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Subject Textile industry

31. Photo 1000/52(4904)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4904)
Title:
Non-photographic: Watercolour by a Bombay artist showing the process of weaving.
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

32. Photo 1000/52(4905)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4905)
Title:
Sari weaving, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

33. Photo 1000/52(4909)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4909)
Title:
Dyers at work, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of dyers posed beside vats. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'The vats are of clay, and built in as shown in the picture. The furnace goes right under the vat, the fuel used...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 1000/52(4910)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4910)
Title:
Cloth stamper, Western India. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Cloth stamper seated at a low table on the verandah of a house. This is probably the photograph shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873, and described in the catalogue as follows: 'Printing...This is done by wooden stamps, which are charged with the colouring ma...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

35. Photo 1000/52(4911)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/52(4911)
Title:
Silk design knotters. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three figures seated at work on a verandah. Probably an exhibition photograph, unsigned but possibly by Shivashanker Narayen.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

36. Photo 1168/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(2)
Title:
Cotton cart and team [probably in the Cocanada district]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Side view of a wooden cotton cart, drawn by a team of oxen.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

37. Photo 1168/1(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1168/1(14)
Title:
A Bombay cotton merchant and his associates. Photographer: Johnson and Henderson
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of cotton brokers and workers, posed in front of large bales of cotton. For a similar view, but with different figures posed in front of the same bales of cotton, see Vidya Dehejia (ed), 'India through the Lens. Photography 1840-1911' (...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item

38. Photo 1172/1(140)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(140)
Title:
Carts of cotton, Mhow. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a town street with two bullock-drawn carts loaded with cotton, and men drivers; houses in the background: 'Cotton being carted from field to ginning factory Khandwa, November.' (note on back of print)
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Sep-
Extent:
1 item

39. Photo 1172/1(161)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(161)
Title:
Women carrying cotton from field to village. These huge loads are too heavy for one person to lift, but once on their heads, these are carried long distances [probably Mhow district]. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1941
Extent:
1 item

40. Photo 1172/1(168)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1172/1(168)
Title:
Women carrying 'bales' of cotton to Mhow. This is the open, unirrigated country between Kodria and Patalpani. Photographer: Uppadine, A. D.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Distant snapshot of women.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1941
Extent:
1 item

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