The common cotton gin or 'churka', from Berar. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Industrial Photography General view of wooden cotton gin. Photograph 'Enclosed in India Foreign Revenue Letter no. 23 Dec 22/66. Recd. Feb. 1867.'
Maty boys (under-servants) at work. Photographer: Hooper and Western
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing two servants at work, one washing crockery, the other pouring water into a teapot. This is presumably one of the series of views by Hooper & Western which was shown first at the London Exhibition of 1871 and later at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 (J...
Women preparing cowdung cakes for fuel, Ahmadabad. Photographer: Narayen, Shivashanker
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two women fashioning cow dung into flat cakes. The print is signed on the mount Shivashanker Narayen, Photographer. G.W. Terry dirext. Terry was head of the School of Art in Bombay.