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Subject Spinning Apparatus

1. 1783.cc.20(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1783.cc.20(10)
Title:
Manáos. Une famille de Tapuyas, à la porte de leur maison, dans une rue de la ville. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of a Tapuya family at Manaus, posed in front of the entrance to their home. The walls of the row of houses are constructed of baked mud bricks with wattle courses. A woman sits with a spinning wheel on the left (see also print 41).
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

2. 1783.cc.20(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
1783.cc.20(41)
Title:
Manáus. Une fileuse. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of a young woman with a wooden spinning wheel, photographed in front of a house in Manaus. The same location (and the spinning wheel) can also be seen in print 10.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.7, 3(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(12)
Title:
Spinning cotton. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a women operating 'a simple spinning machine driven by the foot...The picture has an additional attraction as showing the winter dress of a Shanghai mother and child of the labouring class...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869-1872
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 49352(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 49352(25)
Title:
[Portrait of Japanese women (?)reeling silk.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in Japanese in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of two women, one seated before silk-reeling equipment, the other holding a line of silk. A child is eated in the left foreground, chopping fish on a board.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 58773(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 58773(78)
Title:
[Indian woman spinning.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Showing an Indian woman with her spinning wheel.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

6. Add Or 5742

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5742
Title:
Goldsmith or silversmith and his wife spinning thread.
Scope & Content:
A goldsmith or silversmith at work; his wife stands holding a spool of thread and spinning equipment. Inscribed: 'Thattan. Thattathee.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
circa 1840
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1000/52(4892)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4892)
Title:
Cotton stacks and 'churka' or cotton gin in operation, Berar. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1866
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1000/52(4897)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4897)
Title:
Male prisoners winding cotton on spinning wheels in Karachi Prison. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1000/52(4898)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4898)
Title:
Female prisoners winding cotton on spinning wheels in Karachi Prison. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1000/52(4899)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4899)
Title:
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing a woman reeling cotton.
Scope & Content:
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).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item