Photo 1180/3

Commercially produced photograph album (volume three of four), measuring 208 x 305 mm, half-bound in blue and green cloth, with title as above stamped in gilt on upper board. The volume contains 22 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 third volume consists largely of views of jute processing machinery in a jute mill, together with general views of mill buildings. 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). The illustration facing p. 94 of this work, identifies the buildings seen in print 3 of the album as the Barnagore Jute Mill, situated in the northern outskirts of Calcutta, and it is assumed that the remaining photographs were also taken at this location.