A wood-sawyer and a wood-worker, from 'Voyage aux Index orientales' by Pierre Sonnerat, Paris, 1782; also *an ironworker*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2009



Glassmakers, Patna, 1819, 1824; from a series of Company School watercolors of various trades: also *Hookah Maker*; *Ox Handler*; *Baggage Carrier*; *Grain Seller*; *Treader-out of Grain*; *Basket and Punka Maker*; *Bruiser of grain (making rice)*; *Brick delivery man*; *Metal workers*; *Hot water seller*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2013




"Ivory-cutters at Berhampoor (Bengal), for the Great Exhibition," from the Illustrated London News, 1851; also *"Modeling ivory figures from the living elephant, at Berhampoor"*; also *"Transparencies for the Prince of Wales' visit: Bombay School of Art," 1875*

Source: ebay, June 2009

Jewelers, Lucknow, c.1865

Source: ebay, Nov. 2007


An albumen print from 'The People of India', published from 1868 to the early 1870's by W.H. Allen, for the India Office

Source: ebay, Apr. 2008


Metal-workers hammering out pots, an albumen photo by Shivshanker Narayen, c.1870

Source: ebay, Aug. 2007





"Indian Bird-catcher," from The Graphic, 1875

Source: ebay, Oct. 2009


*"Bruising rice for sweetmeats," from The Graphic, 1876*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2009


*"Ambir and Sambher: Hindoo Jeweller," from 'India and its Native Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2009




"Bombay embroiderers at work," a Griggs lithograph, 1888

Source: ebay, Apr. 2014




A wood-turner, a photo from the 1880's

Source: ebay, Sept. 2010




Tinning brass pots, Lucknow; a photo by the 'Schulze' studio, from c. the 1880's

Source: ebay, Nov. 2010


*A big log being split, c.1900, before onlookers*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2010




"Marble workers, Agra," c.1890's

Source: ebay, Sept. 2008



*"Metal working in India" in traditional style, as depicted in 'The King's Empire', by Fitchett and Bacon, London, c.1910*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2006


Wood turner with his apprentice, Balasore, Orissa, c.1920's

Source: ebay, June 2007


Stonemason, Assam; a photo from the 1920's

Source: ebay, Oct. 2007



*"Portrait of a Jeweler in his Shop in Hyderabad, Sindh," a photogravure by Martin Hurlimann, 1928*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2009




"The Silversmith," probably Delhi, c.1930; also *"The Potter"*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2009


"Men working on ladies' hand purses in the establishment of Ganeshi Lall and Sons, in Agra," a photo from the 1930's

Source: ebay, Apr. 2007





Traditional "zardozi" work

Source: ebay, Oct. 2010

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