late 1860sBombay
Shaik Memon Street, Bombay
Samuel Bourne. LACMA dates the albumen print to the late 1860s.
Street photograph
late 1860s·Bombay
Shaik Memon Street, Bombay
Samuel Bourne. LACMA dates the albumen print to the late 1860s.
Street photograph · Altered
What this plate shows
A street photograph. Bombay, late 1860s: a crowded commercial street, timber and masonry upper floors, balconies, awnings. The inscription names Shaik Memon Street. Bourne’s albumen print. Not a plan and not a drawing.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Shaik Memon Street (the inscription on the print).
- Region
- Asia
- Present status
- Altered — A street of this name still exists. The shopfronts in the print are not a record of what stands there now.
- Source
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.90.24.11. The print is inscribed “Bombay. The Shaik Memon Street.” LACMA’s title spells it Said-Memon. Scale of that scan.
- License
- Public domain.