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1. Photo 1000/52(4892)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4892)
Title:
Cotton stacks and 'churka' or cotton gin in operation, Berar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1866
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1000/52(4893)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4893)
Title:
The native loom or Mag, Berar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1866
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1000/52(4897)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4897)
Title:
Male prisoners winding cotton on spinning wheels in Karachi Prison. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1000/52(4898)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4898)
Title:
Female prisoners winding cotton on spinning wheels in Karachi Prison. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1000/52(4901)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4901)
Title:
Worker preparing thread for sari weaving. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Weaver crouching beside a spinning wheel, paying off thread to to a reel at the right. Photograph not credited, but probably one of the series of views of cotton manufacture shown by Shivashanker Narayen at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1000/52(4903)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4903)
Title:
Man operating a silk loom, Ghotal, Midnapur. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1000/52(4905)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4905)
Title:
Sari weaving, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man weaving with loom arranged on the verandah of a house. Photograph unsigned, but this is probably one of the series of views showing the processes of the manufacture of cotton fabrics shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. See J. Forbes Watson, Vienna Unive...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1000/52(4906)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4906)
Title:
Carpet weavers in Karachi Jail. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Line of carpet weavers seated at their looms in a shed. Portion of exhibition label from the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 on reverse of mount.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1000/52(4907)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4907)
Title:
Carpet weavers in Karachi Jail, working on carpet sent to the Vienna Exhibition. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1000/52(4909)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4909)
Title:
Dyers at work, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dyers posed beside vats. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'The vats are of clay, and built in as shown in the picture. The furnace goes right under the vat, the fuel used...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item