File:Dhobi wallah (KEAGLE 0070).jpg

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English: Dhobi wallah   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Robert Keagle
Title
English: Dhobi wallah
Description
English:

Dhobi wallah"" in action. Here is a Calcutta shirt and clothes laundry in operation. The operator gathers the garment in his hands, dips it into the muddy ""tank"" water by his legs, then slams it repeatedly again the groove plank at his knees. Already ""washed"" clothes hang on lines up on the bank to dry in the sun. Surface of the wash water is covered with a green scum which must constantly be shoved aside by the washerman. Spring, 1945.

  • Subject: occupation
Depicted place Kolkata
Date 1945
date QS:P571,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q5275997
Accession number
0070
Source
English: Keagle Photograph Library
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