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31. Photo 1000/52(4909)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4909)
Title:
Dyers at work, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

32. Photo 1000/52(4910)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4910)
Title:
Cloth stamper, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Cloth stamper seated at a low table on the verandah of a house. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'Printing...This is done by wooden stamps, which are charged with the colouring ma...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

33. Photo 1000/52(4911)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4911)
Title:
Silk design knotters. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three figures seated at work on a verandah. Probably an exhibition photograph, unsigned but possibly by Shivashanker Narayen.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 1168/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(2)
Title:
Cotton cart and team [probably in the Cocanada district]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Side view of a wooden cotton cart, drawn by a team of oxen.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

35. Photo 1168/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(14)
Title:
A Bombay cotton merchant and his associates. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of cotton brokers and workers, posed in front of large bales of cotton. For a similar view, but with different figures posed in front of the same bales of cotton, see Vidya Dehejia (ed), 'India through the Lens. Photography 1840-1911' (...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item

36. Photo 1172/1(140)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(140)
Title:
Carts of cotton, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a town street with two bullock-drawn carts loaded with cotton, and men drivers; houses in the background: 'Cotton being carted from field to ginning factory Khandwa, November.' (note on back of print)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep-
Extent:
1 item

37. Photo 1172/1(161)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(161)
Title:
Women carrying cotton from field to village. These huge loads are too heavy for one person to lift, but once on their heads, these are carried long distances [probably Mhow district]. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1941
Extent:
1 item

38. Photo 1172/1(168)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(168)
Title:
Women carrying 'bales' of cotton to Mhow. This is the open, unirrigated country between Kodria and Patalpani. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Distant snapshot of women.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1941
Extent:
1 item

39. Photo 1224/2(87)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(87)
Title:
Delhi. Embroiderer. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and numbered Shepherd and Robertson Photo:1125 in the negative but cropped in the print. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalague as 'Embroiderer.' The image shows two men, one seated on a chair another on the ground, weaving at a handloom.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

40. Photo 1224/2(166)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/2(166)
Title:
Cloth Merchants [Kashmir]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Kashmir and Ladakh were visited by album compiler between 3 April and 30 November 1878. Studio portrait of two cloth sellers, arranged with bolts of material in front of a cloth backdrop. Photograph unsigned, but possibly from the Frith Series.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

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