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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Spinning Wheels

1. Photo 1000/52(4892)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4892)
Title:
Cotton stacks and 'churka' or cotton gin in operation, Berar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a group of workers posed among piles of cotton. In the middleground two women operate a small churka or gin, while in the foreground a man is posed with a spinning wheel. Photograph 'Enclosed in India Foreign Revenue Letter no. 23 Dec 22/66. Recd. Feb. 1867.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1866
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/52(4897)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4897)
Title:
Male prisoners winding cotton on spinning wheels in Karachi Prison. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/52(4898)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4898)
Title:
Female prisoners winding cotton on spinning wheels in Karachi Prison. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1000/52(4899)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4899)
Title:
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing a woman reeling cotton.
Scope & Content:
Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (ii).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/52(4900)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4900)
Title:
Non-photographic: watercolour sketch by a Punjab artist of a cotton spinning wheel and spindle.
Scope & Content:
Shown at the Delhi Exhibition of 1872. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 227, catalogue no. 189 (i).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1000/52(4901)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4901)
Title:
Worker preparing thread for sari weaving. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Weaver crouching beside a spinning wheel, paying off thread to to a reel at the right. Photograph not credited, but probably one of the series of views of cotton manufacture shown by Shivashanker Narayen at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1166/1(157)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1166/1(157)
Title:
Mahomedan Kashmiri spinning. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Snapshot view showing a woman seated on the ground with her spinning wheel, her child beside her and a man on the right with a water pipe. Probably photographed at or near Srinagar.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1913
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1166/1(164)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1166/1(164)
Title:
Kashmir girl spinning. Photographer: Bremner, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Photographer's blind stamp, 'F. Bremner Simla & Lahore,' at lower right. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait study of a young Kashmiri woman, seated with her spinning wheel, probably at Srinagar and either on the bank of the Jhelum or the Dal Lake. Print 97 is...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item