PHOTOGRAPH: WOMEN FILLING CONTAINERS AT TAPS AT JATHERI, INDIA
1954Black and white photograph of three women filling buckets and water jars at a battery of six taps. A tree is visible in the top right corner. The two women closest to the foreground are turned away from the camera. The third woman in the background is smiling and turned in conversation, her face visible to the camera. They are dressed in loose flowing clothes and wear head scarves.
The woman closest to the foreground is wearing a checked pattern upper garment that also covers her head and a floral patterned skirt or lower garment. She has two large bangles visible on each ankle. A bucket is prominent in the middle foreground.
REVERSE: Handwritten in blue ink: 'No: 7'.
Above is a purple ink stamp 'ANAND STUDIO,/ Specialists in/ Portraits & Group Photo's/ Gurdwara Road, Karol Bagh, Delhi.'
These taps were installed by Messrs E M Allcock and Mohatta Ltd at the village of Jatheri, 20 miles from Delhi. A Metters type 'K' windmill and a 4,000 gal water storage tank supplied the taps.
Details
Details
Anand Studio, Gurdwara Road, Karol Bagh, Delhi
Industrial and manufacturing history
More items like this
Other items from Subiaco Museum
- PHOTOGRAPH: DEMOLITION OF METTERS FACTORY, 1986
- PHOTOGRAPH: INTERIOR OF METTERS FACTORY
- PHOTOGRAPH: BUILDING IN PROGRESS, METTERS FACTORY, FEBRUARY 1937
- PHOTOGRAPH: BUILDING IN PROGRESS, METTERS FACTORY, MARCH 1937
- PHOTOGRAPH: BUILDING IN PROGRESS, METTERS FACTORY, MARCH 1937
- PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS CLOTHES DRIER, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, SUBIACO
- PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS RANGE, HOME OF PEACE, SUBIACO
- PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS RANGE, LONDON HOTEL, ALBANY, 1955
- PHOTOGRAPH: (Copy) METTERS RANGE, LONDON HOTEL, ALBANY, 1955
- PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS' RANGES, EDWARD MILLER HOME, VICTORIA PARK
- PHOTOGRAPH: METTERS' STAIR RAILING, ATLAS CO. BUILDING, ESPLANADE, PERTH, 1931
- PHOTOGRAPH: POSTER - 'THE GUERRE IS OVER'