Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across tank towards the Calcutta School of Art. Subjects = British colonial architecture; education; European architecture in India; schools
[Roadside vegetable seller.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two women selling produce at the roadside, with a young boy making a purchase. Print unsigned, but probably by Nicholas & Co. Subjects = occupations; street traders
[Woman being carried in a jampan.] Photographer: Unknown
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Unidentified woman being carried along a hill path in a jampan or open chair slung on poles. Location unknown, but possibly in the Darjeeling area. Sterepscopic print. Subjects = jampans; palanquins; road transport; stereoscopic prints; transport
[Jugglers, South India.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing a man securing a woman in a rope net preparatory to placing her in a basket, with a boy with a drum at the right. Probably the print listed in the Nicholas & Co. catalogue as '30. Jugglers, showing the basket trick'. Subjects = entertainers; jugg...
[Toddy tappers, Madras district.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Toddy tapper posed half-way up a tree, with a figure in the foreground carrying two jars of toddy slung on a yoke over his shoulder. Probably the print listed in the Nicholas & Co. catalogue as '40. Toddyman climbing a cocoanut tree.' Subjects = food and ...
[Dancing girls, South India.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait of three dancing girls in their finery. Probably the print listed in the Nicholas & Co. catalogue as '56. Dancing girls, (several subjects, groups)'. Subjects = dance
[Servant girls, South India.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Studio portrait against a painted backdrop of a young woman carrying two pots, with a younger girl standing beside her. Possibly the print listed in the Nicholas & Co. catalogue as '24. Cook and cook's maty [assistant]'. Subjects = occupations; servants