"Einwohner in Ceylon (People of Ceylon)" by Philip Baldaeus, from 'Nauwkeurige beschrijving Malabar en Choromandel, derz. aangrenzend rijken, en het machtige eiland Ceylon', Amsterdam, 1672

Source: ebay, Aug. 2014

"Lady with Ayah," 1860's; *a closer view*

Source: ebay, May 2008

*"Sellers of fish, Mussulmans, Sind," a photo, c.1870's*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2006

"Costumes of Western India: a Mahratta woman [carrying water]; another Mahratta woman; a woman of the Carnatic [carrying a bowl]; a Moslem woman; a Fishwoman [with her wares]; a Soortan [with an implement (?)]," from the Illustrated London News, 1876 (with later hand coloring)

Source: ebay, Sept. 2006

*An ayah; a photo from 1880*

Source: ebay, Sept. 2007

*An albumen photo, posed in a studio, of a woman carrying wheat, by Sache, 1880's*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2005

Sweepers clearing away refuse; an albumen photo, 1880's

Source: ebay, July 2007

*"The Manager & group of coolies, Manabarrie Tea Estate, Dooars, Terai," an albumen photo, 1880's*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2007

*Tea-pickers, Columbo, Ceylon; an albumen photo, late 1800's*

Source: ebay, Jan. 2008

Woman at a spinning wheel, a silver gelatin photograph, c.1890's

Source: ebay, Oct. 2005

*Women thinning grass and clearing weeds [in Kashmir]; a photo from the 1890's* (BL) ; [*women thining grass, 1890's*]

"Tapiwalis, Bombay," photographed by Cambridge and Company (1890s)

Source: ebay, Dec. 2002

"20-woman team on Darjeeling highway-- who would not be a man in India?" (stereo view, c.1900)

Source: ebay, Dec. 2007

*Women participating in road maintenance work, a photo by R. Howard from 1918 (place unknown)*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2007

"Milk-woman," a studio photograph, late 1800's or early 1900's

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006

"Saburmatee River, Ahmedabad"-- women washing clothes, late 1800's or early 1900's

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006

*"Ayahs," an albumen photo, c.1880's*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2007

*"Primitive industry in old India--Hindu women spinning beside a Jain temple at Amber," 1903* (Ames);
also: *"Spinning in the streets of Jeypore," 1908*

"Ayah, Punjab, 1916"

Source: ebay, Apr. 2007

"Women porters, Madras," a photo from c. the 1920's

Source: ebay, June 2007

*Rice-cleaning being done by girls at a mission school, c.1920's*

Source: ebay, May 2007

*Tea-pickers, a photo from the 1930's*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2007