Kanpur (inhabited place)
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
All Souls Memorial Church, Cawnpore, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Half-plate (landscape format). The low evergreen hedge marks the line of Gen. Wheelers entrenchments: to the left the hedge is V shaped, marking the redan, a check against the cavalry attack. (Fisher).
Bronze memorial statue of Queen Victoria, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Half-plate. By T. Brock R.A: native hindoo gardeners.
Cawnpore [i.e. Kanpur] aerodrome, 1936 - 1938
115 x 80 mm. Aerial view.
Cawnpore [i.e. Kanpur] aerodrome, 1936 - 1938
135 x 80 mm.
Indian tours, 1935
A description of Diana Hartley's journey from Nagpur through Jhansi, Cawnpore, Benares, Patna, Allahabad, Lucknow and Agra to Delhi, November-December 1935 (pp. 1-11), and of a journey through Calcutta, Nagpur, Chanda, Bombay, Suraj and Baroda, July-August 1935 (pp. 11-25).
Interior of Memorial Church, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
211x268mm. View looking along the nave towards the chancel and altar.
Interior of well, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
201x258mrn. Showing the marble angel by Carlo Marocheti which stands over the well inside the screen.
Leaving the works, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Each man has to cross a bamboo pole, and as he does so the chuprasers pass their hands over his sides to see if anything is concealed. (Fisher).
Making Army boots, Cawnpore, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Handsewn - most Mohommedan workers.
Making the warp, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Half-plate (landscape format). Bell rings when the warp is 50 yds [i.e. yards] long : the warp is then taken off on to a beam (roller) and transferred from the warpmill to the loom. (Fisher).
Marochett's Mutiny Memorial, Cawnpore [i.e. Kanpur], 1860 - 1900
A collection of photographs, each 250 x 190 mm, probably dating from the late 19th century. The prints are captioned in pencil on the back and the titles transcribed in the catalogue.
Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format). From the shore below the steps - dry in February.
Massacre Ghat, Cawnpore, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Showing the Ghat and looking towards the Oudh and Rohilkund Rly Bridge towards the S.W. (south-west).
Massacre Ghaut, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
276 x 208 mm. View of the Sati Chaura Ghat, the landing place on the Ganges north of Wheeler's Entrenchment where, on 27 June 1857, the garrison was ambushed after having been promised safe passage out of Cawnpore. Above the ghat is an hexagonal temple dedicated to Shiva.
Memorial Church, 'All Souls', Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
259 x 207 mm. General view of All Souls Memorial Church, Cawnpore, which was built to the north of Wheeler's Entrenchments. Begun in 1862, this church, built in Lombardic Gothic style of red brick and ashlar and dominated by a tall campanile, was designed by WaIter Granville (architect of the High Court and the Post Office in Calcutta). It was not consecrated until 1875 at a final cost of over £20,000.
Memorial cross in barracks, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
207x261mm. Showing the memorial cross near the barracks in the Cawnpore cantonment. It bears the following inscription: 'In a well under this cross were laid, by ye hands of their fellows in suffering, ye bodies of men, women, and children, who died hard by during ye heroic defence of Wheeler's Entrenchment when beleaguered by the rebel Nana. - June 6th to 27th A.D. MDCCCLVII.' 250 members of the garrison were buried in this well.
Memorial Garden, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
271x213mm. View of the Memorial Garden in the north-east section of the city looking along the avenue towards the memorial. The gardens were laid out in memory of the prisoners, mainly women and children who were captured at the Sati Chaura Ghat and subsequently murdered at the Bibigarh as General Havelock's column marched to recapture Cawnpore.
Memorial Well, 1860 - 1869
291 x 233 mm. Duplicate of Y3022D/36.
Memorial Well, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
236x186mrn. View of the statue and screen erected over the well where the victims of the Bibigarh massacre were buried. The enclosure is in the form of an octagonal screen in the Gothic style designed by Sir Henry Yule and inscribed over the entrance arch is 'These are they which came out of great tribulation'.
Memorial well, Cawnpore [Kanpur], 1870 - 1879
235 x 279 mm. View of the marble angel carved by Carlo Marochetti in the Memorial Gardens in Cawnpore [Kanpur].
Native cutters making clothes for British Troops, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Half-plate (landscape format). The piece of Kharki has been chalked out from cut patterns as seen. Cawnpore.
Picking and sorting the raw wool, 1908-01 - 1908-02
Quarter-plate (landscape format). Man in sack pressing in the wool with his feet.
Plan of Wheeler's Entrenchments, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
229x139mm. Photographic copy of a map showing the defences of Major-General Sir Hugh Wheeler in the centre of the Cawnpore cantonment during the Indian Mutiny in July 1857.
Scene of the massacre, Cawnpore [Kanpur], 1870 - 1879
282 x 225 mm. View looking along the Ganges River towards the landing place where the British garrison were massacred on 27 June 1857. See also Y3022L/31 and Y3022U/39.
Spot of massacre, Cawnpore, 1880 - 1889
230x172mm. Showing a plain stone cross surrounded by railings in the Memorial Gardens, marking the site of the Bibigarh. The inscription on the base reads: 'In Memoriam. On this spot stood the house of massacre. July 15 1857'.