Scope and Contents 278x185mm. View looking N.W. from the top of the Ochterlony Monument, across the Maidan towards the S. facade of Government House. At the right, opposite the E. gate of Government House at the junction of Esplanade Row and Old Court House Street, is Scott Thomson's Corner. To the left of Government House are the Town Hall and, fronting onto Council House Street, the Legislative Department and the Treasury. For other sections of this panoramic view from the monument, see Y3022BB/7,10,...

Scope and Contents 149xl00 mm. View looking N along Old Court House Street towards Government House. Designed by Charles Wyatt of the Bengal Engineers and built for the Marquis of Wellesley between 1799 and 1803, the house was modelled on Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire and consists of a central area with a wing at each corner joined to the central structure by four curving passages. Above the apsideal termination of the centre of the S facade is a dome, placed on the building soon after its construction to...

Scope and Contents 291x197mm. View from the S. gardens of Government House looking N.E. along Government Place East towards Old Court House Street. The Great Eastern Hotel is at the extreme left. Also visible, at 12 Government Place, are the premises of Harman & Co., Tailors. This firm was originally established inTank Square (Dalhousie Square), but moved to Government Place in 1866. At the right, in a building with Corinthian columns and a pediment on the W. facade are the old premises of Francis,...

Scope and Contents 309x109mm. View of the Chowringhee facade of the Bengal Club. The club was founded in 1827, its first home being in Gordon's Buildings, Esplanade East. From 1829-45 its clubhouse was in Tank Square (later Dalhousie Square). In the latter year it moved into the buildings at 33 Chowringhee Road seen here. This was the house lived in by Lord Macaulay while Law Member of the Supreme Council from 1834-38. The buildings were previously two private residences (nos. 1 and 1/1Russell Street). The...

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289x211mm. View from College Street of the S. facade of the Medical College Hospital, which has a rusticated basement storey with a colonnade running along the full extent of the range above. In the centre is an octostyle portico with columns carrying palm leaf capitals, with pavilions at either end of the building. The hospital was designed and erected by the firm of Burn & Co., and built between 1848-52, (Massey p.17).

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229 x 178 mm. pen and ink sketch showing the arrival of a young man from Britain recruited to work on the Assam tea plantations during the late 1840s.

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Half-plate. [Print missing]. In front is seen a heavy punching and shearing machine electrically driven; overhead a ten ton electric train; in distance a straightening machine.

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Half-plate. In front is seen a heavy punching and shearing machine electrically driven; overhead a ten ton electric train; in distance a straightening machine.

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110 x 60 mm. A statue of Lord Curzon forms the centre of the monument.

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Half-plate.

Scope and Contents Albums containing photographs of street scenes and architectural views of buildings in Calcutta, in various sizes with the majority captioned. Titles of uncaptioned prints which have been composed for this catalogue are enclosed in square brackets. The majority of the prints are blue toned collodio chloride prints and in several the contrast is rather harsh. This is particularly true of the older material which are either later prints from the original negatives or copy prints made by...

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Quarter-plate. Chowringhee Road, Calcutta.

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284x231mm. View looking along the avenue of palmyra palms near the Howrah Gate entrance in the N.W. corner of the Botanical Gardens, (Massey p.2).

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320 x 186 mm. View looking SW from the Ochterlony Monument, across the Maidan and towards Fort William and the River Hooghly. See also Y3022AA/3. Bourne no. 1715.

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Quarter-plate. [Inscription on tablet above it: The marble pavement below this spot was placed here by Lord Curzon Viceroy and Governor-General in 1901 to mark the site of the prison in Old Fort William known as the Black Hole in which 146 British inhabitants of Calcutta were confined in the night of the 20th June 1756, and from which only 23 came out alive].

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Comprises a series of photograph albums relating to Ward's work and travels in India, particularly relating to Rangoon and Calcutta, and various customs houses in British India. The albums also cover Ward's war service in East Africa and Iraq. There is a small amount of personal family material which gives an indication of the social life of the Wards.

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246x194mm. View from the south side of Dalhousie Square looking across the Tank towards the Post Office on the west side.

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282x197mm. View from the roadway of the premises of Bathgate & Co., chemists, at 17-19 Old Court House Street. The shop is a single storey building, with attached Corinthian columns and a covered porch running from the entrance to the street. The firm was established in Calcutta in 1811 and in the later years of the century was also a photographic supplier, (Massey p.60).

Scope and Contents 287x203mm. Showing the single storey premises of Cooke &Kelvey, jewellers, at 20 Old Court House Street next to Bathgate & Co., with two motor cars parked in the roadway in front of the building. The shop is of plain stone with an ironwork porch running from the entrance to the roadway. The horizontal roofline is broken by a clock above the main entrance set to the right of centre. The date of construction is unknown, but the building was already standing when the firm moved into it...

Scope and Contents 286x230mm. View from Government Place of the tea rooms and restaurant of Federico Peliti, a two storey building at 11 Government Place East, with much decorative ironwork and a covered porch leading from the main entrance to the street. Federico Peliti came to India from Italy in 1870 as Chief Confectioner to the Viceroy, Lord Mayo. After Mayo's assassination in 1872 Peliti went into business on his own account, with premises at 11 Esplanade Row. He moved into the buildings seen here in...

Scope and Contents 295x223mm. View from the street showing the new premises of the furnishers and drapers Francis, Harrison, Hathaway & Co. The building, whose Government Place facade is decorated with four Roman Ionic columns supporting two open-bed pediments and with two small domes on the roof, also housed the offices of The Times of India. The building is on the same site as the firm's old premises, and was probably erected at about the same time as Esplanade Mansions, which can be seen in the...

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284x209mm. Showing the Chowringhee Road premises of G.F. Kellner, a handsome two storey building erected on the site of a house damaged in the earthquake of 1897. The business was founded c.1857 and later became proprietors of and caterers to refreshment rooms and dining cars on several Indian railways, (Massey p.106).

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285x192mm. View from Chowringhee Road looking S., with the premises of Hall and Anderson at the junction with Park Street. The store is a two storey brick building and was, according to Massey, the first shop to be built in this area, completed about 1911. It was erected on the site of the godown of a French liquor agent named Dollet. The firm of Hall and Anderson was founded in 1891, (Massey p.109).

Scope and Contents 292x241mm. View from the street of the imposing facade of the jewellers Hamilton & Co., a three storey white building, with pedimented windows separated by Ionic pilasters, and with much decorative ironwork on the verandah and covered entrance. The firm was founded in 1808 and run by the Remfrey family from 1835-1900. It became a limited company in 1919. As one of the premier jewellers in Calcutta, Hamilton's were responsible in the early years of the19th century for the auctioning of...

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288x195mm. Head-on view from the street of the flat-roofed, single storey premises of John Dewar & Sons, Ltd., the whisky distillers. Previously the building had been occupied by Old Moore's Investment Rooms, (Massey p.82). Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman.