine Land Gatha Bandied, 6 years, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/218
Scope and Contents

Photograph of ravine land six years after it was reclaimed, gatha-bandied and planted with trees. Part of the Survey India Office, Calcutta, 1902.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Ravine Land Reclaimed, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/205
Scope and Contents

Photograph of ravine land 10 years after it had been reclaimed for cultivation purposes. Part of the Survey of the India Office, Calcutta in 1902.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Recently Born Calves, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/441
Scope and Contents

Photograph of four recently-born calves standing in a field with two boys holding their leads in the late 19th or early 20th century. Part of the Survey India Office, Calcutta, 19{??].

Dates: 1870s-1930s