Spinning-- a photograph from the 1890's

Source: ebay, June 2005


*"Spinning in the streets of Jeypore," 1908* (Ames);
also: *"Primitive industry in old India--Hindu women spinning beside a Jain temple at Amber," 1903*





A photo from the Simla area, c.1915

Source: ebay, Mar. 2009



"Bengalese Woman at the Spinning Wheel," a photogravure by Martin Hurlimann, 1928

Source: ebay, Aug. 2009




While addressing his followers, Gandhi spins by hand; a news bureau photo, 1930

Source: ebay, Oct. 2008




"Concentrate on Charkha and Swadeshi," bazaar art, 1930's

Source: ebay, July 2009


Eleanor Roosevelt tries spinning, during a visit to India in 1952

Source: ebay, June 2008


The famous late photograph by Margaret Bourke-White; *a very large scan of this photo*

Source: http://cafdes2004.free.fr/photos.htm
(downloaded Nov. 2004)

Source of very large version: http://www.ecn.org/molino/giornale/numero6/swadeshi.htm
(downloaded May 2007)


Spinning as part of Gandhi's path to Swaraj, or self-rule-- an Independence-movement print

Source: ebay, Feb. 2002


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