Measuring labourers' work and storing salt [Sambhar Lake]. Photographer: Unknown
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Showing labourers carrying baskets of salt to a top of a large pile. In the foreground workers are gathered round smaller mounds of salt whose height is being measured. The lake was leased to the British authorities for salt extraction in 1870. Subjects = Dunlop Smith Collection; industries; s...
Yarkund Mission, 1873. — Group at Kurgallik. Photographer: Chapman, Edward Francis
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Genre: Historical Events Group of men of Kargilik (modern Yecheng) posed in a courtyard. This print also appears as plate 22 of Sir T. D. Forsyth's 'Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873' (Calcutta, 1875), entitled, 'Group of natives of Kargullik, Nov. 1873. Subjects = diplomatic missions; D...
Yarkund Mission, 1873. — Akhoe [tent] extraordinary. Photographer: Chapman, Edward Francis
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Genre: Historical Events Felt tent pitched in a courtyard at Yangi Hissar (modern Yengisar). This print also appears as plate 51 of Sir T. D. Forsyth's 'Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873' (Calcutta, 1875), entitled, 'Kirghiz Felt (Akoe) occupied by officers of the mission at Yangi Hissar.'...