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Description: | Photograph by an unknown photographer taken in the 1870s, part of the Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma. It shows Indian labourers carrying bales of jute into the pressing works of the Camperdown Pressing Company. The company acted as managing agents, in Calcutta, for Cox Brothers, jute and hemp spinners and manufacturers of Dundee, who produced yarn, ropes, twine, bags, sacks, hessian and tarpaulin. The business was active as a jute-pressing concern in Cossipore from the early 1870s. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Workwear Clothing And Dress Textile Industry Daywear People And Society Trade And Economics Industry Menswear | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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