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Calcutta River View, with Sailing Ships, 1880s

River View, with sailing ships, 1890s

Steam Ship at Chandpal Ghat, c1920

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Old Fort William: Nursery of Calcutta City, 1700-1757
Barrackpore House & Its English Park: 1803-1912
Barrackpore : Story of a Little Calcutta
Ramdulal Dey: The Millionaire Bengal Merchant, 1752-1825
Rajendra Dutt 1818-1889
The First English Settlers: Sutanuti Sahibs, 1690 – 1706
Lal Dighi, Lal Bagh, Calcutta, 1690 –
Writers’ Buildings, Tank Square, Calcutta, 1780
Howrah Railway Junction Station, Howrah, 1854 –
Great Western of Bengal Railway Company, Calcutta, 1845-1847
Bengal National College, Calcutta, 1906
Calcutta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Calcutta, 1861
Bethune Society, Calcutta, 1851
Calcutta School-Book Society, Calcutta, 1817
Oriental Seminary, Calcutta, 1829
Calcutta Armenians, Calcutta, c1660
Jagannath Ghat, Calcutta, c1760s
Armenian Ghat, Calcutta, 1734
Outram Institute, Dum Dum, Calcutta, c1860
The Hon’ble Company’s Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 1787
Cowrie Currency and Calcutta’s Money Market
Bazaar Firms and Small-scale Trades, Calcutta, 19th Century
Calcutta Peoples, 1876-1901
Old Calcutta Mints, Calcutta, 1757 –
Dalhousie Institute, Hare Street, Calcutta, 1865
Hindu College, Gol Dighi, Calcutta, 1817
Hindu School, Gol Dighi, Calcutta, 1817
Sans Souci Theatre, Park Street, Calcutta, 1841
Kidderpore Bridge, Calcutta, 1826
Calcutta Vernacular Literature Society, Calcutta, 1851
Calcutta School Society, Calcutta, 1818
General Assembly’s Institution, Calcutta, 1830
St Xavier’s College and the Collagiate School, Calcutta, 1860
Calcutta Boys’ School, Calcutta, 1877
Calcutta Free School Society, Lal Dighi, Calcutta, 1789
Charity School, later Free School, Calcutta, estb c1726-1731
Calcutta Rowing Club, Strand Road, Calcutta, 1858
Munshis, or Native Language Scholars, Calcutta, Company Era
St Thomas School, Kidderpore, Calcutta, 1789
Hanging Punkaha, Calcutta, c1786-90
Refreshments Room, Eaden Gardens, Calcutta, c1870
Hooghly Mohsin College, Chinsurah, 1836
Sealdah Railway Station, Sealdah, Calcutta, 1869
Royal Calcutta Golf Club. Tollygunge ( since 1910), 1829
Calcutta City Life during Last Phase of Colonial Era, 1945-46
Calcutta Cricket, Maidan, Calcutta, 1792
Ice House, Calcutta, c1833
Tipu Sultan Mosque, Dhuramtalah Street, Calcutta, 1832
Old Customs House, Tank Square, Calcutta, c1758
St James Church, Circular Road, Calcutta, 1864
Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road, Calcutta, 1818
St James Theatre, Circular Road, Calcutta, 1871
Saturday Club, Wood Street, Calcutta, 1900
East Indian Railway, Fairlie Place, Calcutta, c1925
Bengal Telephone Company, Calcutta, 1883
Opium clipper Red Rover on river Hooghly, Calcutta, c1830s
Bengal Pilot Service on River Hooghly, c 1850s
Tollygunge Club House, Tollygunge, Calcutta, c1895
Army and Navy Store – Recent View , Chowringhee Road, Calcutta, 2008
Hall and Anderson Store, Chowringhee, Calcutta, c1925
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Chowringhee Road, Calcutta, 1905
St. John’s Church, Tank Square, Calcutta, 1787
Calcutta Theatre, Clive Row, Calcutta, 1776
Steuart and Company : House, Manufactory and Bazar, Tank Square, 1795
Imperial Library, Metcalfe Hall, Calcutta, c1905
Play House, Old Fort, Tank Square, Calcutta, 1786
Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth, Burrabazar, Calcutta, 1724
Belgachhia Villa, Belgachhia, Calcutta, c1870
Portuguese Church, Dharmatala Street, Calcutta, 1848
Old Mission Church (Kiernander’s Mission), Old Fort William, Calcutta, 1774
Saint Anne Church, Old Fort William, Calcutta, c1730
Old Court House, Tank Square, c1760-1774
Belvedere House, Alipur, Calcutta,1838
Sailor’s Home, Strand Road, Calcutta, c1870s
Metcalfe Hall, Strand Road, Calcutta, 1851
Cathedral of the Most Holy Rosary; or, Portuguese Church, Murgihata, Calcutta, 1826
Taylor and Company’s Emporium, opposite Palmer’s House, Lall Bazar, Calcutta, 1826
Bazaar on the Chitpore Road, Calcutta, 1826
View of Calcutta from Hooghly River, c1789
Fort William’s Chowringhee Gate, Gobindapur, Calcutta, c1880
Fort William Interor View, Gobindapur, Calcutta, c1828
Map of Fort William In Its Context, Gobindapur, Calcutta , 1844
Supreme Court, Esplanade Row, Calcutta, 1851
Council House [Old], Calcutta, 1764
Old Court House, Fort William, Calcutta, c1760-1774
East India House, Leadenhall Street, London, c1817
East India Company’s Factory, Cossimbazar, 1795
Fort William College, The Exchange, Calcutta, c1800
Old Fort Ghat, Calcutta, c1787
Fort William, Calcutta, 1754
Fort William, Calcutta, 1781
Garden House of Mr Trinks, Garden Reach, 1795
Alfred East Indiaman: Sailing vessel of East India Company, 1845
Bethune School, Laying of Foundation Stone, Cornwallis Square, Calcutta, 1850
Fort William – Rampart Barracks, Calcutta, c1915
Mohammedan College of Calcutta, 1848
Royal Calcutta Turf Club, Calcutta, 1845
Russel Street, Chowringhee, Calcutta, 1828
Cheetah Chasing A Deer, Barrackpore Park, c1802
Military Orphan (Lower) School, Howrah, Calcutta, 1782

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