No. 21. View of Ootacamund on the Nilgiris. Sanatorium for the English and the Governor of Madras, lies 6000 feet high. The houses are scattered in a wide area. The only bunched settlement is the native bazaar, which cannot be seen on this photo. The camera was pinted north-east.

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Title	No. 21. View of Ootacamund on the Nilgiris. Sanatorium for the English and the Governor of Madras, lies 6000 feet high. The houses are scattered in a wide area. The only bunched settlement is the native bazaar, which cannot be seen on this photo. The camera was pinted north-east.
Type of title	translation
Original caption	No. 21. Ansicht von Ootacamund auf den Neilgherries. Sanitarium der Engländer und des Gouverneurs von Madras; liegt 6000' hoch; die Häuser sind in weitem Umkreis zerstreut; nur der auf dem Bild nicht sichtbare Native Bazar bildet eine zusammenhängende Strasse; das Bild ist in der Richtung nach Nord-Ost aufgenommen.
Description	Note translation: My suspicion is that the German word "Sanatarium" in the caption is intended to carry the meaning "health resort" rather than point to an institutional sanatorium (PJ 11.2001).
Subject (bmpixs)	architecture forest government hospital landscape mountain settlement
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Madras {place}; Udagamandalam {place}
Geographic subject (region)	Nilgiri {region}
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Type	images
Format	b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver; 18.6 x 28.0 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m41008
Part of album	QL-30.007: untitled
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Historical Photographs from the Basel Mission
Part of loan	Private Collection
Reference number	QL-30.007.0021
Rights	All the images (photographic and non-photographic) made available in this collection are the property of the Basel Mission and are managed by mission 21. mission 21 / Basel Mission claim copyright on the images in their possession and require those publishing any of the images -- both individuals and organisations -- to pay a user's/copyright fee.
Access conditions	Contact the Archives of mission21 at address mentioned or at info@bmpix.org.
Repository name	mission21
Repository address	mission21, Missionsstrasse 21, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland, tel. (+4161 260 23 09), fax (+4161 260 22 68)
Repository email	info@bmpix.org
Filename	impa-abmpix-22706
Archival file	impa_Volume109/impa-abmpix-22706.tiff

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No. 21. View of Ootacamund on the Nilgiris. Sanatorium for the English and the Governor of Madras, lies 6000 feet high. The houses are scattered in a wide area. The only bunched settlement is the native bazaar, which cannot be seen on this photo. The camera was pinted north-east.

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