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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/52(4896)
Title:: Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing two men ginning 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 (i).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1873
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/52(4904)
Title:: Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing the process of weaving.
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/52(4905)
Title:: Sari weaving, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1873
Extent:: 1 item

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