*"The Great Pagoda. Entrance to the Temple of Minakshi in the Great Pagoda [Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai]," a photo by Linnaeus Tripe, 1858* (BL)


*"The Great Pagoda. The east gopuram of the Great Pagoda [Minakshi Sundareshvara Temple, Madurai]," a photo by Linnaeus Tripe, 1858* (BL)


*Interior of the Minakshi Sundareshvara temple, Madurai, a photo from the 1860's* (BL) [*photo 1860's 1*]


*Pudu mandapa, Minakshi Sundareshvara temple, Madurai, a photo from the 1860's* (BL) [*photo 1860's 2*]


"Madura -- the painted corridor," an albumen photo by Bourne and Shepherd, c.1880's; also: *"Madura -- the Golden Lily tank"*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2008


*"The Painted Corridor, Meenachi Temple, Madurai; an albumen photo, late 1800's*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2008


*Inside the Minakshi temple; a photo by Nicholas & Co., 1890's*; and *a view of pillars in the mandapam, perhaps also by Nicholas*; and *another view of interior pillars by Nicholas*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2002


A photo from the 1890's; also: *an overview of the temple complex*; and *an inner gallery*

Source: ebay, Nov. 2007





Another photo from c. the 1890's; also *an exceptionally detailed gopuram view*; *a view of the tank*; *an overview of the town*

Source: ebay, July 2009


*"Grotesque fancy and patient skill of Hindu sculptors," a view from 1908* (Ames Library): *more information (BL)*


"A Characteristic Street in Madura, India," a stereoscopic view, c.1900; also *gopurams and tank, 1901*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2008


*"Car of Juggernaut, Madurai. It is under a galvanized iron car when not in use," a gelatin photo, 1904*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2008





A visitor's photo, 1909; *in the courtyard*; *a nearby street*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2009



*"Temple juggernaut," a photo from c.1935*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2008


Shiva Nataraja, within the Great Temple of Madurai; a photogravure by Alfred Nawrath, 1938

Source: ebay, Jan. 2007


"Madura: Images on the South Tower of the Great Temple," a photogravure from a German art book, 1928; also: *"In a Village Near Madura"*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2006


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