Toda Mund
A very well-reserved color view of a Today village, postmarked to France May 23, 1917.
A very well-reserved color view of a Today village, postmarked to France May 23, 1917.
This Toda temple still stands and is in use. The photographer's lettering scratched into the negative echoes the camera tilt.
Most big Madras studios and retailers had branches in Ooti, among them Wiele & Klein, publisher of this very early court-sized view, possibly the earliest of the hillstation.
[Original caption] A Toda House _ Its Master and Mistress.