3-028-196 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Government House Fort and Dalhousie Barracks, Calcutta, 1870. The British in India - huge piles of cannonballs. Engraving showing '...what used to be Government House, in the Fort, but which has of late years been converted into a library, with reading-room, billiard-room, and concert-hall for the benefit and amusement of the soldiers in garrison. The lower part of the building is used as a school-room. Up to the present time the Governor-General holds the keys of the fort, but never resides there. The shot and shell in the foreground belong to the arsenal, which is situated, however, near the Water Gate, at some little distance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.