Carrying rice straw, Bengal. Photographer: Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Possibly by Beaton. Label on reverse reads: 'British official photograph (Ministry of Information)...Bringing back bundles of straw, used for protective covering on the rice fields'. Subjects = agriculture; crops; farming; rice
Women grinding millet, South India. Photographer: Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Possibly by Beaton. Note on reverse reads: 'By permission of the Methodist Missionary Society, of the Rev C.G. Early and of the Central Office of Information...'. Subjects = food and drink; food preparation; women
Ploughing in South India. Photographer: Harding, Stan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Label on reverse reads: 'The bulls in the foreground are of a breed which produce the finest draft animals of the South'. Subjects = agriculture; cattle; farming; livestock; ploughing
Carrying cotton in Bombay cotton country. Photographer: Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Possibly by Cecil Beaton. Label on reverse reads: 'Indian 'Land Girl' helps with the bumper cotton harvest. An Indian village belle from the cotton country near Bombay with a load of newly harvested cotton'. Subjects = agriculture; cotton; crops; farming