Wheat for India's Millions: Indian longshoremen labor long hours with tin scoops to fill burlap bags with wheat on the docks of Bombay. Modern vessels have sped the grain halfway around the world, but at the docks the 20th century slips back to the 18th as dockworkers load wheat bags on turbaned heads and cattle drawn lorries for the trip inland, India

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Wheat for India's Millions: Indian longshoremen labor long hours with tin scoops to fill burlap bags with wheat on the docks of Bombay. Modern vessels have sped the grain halfway around the world, but at the docks the 20th century slips back to the 18th as dockworkers load wheat bags on turbaned heads and cattle drawn lorries for the trip inland, India
Wheat for India's Millions: Indian longshoremen labor long hours with tin scoops to fill burlap bags with wheat on the docks of Bombay. Modern vessels have sped the grain halfway around the world, but at the docks the 20th century slips back to the 18th as dockworkers load wheat bags on turbaned heads and cattle drawn lorries for the trip inland, India
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
Date1966
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 9 7/16 × 6 in. (24 × 15.3 cm) Sheet: 9 7/16 × 6 in. (24 × 15.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.196
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Markings Verso, upper left (stamp, blue ink with pencil): "TRIBUNE CUT ORDER / Subject_["Longshoremen" written in pencil]__ / Size_["5 1/4 x 8 1/4" written in pencil]_ / For_["Mail" written in pencil]_ edition on_["Sunday" writted in pencil] / Ordered by_["SAT. AM MKP" written in pencil]_ / Time_____ / Date _____"

Verso, lower right (stamp, black ink): [at an angle] “NOTICE / This picture is the property of The Associated / Press and may be used only for the purposes of / reproduction when authorized by the owner. It may / not be syndicated, rented or loaned, or used for / advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade. / The following credit must be printed under / such reproduction of this picture: / ASSOCIATED PRESS / WIREPHOTO / and U. S. PATENT OFFICE”

Verso, lower left (newspaper clipping): "INDIAN longshoremen / labor long hours with / tin scoops to fill burlap / bags with wheat on the / docks of Bombay, above / vessels have / sped the grain half-way / around the world, but at / the docks the 20th cen- / tury slips back to the / 18th as dockworkers load / the wheat bags onto tur- / baned heads and into / cattle-drawn wagons for / the trip inland."

Verso, lower center (stamp, purple ink): [on top of newspaper clipping] "4 MAR 13 1966 T"

Verso, upper right (stamp, blue ink): [very faded and sideways] "ENGRAVING OFFICE / [year is illegible] JAN 11 PM 10:10"

Verso, lower left (stamp, blue ink): [faded and sideways] "ARTISTS / 1966 MAR 11 PM 10:09"
Inscribed Verso, upper left corner (pencil): "HF-IND-03.3"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "2500"
Verso, upper right edge (red ink): [bottom portion of circled text, cut-off and illegible]
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