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Language Not applicable Place West Bengal, India Level [41] Item

1. Photo 15/1(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 15/1(31)
Title:
Rustic scene in Bengal. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View from the roadside of a village scene, one of a series of views on this theme made by Samuel Bourne. A later print (1890s) of a Bourne photograph. Subjects = architecture (vernacular); Elgin Collection; rural life; villages
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 247/4(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/4(20)
Title:
Ghaut near the Hooghly. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View from the bottom of the ghat, looking up the flight of steps towards the ghat building, with figures posed on the steps.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 247/4(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/4(21)
Title:
Woodsa[w]yers, Bengal. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Portrait of three men, posed among baulks of timber beside a small hut raised on piles, with a river (presumably the Hugli) in the background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 247/4(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 247/4(49)
Title:
Native garden scenery near Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Village scene, looking across a tank towards thatched houses, with figures posed in the foreground. This appears to be a general view of a Bengal village, rather than a garden.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1851-1852
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 335/10(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 335/10(21)
Title:
[Anti-strike poster.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Bengali cartoon, warning railway workers against striking. Subjects = industrial action; paintings and drawings; Spalding Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 335/10(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 335/10(22)
Title:
[Anti-strike poster.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Bengali cartoon, warning railway workers against striking. Subjects = industrial action; paintings and drawings; Spalding Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 335/10(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 335/10(23)
Title:
[Anti-strike poster.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Bengali cartoon, warning railway workers against striking. Subjects = industrial action; paintings and drawings; Spalding Collection
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 440/1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 440/1(1)
Title:
[View of women and children picking tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Scope & Content:
Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. Possibly by the same photographer identified in Print 5.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1909
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 440/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 440/1(4)
Title:
[View of plantation workers hoeing tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Scope & Content:
Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. An annotation below the print reads: 'J. A. Vellancey, Calcutta, 1909', probably the photographer responsible for this and other tea plantation prints in this collection, alt...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 440/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 440/1(5)
Title:
[View of plantation workers picking tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Scope & Content:
Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. The estate manager and two assistants are standing in the field (see Print 17 for portraits). An annotation below the print reads: 'Taken by J. A. Vellancey, Assam 1909'. Dup...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1909
Extent:
1 item