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Title: Measuring the Salt, 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 British took over this Lake in 1871. Since then they have taken out of the Lake 1050,000,000 mans. 1 man = 82 lbs. or 8610,000,000 lbs.” View of man measuring mound of salt with a stick while group of people look on. Sambhar Lake is India’s largest inland salt lake. ❧ United Free Church of Scotland photographs from the Rajputana mission.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 20 x 14.8 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75648590-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79170
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75648590-1.jpg
Subject: Salt industry
Laborers
Salt
Time Period: circa 1900
Place: Asia
India
Rājasthān
Sambhar
Source: Acc.7548/F/11 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75648588 [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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