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Subject Labourers Material Type Photographs

131. 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

132. 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

133. 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

134. 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

135. 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

136. Photo 1180/2(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(18)
Title:
Exporting jute (loading into flats from jetty). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing bales of jute being loaded onto a covered barge moored at the end of the jetty, probably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

137. Photo 1180/2(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(19)
Title:
Transhipping jute from rail to flat. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing labourers carrying bales of jute from goods wagons to the covered barges moored at the riverside, probably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

138. Photo 1180/2(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(20)
Title:
Transhipping jute (lachies) from rail to boats. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing labourers carrying bundles of jute from goods wagons to a country boat moored at the riverside, probably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

139. Photo 1180/4(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(2)
Title:
Hatkhola (native bazar). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing three labourers carrying bales of jute along a street in the Hatkhola district of Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

140. Photo 1180/4(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(3)
Title:
Hatkhola (native bazar) coolies with jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of labourers, posed with bales of jute in front of a railway goods wagon, in the Hatkhola district of Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item