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032-003184143 Subject Labourers

21. Photo 1180/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(2)
Title:
Beating clods of earth in jute field. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing two labourers beating clods of earth with long-handled mallets.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 1180/1(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(16)
Title:
Beating jute with mallets (thapans) and extracting fibre. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View showing a group of workers, posed thigh deep in the water, using flat-bladed wooden thapans to beat the bundles of jute.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 1180/2(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(6)
Title:
Importing jute from boats to sheds. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing labourers carrying bales of jute from local boats into the sheds, presumably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 1180/4(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(3)
Title:
Hatkhola (native bazar) coolies with jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of labourers, posed with bales of jute in front of a railway goods wagon, in the Hatkhola district of Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 1180/2(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(9)
Title:
Assorting jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
View in a shed, presumably at Narayanganj, showing labourers sorting bundles of jute for processing.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 1180/2(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(11)
Title:
Morahing for Bojhas. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing labourers coiling bundles of jute into coils, presumably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 1180/4(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(12)
Title:
Pressing jute [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing a massive hydraulic jute press in operation in the press-house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 1180/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(6)
Title:
Harrowing after the jute seeds are sown. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing an agricultural worker operating a bullock-drawn harrow in a jute field.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 1180/2(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(15)
Title:
Pressing jute (lashing). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
A photograph taken from the same position as print 14, showing a bundle of pressed jute being tied up. Photograph presumably taken at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 1180/2(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(7)
Title:
Importing jute from boats. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing labourers shifting bales of jute from a large barge onto a jetty, presumably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item