Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Planter's Bungalow
1877
Portfolio, The planting and manufacturing of indigo in India: 20 photographic views / by Oscar Mallitte. - [India]: Allahabad, 5 October 1877. - Printed at the Liverpool Press, Stanley Road, Allahabad. - 20 photographs: albumen, c18x23.5cm each adhered to thin card 44.5x28cm and captioned, within wrapover paper titlepage 44.5x28cm and contents list, enfolded in maroon portfolio clothboard leather spine 46x32x3cm, green ties cut away. Most scenes show native labourers at work. - 1. Planter's Bungalow - 2. Luggie (measuring lands for cultivation) - 3. Tumnie (turning up lands) - 4. Sowing with drills - 5. Cutting Indigo plant in the field and Loading Carts - 6. Indigo factory (beating the Vats) - 7. Loading a vat with plant - 8. Indigo factory (beating the Vats) - 9. Beating a vat by hand - 10. Beating by Machinery - 11. Apparatus for beating by machinery - 12. Indigo boilers and fecula table - 13. Press house - 14. Pumping the fecula into boilers - 15. Pressing the fecula - 16. Drying house (Indigo cakes on Shelves) - 17. Cutting Indigo into Cakes - 18. Bailing water in time of draught - 19. Persian Wheel - 20. group of Indigo beaters
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