*Woman
bathing. A lady of rank is seated on steps leading to a river; her hair
is being dried by an old lady. A watercolor in the Lucknow style, c.1800*
(BL)
"A Hindu Female," by William Daniell;
Philadelphia, 1836
Source: ebay, Apr. 2009
*"Native woman,
upper India," Illustrated London News, 1858*
Source: ebay, Sept. 2009
*"Female Water Fetcher," an early
postcard photo*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
"The Village Well," from the
Illustrated London News, 1874; *a large scan of
the whole engraving*; and very large scans of *the left half* and *the right half*; this was a
reproduction of a *chromolithograph
by
William
Simpson, 1867* (BL)
Source: ebay, Oct. 2008
"Bathing in the holy river Ganges, Benares," an albumen photo,
c.1870-80
Source: ebay, Oct. 2006
*Two
women carrying water in pots, the Ganges beyond; a watercolor by Bani
Lal,
c.1880* (BL); *Bani Lal 1880*
Women fetching water, a photo, c. late 1800's
Source: ebay, Jan. 2007
*"Bheel women carrying water,
Kathiawar,"
an albumen print, c.1880's*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
*"Along the Ghats," by Edwin Lord
Weeks, from Harper's New Monthly
Magazine, 1890*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2001
*A woman
equipped for drawing water, in an albumen photo, Portuguese India
(Panjim?), c.1895*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2009
*"Village
well" somewhere in northern India; a photo from c.1900*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2010
"Saburmatee River, Ahmedabad"-- women washing clothes, late
1800's
or early 1900's
Source: ebay, Nov. 2006
*"Water carriers, Madurai," a gelatin
photo,
1904*; *a closer view*
Source: ebay, Jan. 2008
"Calcutta, Hindu women bathing," a postcard, early 1900's
Source: ebay, Feb. 2007
"Family work, Jumna River, Agra," a photo c. early 1900's
Source: ebay, Apr. 2007
*"Water carriers, Agra," c.1912*; also
*"Water carriers, Bombay," early 1900's*
Source: ebay, Nov. 2007
In this idealized bazaar art print
(early 1900's) illustrating the Raga Sorath, the idealized male figure
is dressed for westernized office work (with glasses, shoes, cane); the
idealized female figure, dressed entirely traditionally, is drawing
water
Source: ebay, June 2009
"Baby's Bath," a silver print by H.
Ferger, 1929
Source: ebay, Feb. 2009
*"A Rodiya
woman carrying water, Ceylon," a postcard photo from the early 1930's*
Source: ebay, Apr. 2009
"On the way to the well," a photo from
c.1935
Source: ebay, Dec. 2008
*"Village well, India," a photo from c.
1950's*
Source: ebay, June 2007
*Five beaded
pot-supports for the head, collected in Rajasthan in the 1950's*
Source: ebay, Oct. 2009
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