Java. Painting Sarongs. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Women at work on batik pieces on the verandah of a house. 'Production of kain batik on K .F.Holle's plantation Waspada near Garut. Kain means cloth, while batik refers to a traditional technique of painting textile.' (Steven Wachlin, Woodbury and Page (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), p. 98). Photog...
Letters home by Charles James and Morton P. Lucas during their round the world tour of 1877-79. Volume 1.
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This volume covers the period 27 September 1877 to 24 July 1878. It includes fair copies of letters written on the journey from Southampton to Bombay, and from Ootacamund, Trichinopoly, Tanjore, Ceylon, Calcutta, Agra, Bharatpur, Delhi, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Srinagar, Bandipur, Gulmarg and Leh.