Description by the British Library: "Photograph of Dacca (Dhaka) taken in the 1880s, from an album 'Architectural Views of Dacca', containing 13 prints by Johnston and Hoffman. ... This photograph presents a general view looking across the market place in Dhaka. In the centre of the image is an old brass-cannon of native manufacture, found in the Buriganga riverbed. On the left is the chief mosque in the city."[1]
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{{Information |Description= Bibi Mariam Cannon, a Mughal-era cannon set up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. |Source= http://dhakadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2006/11/mir-jumlas-cannon-bibi-mariam.html |Date= circa 1880 |Author= unknown |Permission= PD-Old |other_versions