Album of miscellaneous views including tea industry and sports. Photographer(s): J. A. Vellancey, H. A. Mirza and Sons and others
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Black full-leather album, 190x255mm, containing mostly uncaptioned mounted prints. Nothing is known about the origins of this collection, which contains photographs covering a range of subjects and locations including: tea picking and processing in West Bengal, the Andaman Islanders, tennis, hor...
[View of women and children picking tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
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Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. Possibly by the same photographer identified in Print 5.
[View of plantation workers hoeing tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
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Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. An annotation below the print reads: 'J. A. Vellancey, Calcutta, 1909', probably the photographer responsible for this and other tea plantation prints in this collection, alt...
[View of plantation workers picking tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
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Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. The estate manager and two assistants are standing in the field (see Print 17 for portraits). An annotation below the print reads: 'Taken by J. A. Vellancey, Assam 1909'. Dup...
[Baskets of tea being weighed.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
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Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. The photographer is almost certainly J. A. Vellancey.
[View of tea leaves spread out on trays in a withering house.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
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Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. The photographer is almost certainly J. A. Vellancey.
[View of machine room where tea is rolled?] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Scope & Content:
Probably in one of the gardens of the Buxa Dooars Tea Co Ltd (at Kalchini and Raimatang) in West Bengal, bordering Assam. The photographer is almost certainly J. A. Vellancey.