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4811. Photo 1000/52(4941)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4941)
Title:
Sandalwood carvers at work. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three woodcarvers seated with examples of their work in the form of finely-carved wooden boxes. Print probably shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

4812. Photo 1000/52(4942)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4942)
Title:
Work-box makers, Bombay. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three box makers with examples of their trade (including carved and inlaid boxes and an album cover). A certificate of honorable mention awarded to Framjee Neerjeebhoy at the Paris Exhibition of 1867 is placed in the centre of the photograph. Photograph probabl...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

4813. Photo 1000/52(4943)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4943)
Title:
Two women grinding at a mill (studio reconstruction). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photograph probably shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

4814. Photo 1000/52(4944)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4944)
Title:
Women pounding and cleaning rice, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of two women, one using a pestle and mortar holding a tray of rice. Photographer's name on mount. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &c....Native women pounding and cleaning rice' by Nicholas & Cur...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

4815. Photo 1000/52(4945)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4945)
Title:
Women with curry stone and raggy mill, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing two women, one crushing spices, the other grinding raggy (a grain cultivated as a staple in food in Southern India) between two millstones. Photographer's name on mount. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

4816. Photo 1000/52(4946)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4946)
Title:
Two women grinding grain in the yard of a house. Photographer: Hooper and Western
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography An elderly and a younger women seated at a grindstone, watched by a young boy. This is presumably one of the series of views by Hooper & Western which were shown first at the London Exhibition of 1871 and later at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forbes Wa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

4817. Photo 1000/52(4947)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4947)
Title:
Grain sellers shop, (?)Bombay. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Merchants seated among wicker baskets of grain in front of their shop. Print probably shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

4818. Photo 1000/52(4948)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4948)
Title:
Oil mill, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Bullock team grinding down contents of a large wooden tank to produce (coconut?) oil. The animals are attached to an arm which turns the base of the container. Photographer's name on mount. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, oc...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

4819. Photo 1000/52(4949)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4949)
Title:
Mortar Mills, probably in the Krishna District. Photographer: Thompson, Ross
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Bullock teams attached to grinding wheels in the foreground, with brick kiln beyond. This is presumably one of the series of views by Thompson of irrigation works in the Krishna District which were shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, although this particular pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

4820. Photo 1000/52(4950)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4950)
Title:
Buffalo grinding mortar, Bombay. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Buffalo pulling a large grindstone attached to a wooden arm. The buildings in the background appear to be in the Fort area of Bombay. Probably a print shown at an international exhibition.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

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