The Lower Ganges canal takes off from a barrage on the Ganges at Narora in Bulandshahar district of what is now Uttar Pradesh. The work on this system was started in 1872 and completed in 1880, when four branches of the Lower Ganges canal were opened for irrigation. This photo is where the Bhognipur branch takes off from the Lower Ganges canal a...
Created:
1890
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Madaripur is a low-lying alluvial tract in what is now Bangladesh. The bils are marshes. Houses were built on artificial mounds raised along boat routes.
Creator:
Lorenz, Edna.
Created:
1900 - 1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department set up this telegraph workshop at Alipore, Calcutta in early 1855 as a repair workshop, and gradually it started production of Telegraph and Telecom equipment. This workshop supplied Telegraph/Telecom materials throughout India (including the territory of Burma prior to 1937). This is one of a set of 45 p...
Created:
1920 - 1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department set up this telegraph workshop at Alipore, Calcutta in early 1855 as a repair workshop, and gradually it started production of Telegraph and Telecom equipment. This workshop supplied Telegraph/Telecom materials throughout India (including the territory of Burma prior to 1937). This is one of a set of 45 p...
Created:
1920 - 1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department set up this telegraph workshop at Alipore, Calcutta in early 1855 as a repair workshop, and gradually it started production of Telegraph and Telecom equipment. This workshop supplied Telegraph/Telecom materials throughout India (including the territory of Burma prior to 1937). This is one of a set of 45 p...
Created:
1920 - 1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Ron (left) and Ken Meshbesher, ages 8 and 4, in front of family home at 927 Sheridan AAve. North, Minneapolis, Minn., circa 1941. The street immediately behind the boys is Sheridan Ave. The street angling into it is Oak Park (10th St.). The car in the background is a 1939. (Ron and Ken Meshbesher notes)
Created:
1941?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
The Mettur Dam, in what is now Salem District, Tamil Nadu, is a multipurpose project on the Cauvery River completed in 1934. It irrigates over 100,000 hectares and has installed hydropower generation capacity of 32 MW.
Created:
1900 - 1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
The Mettur Dam, in what is now Salem District, Tamil Nadu, is a multipurpose project on the Cauvery River completed in 1934. It irrigates over 100,000 hectares and has installed hydropower generation capacity of 32 MW.
Created:
1900 - 1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
The Mettur Dam, in what is now Salem District, Tamil Nadu, is a multipurpose project on the Cauvery River completed in 1934. It irrigates over 100,000 hectares and has installed hydropower generation capacity of 32 MW.
Created:
1900 - 1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
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