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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/51(4869)
Title:: Country gopurum or bullock carriage, Guindy, Madras. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Side view of wooden, two-wheeled cart, drawn by a pair of bullocks. With exhibition label from the South Kensington Exhibition of 1873.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/51(4874)
Title:: Street scene with bullock-drawn wagon, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Wagon drawn by a team of six bullocks. The caption draws attention to 'Leather trusses and leather seat for front driver'. The print mount is signed 'Shivashanker Narayen, Photographer. G.W. Terry dirext.' Terry was Head of the Bombay School of Art.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/52(4906)
Title:: Carpet weavers in Karachi Jail. Photographer: Michie and Company
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Line of carpet weavers seated at their looms in a shed. Portion of exhibition label from the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 on reverse of mount.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/52(4913)
Title:: Zunlozis, Gold lace makers, Delhi. Photographer: Shepherd and Robertson
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man seated at loom, watched by a figure seated at his side. The following letterpress description, probably extracted from an exhibition catalogue, is laid down on the page beneath the print: 'No. 6. - Zunlozis or scarf weavers. - These are sometime Mussulmans,...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/52(4939)
Title:: Group of carpenters at work, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group posed with various tools. Photographer's name on mount. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &c....Native carpenters at work' by Nicholas & Curths, shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forbes wats...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/52(4965)
Title:: Group of jugglers and musicians, Madras. Photographer: Nicholas and Curths
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio group. The sword-swallower from print 4964 also appears in this group. From the series of 'Photographs illustrating various native classes, occupations, &c....Native jugglers,' by Nicholas & Curths, shown at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J. Forb...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/53(4996)
Title:: Woman carrying a water pot, Madras. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a woman posed in front of green curtains, an earthenware pot balanced on her head. A crudely hand-coloured salt print.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1852
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/53(4998)
Title:: Coffee cleaners and overseer, Kandy, Ceylon. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

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