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Subject Labourers Material Type Photographs

91. Photo 1148(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(21)
Title:
Burden bearers of Japan — a street scene in Tokyo. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Stereoscopic view, a street scene, with figures in the foreground carrying baskets slung on yokes across their shoulders and shops behind.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

92. Photo 1148(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(75)
Title:
Patient laborers transplanting rice-sheets on a new farm in beautiful interior of Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

93. Photo 1148(76)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(76)
Title:
Girls picking tea on famous plantation at Uji, among the sunny hills of old Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

94. Photo 1152(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1152(5)
Title:
Rab scales — Weighing raw produce on beam. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View showing produce being weighed on the Rosa sugar estate, near Shahjahanpur, with a large group of agricultural labourers and several European estate assistants.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1881-1887
Extent:
1 item

95. Photo 1152(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1152(6)
Title:
Rab carts [Rosa sugar estate, near Shahjahanpur]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View showing two lines of carts loaded with harvested cane, with agricultural labourers posed beside them.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1881-1887
Extent:
1 item

96. Photo 1161(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1161(54)
Title:
Iapanischer Landmann in Wintertracht. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length standing studio portrait of a Japanese peasant in winter dress, consisting of a grass coat.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

97. Photo 1161(84)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1161(84)
Title:
Iapanische Landleute in Früiahr auf dem Reisfelde. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of three Japanese agricultural labourers at work in a paddy field in the springtime.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

98. Photo 1167(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(20)
Title:
Treading earth to form the walls of a new house at Kibber, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'In Kibber, a man treads moist earth to form the walls of his new house. In the background women return from working the fields. The earth has been dug from the hillside and then sieved and mixed with water from a nearby stream. It seems as much a reshaping of the landscape as a process of build...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1995
Extent:
1 item

99. Photo 1167(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1167(30)
Title:
Roadworkers tarring the road to Kaza, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
Scope & Content:
'Roadworkers tarring the road to Kaza. Metalled roads are being constructed all over the valley. They require regular maintenance to repair damage caused by the extreme climate in Spiti. The workers, mainly young women, shatter stones into small pieces which they mix with hot tar in trays and t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jul 1996
Extent:
1 item

100. Photo 1169(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1169(24)
Title:
Estate coolies, Ceylon. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Postcard view ('M. D. Uduman's copyright...Published by 'The Travellers Mart, 4 York and Baillie Street, Colombo'), a group portrait of estate labourers (a man, two women and a child).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item