Black-and-white negative

Museum number:
15-30302
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
BI-22 (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
Black and white negative of a man riding a cart full of cotton, drawn by two oxen. Hoefler's original description: "British India. In the cotton growing districts of India. The growing, gathering and processing of cotton in India is conducted along quite different lines than in the Southern States of America. The patches of cotton are small and the quality, inferior. Crude methods are employed all along the line, in cultivating, harvesting and ginning. Photograph shows a regulation cart employed by the cotton farmers to transport their cotton to the gin. These carts are powered by two oxen and drift lazily along the road at about four miles per hour; for in India, no one is in a hurry." Prints Supplied To: General Motors Export Company
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
India
Verbatim coll. place:
British India
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1931-1932
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Place depicted:
Jaipur district, Rajasthan, India
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Function:
7.0 Use not specified (Communication, Records, Currency, and Measures)
Production date:
1931-1932
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Dimensions:
whole— length 5 inches and whole— height 4 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-30302, described as Black and white negative of a man riding a cart full of cotton, drawn by two oxen. Hoefler's original description: "British India. In the cotton growing districts of India. The growing, gathering and processing of cotton in India is conducted along quite different lines than in the Southern States of America. The patches of cotton are small and the quality, inferior. Crude methods are employed all along the line, in cultivating, harvesting and ginning. Photograph shows a regulation cart employed by the cotton farmers to transport their cotton to the gin. These carts are powered by two oxen and drift lazily along the road at about four miles per hour; for in India, no one is in a hurry." Prints Supplied To: General Motors Export CompanyHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-30302, described as Black and white negative of a man riding a cart full of cotton, drawn by two oxen. Hoefler's original description: "British India. In the cotton growing districts of India. The growing, gathering and processing of cotton in India is conducted along quite different lines than in the Southern States of America. The patches of cotton are small and the quality, inferior. Crude methods are employed all along the line, in cultivating, harvesting and ginning. Photograph shows a regulation cart employed by the cotton farmers to transport their cotton to the gin. These carts are powered by two oxen and drift lazily along the road at about four miles per hour; for in India, no one is in a hurry." Prints Supplied To: General Motors Export Company

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