Janus: Views in Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] and the Nilgiris

RCS contains:
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Y3022CCCC	Bombay photographs
Y3022DD	Photographs of India
Y3022EE	Panorama of Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] by A.T.W. Penn
Y3022EEEE	Reminiscences
Y3022F	Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency, London : Lovell Reeve, 1862
Y3022FF	Views in Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] and the Nilgiris
Y3022G-I	Littledale India Collection
Y3022GG	Views in Bombay
Y3022GGGG	Famous monuments of Central India
Y3022HH	Photographs of India and Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe], 1890s-1930s
Y3022HHHH	H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India
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Views in Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] and the Nilgiris

Title	Views in Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] and the Nilgiris
Reference	GBR/0115/Y3022FF
Creator	Penn, Albert Thomas Watson, 1849-1924, photographer
Covering Dates	circa 1905
Extent and Medium	8 images in 1 file; Fair condition.
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

A collection consisting of a panorama (5 joined prints) and loose prints, measuring approximately 280 x 210 mm. The prints are captioned (probably in Penn's hand) on the reverse. Prints 1 and 2 are also rubberstamped 'A.T.W. Penn, Reliance, Ootacamund'. This refers to the Reliance Auction and Commission Agency run by Penn in the early years of the twentieth century.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Views in Ootacamund [i.e. Udagamandalam] and the Nilgiris, Y3022FF

Further information

Refer to Y3022EE for further photographs of Ootacamund (i.e. Udagamandalam) and a biographical note on Penn.

Indexed

This item level description was entered by NE and MJC using information from the original typescript catalogue.

This collection is available on microfiche: South Asia, fiche number 62.

Index Terms

Asia

India

Penn, Albert Thomas Watson (1849-1924) photographer

RCS/Y3022FF contains:

Panorama of Ootacamund c 1905. 5 joined prints measuring in total 1447 x 207 mm. A panoramic view of Ootacamund and the surrounding country from Elk Hill, just above Bombay House. The photograph is taken from a similar viewpoint to Y3022EE. In this view the area of the lake to the east of the Willow Bund has been filled in and the ground taken over by part of the racecourse and tennis courts. This work was undertaken between 1896 and 1899. The town itself has grown considerably in this period between the two photographs, with a great increase in trees (Bombay House in this later view is almost entirely obscured). The recently built Roman Catholic Church can be seen in print 4, with Government House at the extreme right. The Government Office complex is at the extreme left of print 5.

1905

Kullar Bridge, Nilgiri Railway. 285 x 215 mm. View looking along the Kullar Bridge on the Nilgiri Railway from Mettupalaiyan to Ootacamund. Built with piers of local stone connected by plate girder spans, the bridge was constructed in 1899.

1905

Portion of the ghaut road between Ootacamund and Coonoor. 212 x 275 mm. View looking down onto the road which curves round a sheer cliff face at the left, with three bullock carts in the foreground. Coonoor is situated eight miles SE of Ootacamund.

1905

Corner of a Toda mund [illegible phrase, probably reading: A Toda girl performing the act of prostration] to an elder. 279 x 213 mm. Showing a group of Toda men, women and children posed in front of a characteristic Toda house in a 'mund' or village near Ootacamund. The caption refers to the young girl posed in the act of placing her forehead on the raised foot of the eldest member of the group. The Todas, an aboriginal tribe of cattle rearers living on the Nilgiri plateau around Ootacamund, attracted a great deal of ethnologic study. For more details, see Y3022 DD/1. This print is reproduced in Edgar Thurston, 'Castes and tribes of Southern India' (7 vols, Madras, 1909) vol 7, facing p 129.

1905