£ 350.00
A collection of approximately 130 photographs depicting weaving of carpets in Amritsar, Punjab, c. 1940. Gelatin silver prints showing the making of fine carpets at the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers / East India Carpet Co Ltd. / Stavrides (Gwalior) Ltd (before the Partition in 1947). The rugs shown in the album were made for Fritz and La Rue Company of New York (subsidiary of OCM). Contains 19 photographs 25 x 20cm (all captioned by hand), 16 photographs 12.5 x 12.5cm (all mounted on black paper and bearing typed captions) and 97 photographs measuring 9 x 9cm (sparsely captioned), with a two-page typed description of the process shown in the photographs, presented in sleeves in an old ring binder folder.
Ref. INDIA RESEARCH
