Dedicated to the Unknown Photographer and French Priests who served Jesuit Institutions in South India , Madras , Trichy , Mangalore and Bangalore .

After preparing a page for Loyola College and Loyolla College Hostel at Madras, now called Chennai, I decided to add a few more picture cards that I came across so that people can enjoy instead of the whiteants getting at it or salting the history of the country in some dark and smelly box to be lost for ever. It was by chance that I came across these photos at Bangalore. and they were dug out from some cellar perhaps after 50 years!!! or maybe more who knows!! The Jesuits were probably involved in these photographs as they pertain mainly on Loyola college and St. Joseph's College, Trichy. The photographs of Loyola College are way back in the past. During all these years, Loyola must have changed, I really wish to visit the place and go around the hallowed grounds where we spent our 'teethiding' days. The other day I did come across some photo postcards from France, and these were probably taken by one of the French Jesuits or the Paris Mission Fathers, as they also covered other parts of Kerela and Madras suburbs. If anyone has some newer pictures of the College or from a different era, please put them up on the Net and send me a mail giving your URL (page address) and I will give a link to the page. I will not ask you to send the pictures to me, as they would be precious memories. Cheers Ronnie Johnson, the Bangalore Walla @ Bangalore!

• View of St. Joseph's College, High School and part of the Boarding House from the East
• View of part of St. Joseph's College, Lawley Hall and High School from Ponniah Photo Studio (not sure of the studio is still around) (Black & White)
• View of part of St. Joseph's College, Lawley Hall and High School from Ponniah Photo Studio (Coloured)
• View of St. Joseph's College, High School, Lawley Hall and Digby Hall, seen from the Western Boulevard Road
• Telescopic view of the St. Joseph's College Church from the Rock of Trichinopoly
• St. Joseph's College Church illuminated at night , view from the Rock of Trichinopoly
• The St. Joseph's College Museum
• The St. Joseph's College Museum building (Coloured)
• The St. Joseph's College Museum (Black & White)
• St. Joseph's College Father's Residence, Trichinopoly
• St. Joseph's College Father's Residence, during the 1924 flood
• Panormic view of Teppakulam, The Rock, Clive's House and Bishop Heber College
• St. Joseph's College and Rock Temple from Railway Lines
• Trichinopoly Rock Fort view from St. Joseph's College
• Teppakulam and Clive's House

A collection of photo postcards from France on places, people in South India and parts of Northern India.

• A Hindu Barber (location not known)
• The Rajagopal fort cannon, Tanjore
• A village class in progress
• Pottery sellers (location not known)
• The blacksmith (location not known)
• Schoolboys in vacation (location not known)
• A rainy day, people under mats (location not known, could be in the tea / coffee plantations in the South)
• The Ideyar's mourning dress (location not known)
• A stream at Aiyampalayam
• Climbing palm trees for Toddy tapping (location not known)
• Bathing at Benares
• A team of Oxen, the normal way to travel from place to place (location not known)
• A buffalo pulled cart, carrying water in wooden casks (location not known)
• A loop on the Himalayan Railway
• H.H. the Maharaja of Travancore
• A Parsee ( Parsi ) M. Davar, Secretary of the French Circle of Bombay
• A young Catholic Brahmin (location not known)

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• Visit St. Joseph's College, Bangalore
• Visit St. Aloysious College, Mangalore
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Thought for the Day:" Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall laugh. Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man's sake. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven, Fon in the manner their fathers did to the prophets. But woe to you who are rich, For you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full, For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, For you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did they fathers to the false prophets." Holy Bible: Luke 6:20-26