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Photo 451/1

Record Id:: 040-003090033
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:: 032-003090032
MDARK:: ark:/81055/vdc_100025866177.0x000a31
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Format:: ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 451/1
Title:: Indian Tea Association Collection: Assam Tea. A pictorial record by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. Photographer(s): Bose, P.
Scope & Content:: Black cloth-covered post-bound album stamped 'Tea. Balmer Lawrie & Co., Ltd. Calcutta' in gold on front cover. Photographer's label laid down onto rear fixed endpaper. Album measures 292x385mm and contains prints mounted one to a page with tissue interleaving on which the captions are printed. A 3pp. letterpress introduction describes the Assam tea industry, its historical background, the labour force, and the growing, processing, transportation and auctioning of the crop. The photographs show all stages of the cultivation of tea from planting to shipping, together with a number of views of estate labour, company medical facilities, accommodation, etc. All the tea garden photographs were taken on various estates of the Jokai (Assam) Tea Company.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Hierarchy Record Ids:: 032-003090032
040-003090033
Is part of:: Photo 451 : Indian Tea Association Photographs

Photo 451/1 : Indian Tea Association Collection: Assam Tea. A pictorial record by Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. Photographer(s): Bose, P.
Contains:: Photo 451/1(1) : What a modern tea garden in the plains of northern India looks like. An aerial view of Nalani Tea Estate, Upper Assam, showing…
Photo 451/1(2) : Leguminous trees interplanted in the tea provide both shade and nitrogenous manure. A section of Panitola Tea Estate, Upper…
Photo 451/1(3) : Jamirah Tea Factory, Upper Assam, showing the factory building and the barn-like corrugated iron sheds in which the leaf is…
Photo 451/1(4) : The Manager's bungalow, Panitola Tea Estate [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(5) : A typical contract labourer from the Munda tribe of Chota Nagpur. These men serve a term of three years in Assam with the right…
Photo 451/1(6) : A contract labourer of the Koya Tribe of Central India carrying a basket of green tea leaf [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(7) : A woman contract labourer of the Koya Tribe with a basket of green leaf. These primitive forest people turn enthusiastically…
Photo 451/1(8) : Two contract labourers form the Sonthal Tribe, showing two different types of hoe used for weeding and cultivating. The Sonthals are…
Photo 451/1(9) : Contract labourers frequently settle in Assam. These two young ladies are permanently resident labourers at Jamirah Tea…
Photo 451/1(10) : The health and welfare of the labour force are an important part of the tea planter's duties. Nurses' Quarters at the…
Photo 451/1(11) : Surgical treatment is given. An operation in progress at Panitola Central Hospital [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(12) : Tea garden children are educated. The Primary School, Muttuck Tea Estate, Upper Assam. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(13) : Tea gardens procure and distribute food supplies to their labour forces. Distribution of subsidised rations - Jamirah Tea…
Photo 451/1(14) : Tea garden labourers work on a family basis. 'Pay Day' for women and children at Jamirah Tea Estate. All pay is distributed…
Photo 451/1(15) : The bush which provides the tea leaf: Thea Camillia in flower and seed [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(16) : Preparing the seed. The mass of vegetation in the background gives an idea of the density of the virgin jungles of Assam before…
Photo 451/1(17) : Tea nursery. Lifting two-year old plants for infilling vacancies in the plucking area [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(18) : Four-year old plants in the plucking area. These bushes will soon be producing tea [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(19) : Tea under cultivation. Pruning bushes to secure a close and level sheet of tea [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(20) : Chest-high among the closely growing tea bushes. A gang of women plucking leaf from a mature area. Tea like this gives as much…
Photo 451/1(21) : Two leaves and a bud only are plucked. (These samples have far too much stalk) [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(22) : The green [tea] leaf in baskets is carried to the factory for weighing in - Jamirah Tea Estate [Upper Assam]. Photographer: Bose, P.
Photo 451/1(23) : Small boys spread the leaf on the shelves or 'chungs' of the withering house. it will remain there until soft and flaccid…
Photo 451/1(24) : The second process of tea manufacture - rolling by machine. In this process the leaf is bruised and twisted. Juice expressed in…
Photo 451/1(25) : In the cool half darkness of the fermenting room the rolled leaf lies on beds of polished and sterilised glass or concrete.…
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Record Type (Level):: File
Extent:: 36 items
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Techniques:: Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Start Date:: 1950
End Date:: 1959
Date Range:: 1950s
Era:: CE
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Physical Characteristics:: Dimensions: 233 mm x 286 mm to 244 mm x 292 mm
Source of Acquisition:: Presented by the Indian Tea Association, 1977.
Material Type:: Photographs
Legal Status:: Not Known
Names:: Bose, P.
Places:: Assam, India, Asia