2-709-151 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Court House Street, Calcutta, India, 1895. View of the 'Dead Letter Office', the Telegraph Office in Calcutta, (now Kolkata), Bengal, India. The building, the central sorting office for incoming mail to the city, is Italianate in style with a 120-foot campanile tower. On the right are the premises of Ranken & Co, military outfitters. From "Round the World in Pictures and Photographs: From London Bridge to Charing Cross via Yokohama and Chicago". [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1895]