Dyers at work, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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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...
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).
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.'
Elephant stacking baulks of teak timber in the timber yard of the Bombay-Burma Trading Corporation Limited, Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Genre: Industrial Photography Duplicate copy (in slightly brighter condition) at print 4305.
Elephant stacking baulks of teak timber in the timber yard of the Bombay-Burma Trading Corporation Limited, Rangoon. Photographer: Klier, Philip Adolphe
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Genre: Landscape Photography Duplicate copy (in slightly brighter condition) of print 3922.