Packetting Tea, Colombo
A nice representation of a small portion of the human labor – a dozen people here – that went into the preparation and production of a commodity like tea.
Collotype
Murree View From Above Hotel
One of the popular postcard views of this hillstation now in Pakistan and once on the major route to Kashmir from Punjab. Murree adheres tightly to a steep hillside. Note how the Protestant Church is on top, and the "native bazaar" descends below.
Fruit Sellers
A delicately hand-tinted postcard, with the green stalks breathing life into the frozen men.
Kandyan lady
Compare to the halftone color version of the same photograph.
Bombay - Great Western Hotel
A storied building, still standing, which was everything from a Governor's residence to Admiralty House and the first High Court of Bombay.
Soldiers' Married Quarters, Peshawar
Note how this advertisement for family life in the cantonment shows a woman and pram on the verandah.
Kasauli Hill
A very nicely composed collotype, with the road leading the eye into the dense scene from the foreground.
Group of Indian Fakirs
A very early postcard of fakirs or sadhus, usually shown individually in close-up. Combridge & Co.
The Bhils
A variety of Adivasi people (as well as officials and a soldier in the center) as part of a rich forest surrounding. Hobson-Jobson (1906) gave this definition
"BHEEL, (p. 91) BHEEL, n.p. Skt. Bhilla; H. Bhīl. The name of a race inhabiting the hills
A Potter
One of the most ancient of occupations, showing in the background what must be the larger human ecosystem that depends on the potter's labor.
