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Language Not applicable Subject Washermen Material Type Photographs

1. Photo 29(36)

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Photo 29(36)
Title:
Dhobee's House and tank. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 1733 in the negative. From Bourne's Rustic scenes and village life in Bengal series, photograped in the Calcutta area. View looking across the village tank towards a group of washermen and women, with a substantial mud and thatch hut beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1867
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/52(4960)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4960)
Title:
Washermen at work beside a river or pond. Photographer: Hooper and Western
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography This is presumably one of the series of views by Hooper & Western which was shown first at the London Exhibition of 1871 and later at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forbes Watson, 'Vienna Universal Exhibition, 1873. A classified and descriptive catalogue...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1172/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(20)
Title:
Dhobi, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-size portrait of a man dressed in shorts and a shirt, sitting outdoors and marking laundry clothes: 'Our Dhobi (laundryman) To mark your clothes ... he sticks a needle into a hard nut, full of black juice, and lays it along your laundry, or to make a dot, pierce...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
May 1941-Sep 1941
Extent:
1 item