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040-003184214 Subject Transportation

1. Photo 1180/4(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(4)
Title:
Street in Chitpore [Calcutta] shewing congested traffic. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Street scene in the north Calcutta district of Chitpur, showing the thoroughfare crowded with bullock carts loaded with bales of jute and other produce.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1180/4(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(21)
Title:
Overside loading jute from country-boats at Kidderpore Docks [Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing bales of jute being loaded onto a steamer at Calcutta, from barges moored alongside.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1180/4(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(8)
Title:
Exterior of [jute] press-house [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View of press-house buildings, probably at Calcutta, with bullock carts loaded with bales of jute in front of the buildings.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1180/4(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(17)
Title:
Exporting jute from press-house to rail [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing workers loading bales of jute from railway trolleys onto goods wagons.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1180/4(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(7)
Title:
Importing jute into press-house [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing a long line of bullock carts loaded with jute, queuing up to offload jute into the presshouse buildings, probably at Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1180/4(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(19)
Title:
Removing jute from wagons into shipping shed at Kidderpore Docks. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing two labourers shifting a bale of jute on a barrow from a goods wagon, at Kidderpore Docks, Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1180/4(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(5)
Title:
Jute on carts going to press-house [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing bullock carts loaded with unprocessed jute, at the entrance gate to a press house, presumably at Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1180/4(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(15)
Title:
Weighing jute at press-house for export [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View showing bales of jute being weighed and loaded onto railway flats in the yard of a press-house, probably at Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1180/4(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(9)
Title:
Yard of [jute] press-house at Chitpore [Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View looking across the yard of a press-house in the north Calcutta district of Chitpur, with labourers, bales of jute and bullock carts in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1180/4(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(20)
Title:
Loading jute from wharf into export steamer [at Kidderpore Docks, Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View on the dockside, showing bales of jute being loaded by crane onto a steamer.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item