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Photo 440/1

Record Id:
040-003087823
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003087822
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100025866177.0x000190
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 440/1
Title:

Album of miscellaneous views including tea industry and sports. Photographer(s): J. A. Vellancey, H. A. Mirza and Sons and others

Scope & Content:

Black full-leather album, 190x255mm, containing mostly uncaptioned mounted prints. Nothing is known about the origins of this collection, which contains photographs covering a range of subjects and locations including: tea picking and processing in West Bengal, the Andaman Islanders, tennis, horse racing, polo, golf, a photographer's studio in Indonesia and the Coronation Durbar, 1911.

Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003087822
040-003087823
Is part of:
Photo 440 : Two photograph albums of views of India, Burma and Singapore.

 

Photo 440/1 : Album of miscellaneous views including tea industry and sports. Photographer(s): J. A. Vellancey, H. A. Mirza and Sons and others
Contains:
Photo 440/1(1) : [View of women and children picking tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(2) : [Group of Andaman Islanders performing a dance.] Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd (attrib.)
Photo 440/1(3) : [Group of Andaman Islanders displaying body paint.] Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd (attrib)
Photo 440/1(4) : [View of plantation workers hoeing tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(5) : [View of plantation workers picking tea.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(6) : [Baskets of tea being weighed.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(7) : [View of tea leaves spread out on trays in a withering house.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(8) : [View of machine room where tea is rolled?] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(9) : [Tea leaves spread out on the floor of a shed for the process of oxidation.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(10) : [After oxidation the tea is rolled again and dried.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(11) : [Tea being mechanically sifted ready for packing.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(12) : [Tea being packed in tea chests.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(13) : [Tea chests being loaded on to bullock carts.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(14) : [View of tea pickers working in a garden. The processing factory is in the background.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(15) : [Detail of a heap of tea after processing.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(16) : [View of the tea estate manager's bungalow.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(17) : [Group portrait of the tea estate manager, his wife and four European assistants.] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(18) : [Group portrait of the tea estate's Indian assistants?] Photographer: Vellancey, J.A.
Photo 440/1(19) : [View of a tennis match being played before a large crowd in front of a pavilion.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 440/1(20) : [Another view of a tennis match being played before a large crowd in front of a pavilion.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 440/1(21) : [Horses about to cross the finishing line at a racecourse.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 440/1(22) : [Horses jumping a fence during a race.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 440/1(23) : [View of a polo match in progress.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 440/1(24) : [Crowds at a sporting event, probably the races.] Photographer: Unknown
Photo 440/1(25) : [Polo match in progress, in the centre of a racecourse (Bombay?).] Photographer: Unknown
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Hierarchy:
032-003087822[0001]/040-003087823
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 440
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
64 items
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Not applicable
Scripts:
Not applicable
Start Date:
1900
End Date:
1911
Date Range:
1900s-1911
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 49 mm x 70 mm to 160 mm x 207 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Mrs Myra Kellaway.

Material Type:
Photographs
Legal Status:
Not Known
Names:
Mirza and Sons