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202x153mm. View looking N. along Government Place East towards Old Court House Street. In the distance are St Andrew's Church and the tower of the Telegraph Office. In the middle distance is the Great Eastern Hotel, with the premises of Harman & Co., James Murray & Co., and Francis, Harrison, Hathaway & Co. in the foreground, (Massey p.47). Photographer possibly Johnston and Hoffman.

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240x187mm. General view of the stands at Calcutta Race Course.

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201x116mm. View looking across the track towards the new stand, (Massey p.4).

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A collection of programmes, invitations, menus, photographs and other material issued in connection with the Royal Visit to India during 1905-1906.

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Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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Under construction.

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Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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294x216mm. View from the street showing the premises of Castellazzo Bros. at 18 Chowringhee Road, a two storey building with a decorated cast-iron balustrade and a porch projecting over the street from the entrance. (Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffmann).

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207x148mm. An interior view looking eastwards along the nave towards the altar and showing the trussed iron beams of the ceiling and the fans for ventilation, (Massey p.25).

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Half-plate. [Exterior with Indians grouped in street in foreground].

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206x147mm. View looking along the Chitpore Road which crosses Harrison Road just E. of the Burra Bazar area of Calcutta, (Massey p.31).

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312 x 186 mm. View looking north along the Chowringhee Road towards the Esplanade with the Maidan on the left.

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201x140mm. View looking S. along Chowringhee Road, with Chowringhee Mansions in the left foreground and Park Street and the New Bengal Club beyond. The date of construction of this residential block, an ornately decorated building with pediments, attached Corinthian columns, turrets and domes, was about 1911, (Massey p.108).

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205 x 135 mm. No. 3142.

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269x179mm. View looking N. along Clive Street, with the Fairlie Place junction in the left foreground. At the extreme right, at the junction with China Bazaar, a small part of the old Exchange Buildings can be seen (illustrated in Massey p.76). Horse drawn trams, introduced abortively in Calcutta in 1873 and on a permanent basis from 1880, can be seen in the roadway, (Massey p.85).

Scope and Contents 206x149mm. A view from the S. side of Dalhousie Square looking across the Tank towards the Post Office and Writers Buildings. The Post Office, with its reinforced concrete dome of over 220 feet and colonnaded facade in the composite order, was designed by Waiter B. Granville, Architect to the Government of India. The foundation was laid in 1864 and the building opened to the public (although not entirely completed) in 1868. It stands on part of the site of Old Fort William. See also...

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286x227mm. View looking S. along Dalhousie Square (probably from the steeple of St Andrew's Church) and along Old Court House Street. The premises of Smith, Stanistreet & Co. can be seen in the left foreground. In the right background is the tower of the Telegraph Office, (Massey p.56).

Scope and Contents 287x194mm. View from the W. side of Dalhousie Square looking N.E. across the tank. At the extreme left the E. end of the Bengal Secretariat can be seen, and next to it St Andrew's Church ('The Scotch Kirk'), modelled on St Martin in the Fields in London and built 1815-18. Along the E. side of the square can be seen the premises of J.B. Norton & Sons (plumbers and contractors), the West End Watch Company, Smith Stanistreet and Company, and Dwarkin's Musical Depot, founded by Dwarkanath...

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281x217mm. View looking N. along Council House Street, showing the E. facade of the Department of Commerce and Industry built on the site of the old Foreign Office. A two storey brick building with a terrace roof, the Department has an arcade running along the ground storey, with a colonnade of Tuscan columns above. The facade of the building is broken by three pavilions, those at the ends being pedimented. Date of construction unknown, (Massey p.70).

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238x177mm. View looking north-east across the old Dhurrumtollah Tank (later filled in) towards the junction of Esplanade Row, Corporation Street and Chowringhee Road. The Mosque of Prince Ghulam Muhammad, built c.1840, is in the centre of the print, with the premises of Lawson & Co. at the left and the Chowringhee Hotel at the right.

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Extracts from a large desk diary, 13 July-29 August 1935, covering Diana Hartley's tour from Calcutta to Baroda (see RCMS 77/1/2), and thereafter to Poona and Miraj, 17 November-2 December 1935.