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Picturesque India or, In and About Calcutta
Botanical gardens in Bombay (now Mumbai) plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) as they were in 1913.
Overview
Botanical gardens in Bombay (now Mumbai) plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) as they were in 1913. Passers-by watch the camera as a herd of goats are driven past by two goatherds.
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