*Cotton boats on the Ganges, c.1788-1800: a watercolor by James Tillyer Blunt* (BL); [*Blunt, c.1788*]


"Methods of Conveying Cotton in India to the Ports of Shipment," from the Illustrated London News, 1861

Source: ebay, Mar. 2010


"Cotton from India: a cotton convoy proceeding from Rewah towards the Ganges--night encampment under a banyan tree," from the Illustrated London News, 1862; *a closer look at the cotton carts*; also: *"A cotton fleet descending the Ganges--casting off from Mirzapore early in the morning"*; also: *"The cotton famine"*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2005


"Weighing cotton at Bombay for the English market," from the Illustrated London News, 1862

Source: ebay, Oct. 2005


*"Cotton bales lying at the Bombay Terminus of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway ready for shipment to England," from the Illustrated London News, 1862*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2005


"Press for packing Indian cotton," from the Illustrated London News, 1864

Source: ebay, Aug. 2015





"The cotton market," a wood engraving by Emile Bayard, from 'Le Tour du Monde', 1869; also *"Workers in the cotton market"*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2008



"Bombay Cotton Green, 1869"

Source: ebay, Mar. 2011


*"Bombay Brokers and traders [in cotton fabrics]," from The Graphic, 1870*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2009


"Khangaon cotton market, West Berar, India," from the Illustrated London News, 1870

Source: ebay, Feb. 2008



*The cotton yards at Bombay (Illustrated London News, 1875)*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2004





"Coolies at the cotton market, Bombay," an engraving from 'India and its Native Princes' by Louis Rousselet, 1878; also *"The Grant-Buildings and Cotton-Green, Bombay"*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2009


"The Cotton Yards, Bombay," a wood engraving from 'The Earth and its Inhabitants' by Elisee Reclus, 1883; *a large scan, with modern hand coloring*

Source: ebay, Apr. 2006


*"Cotton Wharf," Bombay; a photo from the collection of John MacQuarie Antill, late 1800's*

Source: ebay, May 2002


"Coolies carrying baskets of cotton from huge dump to the mills; Indore, the cotton district of India," a stereoscopic view, c.1900; also *"Weighing bales of cotton, Bombay," 1908*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2007


*"A cotton cart," a postcard photo by Thacker & Co., Bombay, c.1910s?*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2007


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