[Scenes of the Plague in Bombay, 1896–97, and the Indian Famine, 1899–1900]

Shivshanker Narayen Indian

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[Scenes of the Plague in Bombay, 1896–97, and the Indian Famine, 1899–1900], Shivshanker Narayen (Indian, active 1860s–90s), Albumen silver prints from glass negatives and gelatin silver prints

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Page 1, "No. 1-- House in Mandvie Bunder Road where Plague was first recognised in September 1896. The seventeen circles marked against the doorway are registers of deaths from Plague officially recognised. It is currently reported that fifty deaths occurred from the epidemic in this house before the Municipality began to take official note of it."