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Subject Containers Material Type Photographs

121. Photo 1202/4(24)

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Photo 1202/4(24)
Title:
China [figure with baskets]. Photographer: Michael Katakis
Scope & Content:
Rear view of a young man or woman, carrying two wicker baskets on a yoke across his/her shoulder.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1986
Extent:
1 item

122. Photo 1224/2(106)

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Photo 1224/2(106)
Title:
Banya's Shop [Delhi]. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:
Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson, Photo: 1121 in the negative. Full-length portrait of two seated men seated in front of a shop, one holding a weighing balance.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1862
Extent:
1 item

123. Photo 1224/3(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(78)
Title:
Opium Smokers. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Studio portrait of two men lying on a cot smoking opium.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

124. Photo 1224/3(82)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(82)
Title:
Rain Coats. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Portrait of three men, the figure in the centre holding an umbrella, those on either side wearing straw raincoats..
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

125. Photo 1224/4(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(57)
Title:
Natives of Java. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Full-length studio portrait of a woman seated on a mat with a basket on her left. Image in carte de visite format.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

126. Photo 1224/4(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/4(72)
Title:
Cochin China. Animites [Annamites, i.e.Vietnamese]. Photographer: Émile Gsell
Scope & Content:
Carte de visite size portrait of two children, seated in wicker baskets and apparently playing some kind of game involving coins or counters.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870-1879
Extent:
1 item

127. Photo 1246/2(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1246/2(14)
Title:
[Botanical study: Saccolabium Guttatum]. Photographer(s): Llewelyn, John Dillwyn (1810-1882)
Scope & Content:
View of a plant in a wooden container. Alternative title "Saccolabium Guttatum / Rhynchostylis Retusa - the fox-brush or fox-tail orchid"; plant native to south east Asia including India; Salted paper print from collodion negative; corners trimmed; fading and yellowing from edges. Inscription...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1853
Extent:
1 item

128. Photo 1253/1(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(15)
Title:
On the very northern edge of Kabul. A shipping container is re-purposed as home to men working in a yard casting concrete blast walls. Each section, when sold to foreign embassies or the military, fetches $1000 per piece. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of two shipping containers stacked on each other with a ladder leaning on the side of the container. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

129. Photo 1253/1(90)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(90)
Title:
One of the huge logistics compounds at Camp Leatherneck. A modern, technologized army needs hundreds of thousands of different kinds of objects in order to keep it working. A $100m warplane can be grounded for the want of a $1 part. Supplying these things is a huge drain on an army’s resources and its greatest vulnerability. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of rows of shipping containers; two people are standing in the middle of the rows. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromoge...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

130. Photo 1253/1(92)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(92)
Title:
The seemingly endless number of helicopter pads and hangars at Camp Bastion. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of an airfield surrounded by hangers, containers and tents. A Chinook helicopter is taking off on the right. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

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