Women selling vegetables from a basket (studio reconstruction). Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of two women seated with a basket of vegetable produce. Probably a print shown at an international exhibition.
Country shoe makers, probably in Western India. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of shoemakers seated at work on the verandah of the workshop. With label from Vienna Exhibition of 1873 on the reverse.
Blacksmith at work (studio reconstruction). Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of two men shaping a piece of metal, with a woman seated to the right (operating bellows). Probably a print shown at an international exhibition.
Washermen at work beside a river or pond. Photographer: Hooper and Western
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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...
Maty boys (under-servants) at work. Photographer: Hooper and Western
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing two servants at work, one washing crockery, the other pouring water into a teapot. 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...
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist the process of boiling molasses in water to make sugar.
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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 (iv).
