Title

'Old Court House Street from the South. Calcutta', c1910. Creator: Johnston & Hoffmann.

Caption

'Old Court House Street from the South. Calcutta', c1910. View of the 'Dead Letter Office', the Telegraph Office in Calcutta, (now Kolkata), Bengal, India. The building, the central sorting office for incoming mail to the city, is Italianate in style with a 120-foot campanile tower. On the left are the premises of Cooke & Kelvey, jewellers, silversmiths and watchmakers, and a tram runs down the centre of the street. Postcard.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1910

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D56_094

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

76,9Mb (3,6Mb) / 21,7in x 13,8in / 6512 x 4128 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation exterior outdoors road buildings communications India architecture shopping shop shops lane avenue tram Calcutta West Bengal location century horse drawn Colonial architectural B&W MONOCHROME post office streetcar road Transport postal service black & white black and white B W 1910s 20th century The Print Collector colonialism horse-drawn vehicle jewellers shop telegraph office TGN outside street photograph landscape postcard Kolkata horsedrawn Johnston & Hoffmann Old Court House Street Cooke & Kelvey Dead Letter Office photograph postcard landscape