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.'
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).
Non-photographic: watercolour sketch by a Punjab artist of a weaver at Delhi.
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography 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 (ii).
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing the process of weaving.
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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).
Copper and iron mining scenes, Alwar. Photographer: Cadell, Thomas
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Genre: Industrial Photography One of the series of photographs shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. The six views in the series appear to relate to two catalogue entries, three of iron mining activities and three of copper. Without expert knowledge it is difficult to be certain which is whic...