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*[http://www.vandaimages.com/results.asp?image=2006BG2533-01&itemw=4&itemf=0001&itemstep=1&itemx=1 Image: Taylor's Emporium] by Charles D'Oyly (1781 - 1845). Watercolour. Calcutta, India, 1828 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Image No. 2006BG2533-01
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==Economy and business==
[[Image:Calcutta - Colootollah Street.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Colootollah street , Calcutta]]
*[http://www.vandaimages.com/results.asp?image=2006BG2533-01&itemw=4&itemf=0001&itemstep=1&itemx=1 Image: Taylor's Emporium] by Charles D'Oyly (1781 - 1845). Watercolour. Calcutta, India, 1828 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Image No. 2006BG2533-01
**The shop in Loll Bazar is described c 1828 from [https://archive.org/stream/tomrawgriffinbur00doylrich#page/92/mode/2up page 92] ''Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem, in twelve cantos'', see [[Calcutta#Historical books online|Historical books online, below]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=yPENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA9 "Calcutta"] ''Street's Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1869'', page 9. Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalpastprese01socigoog#page/n56/mode/2up "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta"] [the famous Calcutta coach building firm of Steuart & Co.] by Frank Bushby ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume 41, 1931'', pages 138-140 Archive.org
*[http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-816730-X.pdf "The Calcutta Piano Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century"] by Ian Woodfield from the book ''Music and British Culture, 1785-1914 Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich'' 2000. Oxford University Press.
*[[Calcutta Businesses in 1933]]
==Also see==
*John Williamson Palmer was an American [[Doctor|doctor]] and author who wrote c 1858 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ "The Chorus of the Palanquin Bearers"], a description of his transit through Cossitollah Street, Calcutta<ref> Reprinted in ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist'', page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858 </ref>. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58937~!41&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Photograph of Man in Palki (Palanquin) in Calcutta] from the Smithsonian Institution. Click image to enlarge.
*There are many references to Calcutta in ''History of The Portuguese in Bengal'' by J J A Campos 1919 which is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. For barcode 99999990174384, the Contents is computer page 16.
*[https://archive.org/details/tomrawgriffinbur00doylrich ''Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem, in twelve cantos: illustrated by twenty-five engravings, descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India company's service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situtation in India''] by “ a Civilian and an Officer on the Bengal Establishment” 1828 Archive.org
*A novel: ''Life in India; or, The English at Calcutta'' by Anne Catharine Monkland 1828 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=e2LvXmd1AWIC&pg=PP5 Volume I], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lB5hLGUDIwEC&pg=PP11 Volume II], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t-w5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume III] Google Books
