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1. Photo 257

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 257
Title:
Views of farming in India. Photographer(s): Beaton, Cecil
Scope & Content:
Loose prints depicting farming scenes in India. Possibility that some are by Cecil Beaton.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
7 items

2. Photo 257(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 257(1)
Title:
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
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 257(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 257(2)
Title:
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
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 257(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 257(3)
Title:
Hillside terraced for cultivation. Photographer: Press Information Bureau
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = agriculture; terrace cultivation
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 257(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 257(4)
Title:
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
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 257(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 257(5)
Title:
[Workers in] A paddy field. Photographer: Harding, Stan
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Subjects = agriculture; crops; farming; rice
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 257(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 257(6)
Title:
Punjab farmer with yoked oxen. Photographer: Popper, Paul
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Subjects = agriculture; cattle; farming; livestock
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 257(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 257(7)
Title:
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
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940s
Extent:
1 item