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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 451 Level [41] Item

21. Photo 451/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(21)
Title:
Two leaves and a bud only are plucked. (These samples have far too much stalk) [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Tea plucker holding tea samples. Subjects = agriculture; crops; industries; labour; plantations; tea; tea industry
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 451/1(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(22)
Title:
The green [tea] leaf in baskets is carried to the factory for weighing in - Jamirah Tea Estate [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Lines of tea pluckers queueing outside the tea estate factory. Subjects = industries; labour; tea industry Location = Assam; India; Jamirah
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 451/1(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(23)
Title:
Small boys spread the leaf on the shelves or 'chungs' of the withering house. it will remain there until soft and flaccid but still retaining its green colour [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Subjects = industrial buildings; industrial processes; industries; interiors; tea factories; tea industry
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 451/1(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(24)
Title:
The second process of tea manufacture - rolling by machine. In this process the leaf is bruised and twisted. Juice expressed in the process can be clearly seen on the rolling room floor. [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Row of rolling machines inside the estate factory. Subjects = industrial buildings; industrial processes; industries; interiors; machinery; tea factories; tea industry; tea rolling machines
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 451/1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(25)
Title:
In the cool half darkness of the fermenting room the rolled leaf lies on beds of polished and sterilised glass or concrete. Within the space of an hour or two, it changes from green to a bright copper colour. [Upper Assam.] Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Subjects = industrial buildings; industrial processes; industries; interiors; tea factories; tea industry
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 451/1(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(26)
Title:
After passing through a mechanical drying machine, the leaf is sorted into the grades known to commerce. This is the sorting and bulking room at Jamirah Tea Factory [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Subjects = industrial buildings; industrial processes; industries; interiors; tea factories; tea industry Location = Assam; India; Jamirah
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 451/1(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(27)
Title:
Tea packed into chests marked with the garden name at Jamirah Factory. The vibrating packing machine is in the left background. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Subjects = industrial buildings; industrial processes; industries; interiors; machinery; tea factories; tea industry; tea packing machines Location = Assam; India; Jamirah
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 451/1(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(28)
Title:
The River Brahmaputra still carries the bulk of Assam's tea crop. Chests of tea leaving the railway wagon for a river steamer. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Quayside scene, with labourers carrying chests of tea onto the river steamer Swati. Subjects = industries; named vessels; river steamers; steamers; Swati (river steamer); tea industry; transport; water transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 451/1(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(29)
Title:
Arrival at Calcutta - a human conveyor belt unloads tea chests into the transit sheds. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Tea being unloaded from the river steamer Magok, with a smaller river steamer, the Joan, moored in the foreground. Subjects = industries; Joan (river steamer); Magok (river steamer); named vessels; river steamers; steamers; tea industry; transport; water transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 451/1(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(30)
Title:
The weight of each chest is checked carefully as it passes into the Calcutta Sale Tea Warehouse. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Chests being weighed in the warehouse of the Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta, operated by Balmer Lawrie & Co., Ltd. Subjects = industrial buildings; industrial processes; industries; interiors; machinery; tea industry; tea warehouses; weighing machines
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item