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A Tower of Silence Travels In The Far East (1909)

The circular wall here encloses a place of the dead, where bodies are left to be picked apart by the vultures that we see sitting on the wall and in the tall palm trees in this photograph.The construc [...]

Keywords: tombs, death, birds, trees, palm trees, ancient buildings, walls, cemetaries, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Bombay; India

Added: 2017-04-22

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Agra Palace and part of wall and gateway to the fort. Travels In The Far East (1909)

While the centre of attraction in Agra is the Taj Mahal, the fort, palace, and Moti Musjid (Pearl Mosque) are of equal interest. here we see the impress of three rulers, Akbar (the grandson of the not [...]

Keywords: castles, forts, battlements, greyscale

Places shown: Agra; India

Added: 2007-10-17

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Darjeeling Railway 1 The Leisure Hour (1896)

“India can show a most interesting experiment in railway constructioon in the recently built line to Darjeeling, on the slopes of the Himalayas. The problem to be solved by its projectors was how to c [...]

Keywords: steam engines, railways, trains, people, greyscale

Places shown: Darjeeling; India

Added: 2006-12-14

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Darjeeling Railway 2 The Leisure Hour (1896)

“The line has done wonders in the development of a valuable tea district, and is returning a revenue to the Treasury of India of about £20,000 a year, besides its dividend to the company which constru [...]

Keywords: railways, trains, bridges, greyscale

Places shown: Darjeeling; India

Added: 2006-12-14

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Entrance to the Cave of the Elephanta Travels Around the World (1873)

We ascended an easy flight of stone steps to a plateau one hundred and fifty feet above the sea. [...] Passing to the centre of the plateau and turning to the right, we confronted a work of human art [...]

Keywords: people, trees, temples, water, rocks, bare feet, ceilings, interiors, colour

Places shown: Elephanta Island; Bombay; India

Added: 2004-01-02

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