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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1180 Subject Architecture Material Type Photographs

1. Photo 1180/2(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(9)
Title:
Assorting jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View in a shed, presumably at Narayanganj, showing labourers sorting bundles of jute for processing.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1180/2(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(10)
Title:
Assorting jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Similar to print 9, showing labourers sorting bundles of jute for processing, presumably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1180/2(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(11)
Title:
Morahing for Bojhas. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing labourers coiling bundles of jute into coils, presumably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1180/2(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(12)
Title:
Carrying bojhas [bundles of jute] to press house. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing a line of labourers carrying loads of coiled jute into the press house, with a European overseer posed in the foreground. Photograph presumably taken at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1180/2(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(13)
Title:
Making ropes for tying bales [of jute]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View looking along a ropehouse shed, presumably at Narayanganj, with workers (including young children) making rope.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1180/2(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(14)
Title:
Pressing jute (filling boxes). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Interior view of the press house, showing bales of jute in the pressing machinery. Photograph presumably taken at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1180/2(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(15)
Title:
Pressing jute (lashing). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
A photograph taken from the same position as print 14, showing a bundle of pressed jute being tied up. Photograph presumably taken at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1180/2(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(16)
Title:
Pressing (removing finished bales [of jute] from press). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing pressed and tied up bales of jute being removed from the machinery. Photograph presumably taken at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1180/3(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/3(1)
Title:
View of jute mill from across river. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View looking across the river towards the buildings of a jute mill on the far bank. This probably shows the Barnagore Jute Mill, just north of Calcutta (see prints 2-3).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1180/3(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/3(2)
Title:
General view of jute mill. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
General view looking over the buildings of a jute mill. This is presumably the same mill as the one seen in print 3, in which case this is the Barnagore Jute Mill, in the northern suburbs of Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item