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Subject Labourers Level [40] File

221. Photo 1152(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1152(6)
Title:
Rab carts [Rosa sugar estate, near Shahjahanpur]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View showing two lines of carts loaded with harvested cane, with agricultural labourers posed beside them.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1881-1887
Extent:
1 item

222. Photo 1161(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1161(54)
Title:
Iapanischer Landmann in Wintertracht. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length standing studio portrait of a Japanese peasant in winter dress, consisting of a grass coat.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

223. Photo 1161(84)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1161(84)
Title:
Iapanische Landleute in Früiahr auf dem Reisfelde. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of three Japanese agricultural labourers at work in a paddy field in the springtime.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

224. Photo 1167(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(20)
Title:
Treading earth to form the walls of a new house at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'In Kibber, a man treads moist earth to form the walls of his new house. In the background women return from working the fields. The earth has been dug from the hillside and then sieved and mixed with water from a nearby stream. It seems as much a reshaping of the landscape as a process of build...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1995
Extent:
1 item

225. Photo 1167(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(30)
Title:
Roadworkers tarring the road to Kaza, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Roadworkers tarring the road to Kaza. Metalled roads are being constructed all over the valley. They require regular maintenance to repair damage caused by the extreme climate in Spiti. The workers, mainly young women, shatter stones into small pieces which they mix with hot tar in trays and t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1996
Extent:
1 item

226. Photo 1169(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1169(24)
Title:
Estate coolies, Ceylon. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Postcard view ('M. D. Uduman's copyright...Published by 'The Travellers Mart, 4 York and Baillie Street, Colombo'), a group portrait of estate labourers (a man, two women and a child).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

227. Photo 1169(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1169(25)
Title:
[Woman tapping rubber, Ceylon.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Postcard view ('M. D. Uduman's copyright...Published by 'The Travellers Mart, 4 York and Baillie Street, Colombo'), showing a woman posed beside a rubber tree.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

228. Photo 1178(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(1)
Title:
Haputale Railway. Temporary bridge and new 16 feet culvert at 15¾ miles — June 1893. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking towards the temporary bridge and culvert, with a locomotive in the centre of the span and railway labourers posed at the foot of the bridge.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1893
Extent:
1 item

229. Photo 1178(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(11)
Title:
Bandarawela Railway — Slip in cutting No. 26, June 1894. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view of the rockslip in the cutting, with a large body of railway labourers posed on the hillside and on the skyline.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1894
Extent:
1 item

230. Photo 1178(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(26)
Title:
Matara Railway, November 1895. Cuttings Nos. 180 and 181 with ballast train. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking down onto a ballast train crowded with labourers.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1895
Extent:
1 item

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