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Mumbai (India) - Fiction

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  • A plague house in Bombay: the wall has been marked with circles. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Indian men sitting on steps outside a domed building in Bombay during an outbreak of plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • An affluent family forced to leave their home due to plague in their neighbourhood sitting outside temporary huts in a camp: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A plague house in Bombay: the wall has been marked with circles. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group comprising doctors, health and public officials gathered on a street in Bombay about to begin the day's work, during an outbreak of plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.

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    Four men sitting cross-legged outside a building with bells hanging from the roof: Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.

    | Date: 1896 | Reference: 37037i
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    Two groups of people on opposite sides of a railway line in Bombay awaiting the arrival of a plague patient by train. Photograph, 1896/1897.

    | Date: 1896 | Reference: 37004i
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    A group of men stand around the body of a man laid out on a pyre of logs during a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.

    | Date: 1896 | Reference: 37093i
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    A plague patient being transported on a manually propelled ambulance carriage to the Wari Bunder Hospital in Bombay. Photograph, 1896/1897.

    | Date: 1896 | Reference: 37029i
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    A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.

    | Date: 1896 | Reference: 37105i
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