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Photograph of rock carvings (The Descent of the Ganges) at the Pancha Pandava Mandapa, 7th century.

Anon.

'Manantoddy Town, Malabar District'
'Surveyed & Mapped under the Superintendence of Lieut. Col. C. A. Liarder Deputy Superintendent Madras Survey complet[ed] [ ] 1885'
'Photo Zincographed in Central Survey Office Madras 1885'

Scale: 4 inches to 1 mile

New backing, cut along right margin, key pasted on map in bottom right corner.

Anon.

• Gopura facing the city of Madurai; 18.5 x 30.1 cm
• The two western gopuras inside the temple complex; 23.8 x 28.3 cm
• View of one of the gopuras; 23.6 x 28.6 cm
• Golden Lily Tank; 29 x 22.7 cm
• Bird's eye view of the temple complex, taken from the eastern gopura; 30.2 x 18.4 cm
• The temple at the centre of the Teppakulam Tank; 29.2 x 23.8 cm

Anon.

• Panoramic view (three photographs) of the temple complex showing the various gopuras; 84.9 x 22.2 cm
• Gopura next to the Golden Lily Tank; 23.5 x 28.8 cm
• Central shaft and pillars of Kambattadi Mandapa at Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple; 24.1 x 29.2 cm
• Unidentified building, probably showing unfinished gopura east of temple complex; 29.1 x 24.1 cm

Two sheets with photographs of temple buildings at Madurai.

Anon.

Photograph of the Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple complex at Madurai, view towards the gopura next to the Golden Lily Tank.

Anon.

'Proposal for relieving the congestion in Uppukara Block'
'Madura Ward No. 3 Block No. 14'

'S. Padmanabha 9-2-15 Engineer' signed in manuscript in ink.

'V. Srinivasan Chairman' signed in manuscript in ink.

Scale: 1 inch to 35 feet

Pencil sketch on the reverse.

'Uppukara Block III Ward Madura Town'

Two planning proposals for a block in Madurai, mounted on one sheet.

• 'Sketch No. 1 As approved by the Sanitary Commissioner'; '(Signed) S. Padmanabha Aiyar Engineer 11-5-15'; black and white; 42.9 x 33.5 cm
• 'Sketch No. 2 As approved by Prof. Geddes'; '(Signed) S. Padmanabha Aiyar Engineer 8-5-13'; colour, crayon on black and white print; 42.3 x 33.5 cm; annotated by Patrick Geddes

'(signed) by V. Srinivasan Chairman'
'Helico-Zinco., Survey Office, Madras 1915'

S[ ] Padmanabha Aiyar; Patrick Geddes.

Madras' endorsed in manuscript in pencil on reverse.

Three technical drawings for different types of wells, mounted on one sheet.

• 'Madras Sanitary Board Type Design for Open Well fitted with I Semi Rotary Pumps'
• 'Madras Sanitary Board Type Design for Deep Well fitted with Pump and W. I. Tank with Taps'
• 'Madras Sanitary Board Design for Deep Well (when M. W. L. is very low) fitted with Pump and W. I. Tank with Taps'

'W. Hutton Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. Superintending Engineer Sanitary Engineer to Govt.'

Various scales

One page of a town planning report for Tiruvattiswaranpet and one map of the same city, mounted on one sheet.

'Tiruvattiswaranpet (Madras) Proposed street from Suparigunta Paracheri to West Car Street of Temple Square' (pp. 97-98)
'Temple & Car Streets'

Anon. [Patrick Geddes]

'Revised plan showing C. A. Stonesin Malligaipoo Paracheri'
''[ ] Assist. Engineer Sth. Range'
'C. L. [Tiflich] Engineer Corporation of Madras'

Scale: 3 inches to 100 feet

'Plan showing the subdivision made in Landan's Gardens Re-Survey, Field No. 154 of Egmore'

Anon.

Scale: 1 inch to 26 feet

'Madras Harbor'
'W.P.P. 13/2/15'

W. P. P. [monogram]

Scale: 1 inch to 200 feet

'Carn Buck Club'

'From Wiele and Klein, Artists, Photographers and Phot Engravers[...]' labelled on reverse.

'Madras Harbour Professor Geddes' in manuscript in green pencil in top right corner on reverse.

'Madras Harbour' in red pencil in bottom margin on reverse.

'Corporation of Madras Works Dep[artmen]t, Technical Section Survey of Kaliman Parachery'
'Serial No. 155 Drawing No. 1'
'[ ] Assistant Engineer South Range'
'James R. Coat Engineer'

Author: James C. Coat

Scale: 1 inch to 66 feet

'Madras City' added in manuscript in pencil.