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NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1934 English

A farmhouse in Bombay Presidency (modern Gujarat Province) where two women are churning butter. Two women dressed in saris use rope pulleys to turn a large pole in the center …


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1933 English

Mohammedans (an archaic term for Muslims) offering prayer at Festival of Idu-'l-Fitar in Sukkur, Sind (Sindh) Province, India. Hundreds of worshippers are praying in an open courtyard. All are bowing …


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1933 English

Khyber Pass, View East toward Jamrud and the Plains; Winding Road - about 22 miles from Peshawar, North–West Frontier. India.


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1933 English

Two men, both wearing turbans, gather up bundles of grain and load them on top of a cart pulled by two oxen in a field near Taxila, Punjab Province, India. …


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1933 English

A group of eight Indian men sit and harvest sugar cane in the middle of a plantation south of Agra in the United Provinces (modern Uttar Pradesh), India. A large …


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1924 English

A man weaving a Cashmere shawl in Srinagar, Kashmir, India. The shawl is being weaved on a loom, with strands attached to individual needles. The man has a bushy beard …


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1918 English

A posed photograph of a Brahman (Brahmin) bridal party in South India, where the bride is 12 years of age, and the groom is 40 years old. The bride is …


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1915 English

Map of “British India and Adjacent Countries,” from L.R. Blaich's Three Industrial Nations. The map depicts the outline of British controlled India and its neighbors in the region. It shows …


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1912 English

State elephants with rich trappings in a pageant in honor of the visit of King George V of England and Queen Mary to Calcutta (Kolkata), Bengal, India. Several Indian elephants, …


NYSED: New York State Education Department · 1912 English

The Street of the Pearl Dealers in Bombay (Mumbai), India, filled with people mostly wearing white clothes and turbans. Two men are pushing a handcart, and a horse-drawn carriage is …