Johnson & Henderson
(active 1850s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Costumes and Characters of Western India: Group of Pinjaras, or Cotton-Carders
ALBUM TITLE: The Indian Amateurs Photographic Album

ca. 1857
albumen print from collodion negative
19.4 x 24.4 cm.
Museum Purchase; ex-collection A.E. Marshall
79:0065:0012

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Worswick, Clark & Embree, Ainslie. --The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc., 1976. p. 86.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 178.//

INSCRIPTION: (printed on opposite page) "Costumes and Characters of Western India. No. 4-Group of Pinjaras, or Cotton-Carders. From a Collodion Negative by Johnson and Henderson" (description of Pinjaras follows)

NOTES: Catalogued 2/91, MMC. For full text on cotton carders, see album.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, males
occupation, cotton carders