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Photo 1180/1

Record Id:
040-003184144
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003184143
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100026599955.0x0001bb
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1180/1
Title:

Jute (cultivation and preparation). Vol. I. Johnston and Hoffmann, Calcutta. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann

Scope & Content:

Commercially produced photograph album (volume one of four), measuring 210 x 310 mm, half-bound in blue and green cloth, with title as above stamped in gilt on upper board. The volume contains 25 gelatin silver prints, mounted one to a page on card (recto only), with letterpress captions printed beneath each image. The four volumes in the set, totalling 89 prints, document each stage in the process of jute manufacture, from growing the crop to export of finished bales. The first volume records the stages involved in preparing ground, planting, harvesting, washing, drying and the coiling of crop into drums.

Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003184143
040-003184144
Is part of:
Photo 1180 : The Cultivation of Jute in Bengal. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann

 

Photo 1180/1 : Jute (cultivation and preparation). Vol. I. Johnston and Hoffmann, Calcutta. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Contains:
Photo 1180/1(1) : Ploughing the jute field. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(2) : Beating clods of earth in jute field. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(3) : Heavy laddering (preparing the earth) [in a jute field]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(4) : Sowing jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(5) : Light laddering previous to sowing [jute]. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(6) : Harrowing after the jute seeds are sown. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(7) : Jute (the first weeding). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(8) : Jute (the second weeding). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(9) : Field of high land jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(10) : Full grown jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(11) : Cutting jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(12) : Cutting jute under water. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(13) : Pulling jute up by the roots. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(14) : Binding jute previous to retting. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(15) : Retting jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(16) : Beating jute with mallets (thapans) and extracting fibre. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(17) : Washing jute. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(18) : Peeling off the jute fibre. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(19) : Drying jute on bamboos. Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(20) : Carting jute to Hat (market). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
Photo 1180/1(21) : Drumming jute (laying the drum). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(22) : Drumming jute (filling the drum). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(23) : Drumming jute (the first roll). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(24) : Drumming jute (the last roll). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann.
Photo 1180/1(25) : Drumming jute (the complete drum). Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann..

 

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Hierarchy:
032-003184143[0001]/040-003184144
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1180
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
25 items
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Not applicable
Scripts:
Not applicable
Techniques:
Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Start Date:
1899
End Date:
1901
Date Range:
c 1900
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased from Pablo Butcher, 7 Feb 2008.

Publications:
Many of the views in the collection are reproduced as plates in D. R. Wallace, The Romance of Jute (2nd edition, London and Calcutta, 1928).
Material Type:
Photographs
Legal Status:
Not Known
Names:
Johnston and Hoffmann
Subjects:
Jute Industry