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Subject Labourers Material Type Photographs

101. Photo 1169(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1169(25)
Title:
[Woman tapping rubber, Ceylon.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Postcard view ('M. D. Uduman's copyright...Published by 'The Travellers Mart, 4 York and Baillie Street, Colombo'), showing a woman posed beside a rubber tree.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900s
Extent:
1 item

102. Photo 1178(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(1)
Title:
Haputale Railway. Temporary bridge and new 16 feet culvert at 15¾ miles — June 1893. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking towards the temporary bridge and culvert, with a locomotive in the centre of the span and railway labourers posed at the foot of the bridge.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1893
Extent:
1 item

103. Photo 1178(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(11)
Title:
Bandarawela Railway — Slip in cutting No. 26, June 1894. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view of the rockslip in the cutting, with a large body of railway labourers posed on the hillside and on the skyline.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Jun 1894
Extent:
1 item

104. Photo 1178(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178(26)
Title:
Matara Railway, November 1895. Cuttings Nos. 180 and 181 with ballast train. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
View looking down onto a ballast train crowded with labourers.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Nov 1895
Extent:
1 item

105. Photo 1180/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(2)
Title:
Beating clods of earth in jute field. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing two labourers beating clods of earth with long-handled mallets.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

106. Photo 1180/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(3)
Title:
Heavy laddering (preparing the earth) [in a jute field]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing two labourers at work with bullock-drawn laddering equipment, in a jute field.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

107. Photo 1180/1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(4)
Title:
Sowing jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing an agricultural labourer sprinkling seed on prepared ground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

108. Photo 1180/1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(5)
Title:
Light laddering previous to sowing [jute]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing a labourer operating bullock-drawn laddering equipment in a jute field.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

109. Photo 1180/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(6)
Title:
Harrowing after the jute seeds are sown. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing an agricultural worker operating a bullock-drawn harrow in a jute field.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

110. Photo 1180/1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(7)
Title:
Jute (the first weeding). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing a squatting line of agricultural workers weeding a jute field.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item