"Einwohner in Ceylon (People of Ceylon)" by Philip
Baldaeus, from 'Nauwkeurige beschrijving Malabar en
Choromandel, derz. aangrenzend rijken, en het machtige eiland
Ceylon', Amsterdam, 1672
Source: ebay, Aug. 2014
"Lady with Ayah," 1860's; *a closer view*
Source: ebay, May 2008
*"Sellers of fish, Mussulmans, Sind," a photo, c.1870's*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2006
"Costumes of Western India: a Mahratta woman [carrying water]; another Mahratta woman; a woman of the Carnatic [carrying a bowl]; a Moslem woman; a Fishwoman [with her wares]; a Soortan [with an implement (?)]," from the Illustrated London News, 1876 (with later hand coloring)
Source: ebay, Sept. 2006
Source: ebay, Sept. 2007
*An albumen photo, posed in a studio, of a woman carrying wheat, by Sache, 1880's*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2005
Sweepers clearing away refuse; an albumen photo, 1880's
Source: ebay, July 2007
*"The Manager & group of coolies, Manabarrie Tea Estate, Dooars, Terai," an albumen photo, 1880's*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
*Tea-pickers, Columbo, Ceylon; an albumen photo, late 1800's*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2008
Woman at a spinning wheel, a silver gelatin photograph, c.1890's
Source: ebay, Oct. 2005
*Women thinning grass and clearing weeds [in Kashmir]; a photo from the 1890's* (BL) ; [*women thining grass, 1890's*]
"Tapiwalis, Bombay," photographed by Cambridge and Company (1890s)
Source: ebay, Dec. 2002
"20-woman team on Darjeeling highway-- who would not be a man in India?" (stereo view, c.1900)
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
*Women participating in road maintenance work, a photo by R. Howard from 1918 (place unknown)*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
"Milk-woman," a studio photograph, late 1800's or early 1900's
Source: ebay, Nov. 2006
"Saburmatee River, Ahmedabad"-- women washing clothes, late 1800's or early 1900's
Source: ebay, Nov. 2006
*"Ayahs," an albumen photo, c.1880's*
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
*"Primitive industry in old India--Hindu women
spinning beside a Jain temple at Amber," 1903* (Ames);
also: *"Spinning in the streets of Jeypore," 1908*
"Ayah, Punjab, 1916"
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
"Women porters, Madras," a photo from c. the 1920's
Source: ebay, June 2007
*Rice-cleaning being done by girls at a mission school, c.1920's*
Source: ebay, May 2007
*Tea-pickers, a photo from the 1930's*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2007
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