Compositors and clerks [of the 'Times of India'], - 1890 Curwen, Kane & Co. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Portrait Photography Formal group portrait, posed outside the School of Art on the occasion of the departure of Mr Kane for England. The company was owned by Curwen, Kane & Co. at this period. Subjects = newspaper workers; newspapers; occupations; Times of India
Bookbinders and type castors [of the 'Times of India'], - 1890 - Curwen, Kane & Co. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Portrait Photography Formal group portrait, posed outside the School of Art. Subjects = newspaper workers; newspapers; occupations; Times of India
Machinemen, pressmen and sepoys [of the 'Times of India'], - 1890 - Curwen, Kane & Co. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Portrait Photography Formal group portrait, posed outside the School of Art. Subjects = newspaper workers; newspapers; occupations; Times of India
Worker preparing thread for sari weaving. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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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.
Sari weaving, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man weaving with loom arranged on the verandah of a house. Photograph unsigned, but this is probably one of the series of views showing the processes of the manufacture of cotton fabrics shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See J. Forbes Watson, Vienna Unive...
Dyers at work, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dyers posed beside vats. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'The vats are of clay, and built in as shown in the picture. The furnace goes right under the vat, the fuel used...