Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length full-face portrait of a sweeper: 'Called a metar ... Was very bucked at being asked to pose for this. Stood stiffly to attention.' (note on back of print)
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-size portrait of a man dressed in shorts and a shirt, sitting outdoors and marking laundry clothes: 'Our Dhobi (laundryman) To mark your clothes ... he sticks a needle into a hard nut, full of black juice, and lays it along your laundry, or to make a dot, pierce...
Beating tobacco - Khandwa, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of a man seated on the ground amongst crushed tobacco leaves in the foreground, and baskets piled with tobacco leaves adn another male figure on the steps of a building in the background.
Bird-scarers' huts, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a small plot of potatoes in the foreground and a corn field with huts and people in it in the background: 'Maize field in September. Huts for the watchers and bird-scarers who protect the fields.' (note on back of print)
Cutting grass with sickle, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of a female figure cutting grass in a field, with bundles of hay in the foreground: 'Cutting hay with a sickle. No modern implements are to be seen near here. The grass grows to chest height & is very coarse. October.' (note on back of print)
Bunya (grain) shops - Khandwa, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
View of two stalls with containers full of grain, a male customer with a little girl in his arms in the foreground, and the shop-keepers in the background.
View of street traders at a street corner in Mhow: 'A very typical scene in Mhow when fruit is for sale. Everybody squats here at the slightest excuse. Bargaining, probably an argument over a few 'pies', 1/12 of 1d, is universal ... The numbers on the buildings are army index numbers. Most stree...