The common cotton gin or 'churka', from Berar. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Industrial Photography General view of wooden cotton gin. Photograph 'Enclosed in India Foreign Revenue Letter no. 23 Dec 22/66. Recd. Feb. 1867.'
Cotton stacks and 'churka' or cotton gin in operation, Berar. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a group of workers posed among piles of cotton. In the middleground two women operate a small churka or gin, while in the foreground a man is posed with a spinning wheel. Photograph 'Enclosed in India Foreign Revenue Letter no. 23 Dec 22/66. Recd. Feb. 1867.'
Non-photographic: Processes in the manufacture of Dacca muslims. Lithographic illustration from J. Forbes Watson, 'The textile manufactures and the costumes of the people of India' (London, 1866).
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing two men ginning cotton.
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Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (i).
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing a woman reeling cotton.
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Shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 248, catalogue no. 201 (ii).
Non-photographic: watercolour sketch by a Punjab artist of a cotton spinning wheel and spindle.
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Shown at the Delhi Exhibition of 1872. See Mildred Archer, 'Company drawings in the India Office Library' (HMSO, London, 1972), p. 227, catalogue no. 189 (i).