Steam wharf to the P.O.S.N. Comp., Calcutta. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Industrial Photography View looking across an area strewn with metal boilers and other equipment, towards a sailing ship moored in the background. A sheerlegs is in operation at the quayside.
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.'
Oil mill, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Bullock team grinding down contents of a large wooden tank to produce (coconut?) oil. The animals are attached to an arm which turns the base of the container. Photographer's name on mount. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, oc...
[Resting by Water Pump.] Photographer: Bridges, George Wilson
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Genre: Portrait Photography Posed photograph of a man sitting by a water pump with jugs and pails positioned on the flagstone ground. Chemistry float-applied on paper 194 x 246 mm. Print torn in several places (image intact).