Dear Friends
For a project that I am working on, I require photographs of the following Presidents/Mayors and Commissioners of the Corporation of Madras/Chennai. In case you have any links/references/sources, please do let me know:
Presidents and Mayors
SD Pears – 1902-1906
ES Lloyd, ICS – 1906-1910
N MacMichael, ICS – 1907
PL Moore, CIE, ICS – 1910-1914
JC Molony, ICS – 1914-1919
HH Burkitt, ICS- 1917-1918
TS Ramaswami Iyer- 1931-1932
Abdul Hameed Khan – 1935-1936
J Shivashanmugam Pillai – 1937-1938
C Basudev – 1940-1941
S Ramaswami Naidu- 1948-1949
T Chengalvaroyan – 1952-1953
Commissioners
EHM Bower, ICS
GT Boag, ICS
VN Subbarayan
N Sankaran
R Balasubramaniam
Ghulam Mohammed Basha
JV Satchidananda Rao
Choosing J Shivashanmugam Pillai at random, I came up with this using Google Image search.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/an-unsung-hero-of-tn-legislature/article3975104.ece
Not sure who holds the copyright, if any, for that photo.
(I know it’s a rather silly question to ask, but…) Would not the corportation have photos of at least some of them in some rat-infested store room?