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81. 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

82. Photo 1000/52(4900)

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

83. Photo 1000/52(4918)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4918)
Title:
Potters at work, near Karachi Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Scene in a pottery, with two potters at their wheels, a man in the foreground and finished work stacked behind. This print is from the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and is described as follows: 'Photograph showing potters' yard, on the bank of the 'Lyaree' River, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

84. 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

85. Photo 1000/52(4953)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4953)
Title:
Butcher's shop, Hyderabad. Photographer: Hooper and Western
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three men posed round chopping block in front of shop, with meat hanging from hooks. 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. Forb...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

86. 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

87. Photo 1000/52(4892)

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

88. 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

89. Photo 1000/52(4920)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4920)
Title:
Potters at work with a stone wheel, Karachi Jail. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography This print is from the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and is described as follows: 'The man in the centre of the picture is represented putting his wheel in motion [with a length of wood]. When it has acquired sufficient velocity, the stick is thrown aside and the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

90. Photo 1000/52(4907)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4907)
Title:
Carpet weavers in Karachi Jail, working on carpet sent to the Vienna Exhibition. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item