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).
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three figures seated at work on a verandah. Probably an exhibition photograph, unsigned but possibly by Shivashanker Narayen.
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.'
Sari weaving, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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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...
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).
Worker preparing thread for sari weaving. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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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.
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...
