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Title: Railway and Salt Heaps, Sambhar, India, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1900
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
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Description: “The Railway and Salt Heaps, Sambhar.” View of railway tracks running alongside large salt heaps. Several people are also seated next to railway tracks. The salt was extracted from the nearby Sambhar Salt Lake. The railway was constructed to facilitate the transport of salt from the Salt Lake. ❧ United Free Church of Scotland photographs from the Rajputana mission.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 20.3 x 14.5 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75648602-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79174
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75648602-1.jpg
Subject: Railroad tracks
Salt industry
Laborers
Salt
Time Period: circa 1900
Place: Asia
India
Rājasthān
Sambhar
Source: Acc.7548/F/11 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75648600 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs from the Rajputana mission, 1901
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