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10 Jan. 1912: arrival and departure. Lord Hardinge leaving HMS Medina after luncheon on board.

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135 x 205 mm. No. 1059.

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126 x 160 mm View from a hillside looking E. across part of the town towards the harbour. Frith series photograph.

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251 x 200 mm. View looking down on baled cotton stacked on the Cotton Green at Colaba (see Y30222A/11) with a row of unidentified buildings beyond and shipping in the harbour in the background.

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View looking north along Rampart Row towards the Floral Fountain and the junction with Hornby Row. Compare with Y3022GG/8. This view is taken a few years earlier, at some time in the late 1890s: immediately opposite the Floral Fountain are the buildings occupied until 1896 by the Cathedral High School. These premises were taken over and enlarged by the Oriental Life Assurance Company and in this print can be seen clad in scaffolding and without the domed roof.

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Matron, Miss Davis.

Scope and Contents A 16mm, colour cinefilm, without sound.0 - 24sec. Interior scenes (in a marquee) at an Air India meal to celebrate J.R.D Tata re-enacting his first Karachi-Ahmedabad-Bombay flight of 1932 - on 15th October 1962, Bombay airport. Guests include Mrs Thelma Tata (wife of J.R.D Tata). Many of the women are carrying red fans with Air India route maps on them.24sec - 33sec. Man driving a cattle drawn two-wheeled open cart with ‘Burmah Shell Aviation Service’ written in yellow...

Scope and Contents 247 x 194 mm. View looking west across Bombay Green towards St Thomas’ Cathedral. The building, a mixture of the classic and Gothic style (Maclean, p 229) was originally constructed in 1715-18 on the site of an abortive earlier attempt to build a church for the citizens of Bombay. It appears to have had no specific dedication but was occasionally referred to as ‘St James’. In 1814 Bombay became an Archdeaconry of the See if Calcutta and the church was dedicated to St Thomas. The See of...

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245 x 194 mm. A similar view to Y3022A/5, but taken from a slightly different angle and from further away. More of the Green is visible in the foreground and one can also look directly down Church Gate Street at the right. This photograph is reproduced in Edwardes, vol 3, p 243 and there dated 1864.

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242 x 195 mm. Similar to Y3022A/6 but taken from slightly further away, from near the Town Hall steps.

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250 x 297 mm. View from the foreshore at Chowpatty looking southwards out into Black Bay, with dhows moored near the beach and piles of timber stacked in the foreground. The view appears to be looking towards the place from which Y3022A/17 was photographed. Reproduced in Edwardes, vol 2, p 145, captioned ‘Lakri Bandar, Chaupati 1864’.

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216 x 156 mm. (p. 3).

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310 x 188 mm. View from the lighthouse looking over the rooftops northwards along Upper Colaba Road. Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd no. 2216.

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251 x 199 mm. A view from the hillside, with trees in the foreground, looking over the roofs of bungalows towards the sea. The angle of view looks approximately NE, with the spit of land on which is situated Sewri Fort visible in the distance. A very similar view, probably taken on the same occasion, is reproduced in Edwardes, vol 3, p 43, and is there dated 1860.

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250 x 199 mm. Similar view to Y3022A/1, but with more vegetation in foreground.

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239 x 181 mm. View looking out into the harbour with small sailing boats moored in the foreground.

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110 x 80 mm. Daylight version of Y3022V/99.

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110 x 80 mm.

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110 x 80 mm.

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290 x 235 mm. Probably by Bourne & Shepherd.

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110 x 80 mm.

Scope and Contents 247 x 199 mm. A view looking northwards across the Babula Tank towards the Jamsetji Jijibhoy Hospital. The Grant Medical College is visible at the left. The buildings are of a similar style and were built during the same period. The main building of the hospital contained 18 wards with a total of 237 beds for the relief of the native poor of all classes. The East India Company paid half the costs, the rest being supplied by the merchant and philanthropic Sir Jamsetji Jijibhoy (1783-1859)....

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78 x 53 mm.

Scope and Contents 249 x 198 mm. View from the upper storey of a building on Sheik Meman Street looking across the road towards the Jumma Musjid or Great Mosque, situated a short distance NW of the Crawford Market. Built between 1775 and 1802 over a tank in the garden of a Kankani moslem, the mosque is a quadrangular tiered construction of brick and stone decorated with turrets and ornate balustrades. The mosque was repaired and enlarged in 1837 and from this time date the row of two storey, terrace roofed...

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208 x 160 mm. (p. 1).