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51. 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

52. 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

53. Photo 451/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(6)
Title:
A contract labourer of the Koya Tribe of Central India carrying a basket of green tea leaf [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Koya man standing among tea bushes. Subjects = agriculture; contract labourers; crops; ethnic groups; industries; Koyas; labour; tea; tea industry
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 451/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(7)
Title:
A woman contract labourer of the Koya Tribe with a basket of green leaf. These primitive forest people turn enthusiastically from Mother Eve's fashions to conventional Indian dress and adornment [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Koya woman standing among tea bushes. Subjects = agriculture; contract labourers; crops; ethnic groups; industries; Koyas; labour; tea; tea industry
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 451/1(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(16)
Title:
Preparing the seed. The mass of vegetation in the background gives an idea of the density of the virgin jungles of Assam before the area was cleared for tea planting. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Workers hoeing and planting in the seed beds. Subjects = agriculture; crops; industries; plantations; tea; tea industry
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

56. Photo 451/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(20)
Title:
Chest-high among the closely growing tea bushes. A gang of women plucking leaf from a mature area. Tea like this gives as much as 1600 lbs per acre [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = agriculture; crops; industries; labour; plantations; tea; tea industry
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

57. 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

58. 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

59. Photo 451/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(5)
Title:
A typical contract labourer from the Munda tribe of Chota Nagpur. These men serve a term of three years in Assam with the right of repatriation on completion. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three-quarter length portrait of a Munda man standing among tea plants. Subjects = contract labourers; ethnic groups; industries; labour; Mundas; tea industry
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 451/1(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 451/1(35)
Title:
Tea sold for consumption abroad being loaded for shipment at the warehouses near the docks [Calcutta]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Tea chests being loaded onto lorries from the station platform. Subjects = industrial processes; industries; lorries; road transport; tea industry; transport
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1950
Extent:
1 item