"Large Water Tank at Bombay"British photographer Francis Frith(1850&1870s), Gowalia Tank near Cumballa Hill—

 

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This 19th-century archival photograph titled "Large Water Tank at Bombay" was captured by renowned British photographer Francis Frith between the 1850s and 1870s, depicting a traditional masonry water reservoir—believed to be Gowalia Tank near Cumballa Hill—surrounded by palm trees and colonial-era buildings against a sloping hillock. 

• Photographer: Francis Frith (1850s–1870s albumen print/wet collodion glass negative)
Location Depicted: Reportedly the Gowalia Tank and Cumballa Hill area in nineteenth-century Bombay (Mumbai)
Composition: Features children seated along the stone embankment of the large reservoir with traditional foliage and hillside dwellings in the background 

Would you like to know more about the history of water reservoirs and tanks in colonial Bombay or Francis Frith's photographic expeditions in India?

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