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61. Photo 1180/4(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(4)
Title:
Street in Chitpore [Calcutta] shewing congested traffic. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Street scene in the north Calcutta district of Chitpur, showing the thoroughfare crowded with bullock carts loaded with bales of jute and other produce.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

62. Photo 1180/3(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/3(6)
Title:
General view of coolie lines [of a jute mill]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
View looking across tanks towards rows of wortkers' accommodation in a jute mill, probably at the Barnagore Jute Mill, north of Calcutta (see note at print 3).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

63. Photo 1180/2(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(7)
Title:
Importing jute from boats. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing labourers shifting bales of jute from a large barge onto a jetty, presumably at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

64. Photo 1180/2(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/2(14)
Title:
Pressing jute (filling boxes). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Interior view of the press house, showing bales of jute in the pressing machinery. Photograph presumably taken at Narayanganj.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

65. Photo 1180/3(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/3(2)
Title:
General view of jute mill. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
General view looking over the buildings of a jute mill. This is presumably the same mill as the one seen in print 3, in which case this is the Barnagore Jute Mill, in the northern suburbs of Calcutta.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

66. Photo 1180/3(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/3(3)
Title:
General view of jute mill. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
General view across the buildings of the Barnagore Jute Mill, on the northern outskirts of Calcutta. Reproduced facing p. 94 of D. R. Wallace, The Romance of Jute (2nd Edition, London and Calcutta, 1928), where the location is identified.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

67. Photo 1180/3(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/3(4)
Title:
Boiler house [in a jute mill]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
Close view of boilers in the boilerhouse of a jute mill, probably at the Barnagore Jute Mill, north of Calcutta (see note at print 3).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

68. Photo 1180/3(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/3(5)
Title:
Engine house [of a jute mill]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
General view of the engine house of a jute mill, probably at the Barnagore Jute Mill, north of Calcutta (see note at print 3).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

69. Photo 1180/4(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/4(13)
Title:
Pressing jute [probably at Calcutta]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Scope & Content:
A second view of the jute press, also seen in print 12, in operation in a press-house.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

70. Photo 1180/1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1(3)
Title:
Heavy laddering (preparing the earth) [in a jute field]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Scope & Content:
Showing two labourers at work with bullock-drawn laddering equipment, in a jute field.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item