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Subject Labourers Material Type Photographs

1. 1784.a.14(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.14(37)
Title:
Loading cars with guano at the great heap, Chincha Islands. Photographer: Moulton, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography Showing labourers with wheelbarrows shifting guano onto railway trolleys at the base of the heap seen in print 36.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

2. 1784.a.14(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.14(38)
Title:
Strata of guano, Chincha Islands. Photographer: Moulton, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography Close view of a section of the great guano heap, with two labourers working with pickaxes at the base.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

3. 1784.a.14(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.14(42)
Title:
Emptying cars of guano into the shoot, Chincha Islands. Photographer: Moulton, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography Showing labourers, under armed guard, emptying the horse-drawn railway trolleys of guano at the cliff-face. In the foreground, a foreman or overseer is self-consciously posed in the act of a handing a coin to one of the workers.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

4. 1784.a.14(67)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.14(67)
Title:
Chinamen working guano — Great Heap — Chincha Islands. Photographer: Moulton, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View showing Chinese labourers engaged in hacking guano from the great heap for transport to the ships.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1863
Extent:
1 item

5. 1787.d.7, 1(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(25)
Title:
Four heads [23-26], types of the labouring classes. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Half-length of a young man of the labouring classes, 'stripped to the waist, as is his wont during the hours of toil...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

6. 1787.d.7, 1(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(40)
Title:
Tea picking in Canton. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of four women, seated at a table in the open, sorting tea: 'Black teas, after being partially dried in the sun, and slightly fired, are rolled either by the palm of the hand on a flat tray, or by the foot in a hempen bag. They are scorched in...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

7. 1787.d.7, 1(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(42)
Title:
Rolling scented caper and gunpowder teas. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two men, supported by their arms from a beam, rolling bags of tea into large balls with their feet.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

8. 1787.d.7, 1(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(43)
Title:
Weighing tea for exportation. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View showing tea being weighed on scales supported by sheerlegs, with a European figure seated in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

9. 1787.d.7, 1(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(44)
Title:
A tea house, Canton. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) 'A number of men may be seen during the tea season in front of the house, employed, as shown in the photograph, in picking, sampling, and sorting the tea, or in preparing the chests for its reception...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

10. 1787.d.7, 2(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 2(23)
Title:
A venerable head. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders left half-profile portrait of an elderly Chinese man, 'a labourer, and, although over eighty, still earns a living as a porter'.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item