Calcutta (India)

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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.

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

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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?]

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

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Photograph of the Hansi cow, "Kankatti" standing in a paddock in the early 20th century. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, 1904.

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Photograph of 'land trenched with night-soil under the shallow system, with trenches open for the deposit of night-soil. A young plantation of trees on land privately trenched.'

Scope and Contents The collection consists of twenty-six microfiche copies of letters. The first three (1910-1920) are letters written by Lawrence Hogg in Scotland before he went to India and the last two (1921-1923) are letters of Caroline M. Dixon before she married. The remaining letters record the Hoggs' many encounters with missionaries and Indian Church leaders, Hogg's views on independence, the contacts the Hoggs had with relatives in India and Upper Egypt, and offer a portrait of Christian work in...

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Photograph of "Lord Ormond", a pedigree 6 year old Berkshire boar. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, March 1903.

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Photogravure of Macpherson Lake in Allahabad which was created from a reclaimed ravine with an extreme width. Part of the Survey India Office, Calcutta, 1902. Slide developed by Flatters, Milborne and McKechnie Ltd, Manchester.

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Photograph of 'a portion of the main bund of the Macpherson Lake at Allahabad.' The text beneath the image notes that there are weirs at each end to prevent fish escaping and that the lake water can be used for irrigation or drained off and the land cultivated. Part of the Survey of India Office, Calcutta, 1902.