"Funerali di un Brahmano," from 'Atlante Illustrato', Florence, 1845
Source: ebay, June 2007
Supplies of firewood at the burning ghats, Banaras; a photo by Samuel Bourne, c.1860's; *another view*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
Source: ebay, Aug. 2006
"The Cremation Ghat at Calcutta," a wood engraving (Selmar Hess, New York, 1877); *a large scan of this engraving, from a Dutch travel book, 1865*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2001; Nov. 2006
An albumen photo, c.1880s; no details known
Source: ebay, Oct. 2006
*"Burning ghat, Benares," a photo by Frith, c.1880*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
*"Benares, Ciudad Sagrada de la India," a photo c.1880's**; and *another Frith view*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2008
A silver gelatin print, c.1890's
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
*"Burning ghat, Benares," a photogravure by John L. Stoddard, 1892*
Source: ebay, June 2001
*"The Last Voyage," by Edwin Lord Weeks, c.1892* (an aged man is hastily taken to die in Varanasi, near the burning ghats); also *"A Fakir's Funeral, India, after E. L. Weeks," from the Illustrated London News, 1892*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2006
Source:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?wtc:116:./temp/~ammem_KLBm::
(downloaded Dec. 1999)
*"Burning the dead at the baths, Benares," by James M. Davis, c.1900*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2007
*"Who dies in the waters of the Ganges obtains heaven," a stereoscopic view, c.1900*; *"Son building father's funeral pyre, Benares," 1908*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
*"A burning ghat on the Ganges, at Benares, India," a stereoscopic image, c.1903* (BL) [*stereoscopic, 1903*]
"Burning ghat, Benares," a visitor's photo, 1910's; *another photo of the same scene*; *a third photo*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
*A photogravure of the burning ghat, Benares, by Martin Hurlimann, 1928*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
*"A Hindu Funeral," from Customs of the World, ed. by Walter Hutchinson, London, 1931*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2006
The burning ghats in Banaras, a photo from the 1930's
Source: ebay, May 2007
A modern visitor's photo of the same scene at Manikarnika Ghat, Banaras
Source: http://www.raphaelk.co.uk/web%20pics/India/India.htm
(downloaded Mar. 2006)
The same scene, looking in the other direction
Source:
http://www.beezone.com/edwardo/PeterM/ManikarnikaGhat/latest.htm
(downloaded Mar. 2006)
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