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Subject Labourers Material Type Photographs

141. Photo 1180/4(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(9)
Title:
Yard of [jute] press-house at Chitpore [Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View looking across the yard of a press-house in the north Calcutta district of Chitpur, with labourers, bales of jute and bullock carts in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

142. Photo 1180/4(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(10)
Title:
Assorting jute in godown [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View inside a warehouse in a jute press-house, showing labourers sorting coils of jute.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

143. Photo 1180/4(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(11)
Title:
Cutting off the roots of jute in press-house [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing two workers cutting jute in a press-house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

144. Photo 1180/4(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(12)
Title:
Pressing jute [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing a massive hydraulic jute press in operation in the press-house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

145. Photo 1180/4(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(13)
Title:
Pressing jute [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
A second view of the jute press, also seen in print 12, in operation in a press-house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

146. Photo 1180/4(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(14)
Title:
Pressing jute (the cyclone press) [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View of workers operating a massive jute press, probably in a Calcutta press-house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

147. Photo 1180/4(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(15)
Title:
Weighing jute at press-house for export [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing bales of jute being weighed and loaded onto railway flats in the yard of a press-house, probably at Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

148. Photo 1180/4(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(16)
Title:
Weighing jute [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Close view of a bale of jute being weighed on scales under the superintendence of a European manager, with workers posed in the background.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

149. Photo 1180/4(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(17)
Title:
Exporting jute from press-house to rail [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing workers loading bales of jute from railway trolleys onto goods wagons.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

150. Photo 1180/4(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(18)
Title:
Exporting jute from press-house to boats [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing bales of jute being lowered by crane from a jetty, onto barges moored alongside. Probably photographed on the Hugli at Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item