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India. Calcutta. Harrison Road I with Group of Jogees, after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890-1910)c. 1890-1910
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The light poles in the image suggest the photo was taken after that event. The Jogees or Jogis are a rapidly shrinking caste that began as a community of people who practiced yoga and worshipped the Hindu god Shiva. Many earn their living as religious beggars. They traditionally wear saffron-colored clothing, but the printers in Switzerland who added the color to this image did not know that.
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- Title: India. Calcutta. Harrison Road I with Group of Jogees, after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
- Creator: Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890-1910)
- Date Created: c. 1890-1910
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 20.6 x 26.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.); Paper: 20.6 x 26.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Collection of Gunter Heil, Germany, Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.186
- Medium: Photochrom
- Inscriptions: Imprinted in gold type on recto: “2003.P.Z-CALCUTTA. HARRISON ROAD.I”
- Fun Fact: In 1899, Harrison Road (now Mahatma Gandhi Road) became the first road to be lit by electricity in Kolkatta (formerly Calcutta).
- Department: Photography
- Culture: India, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Collection: PH - Misc. 19th Century
- Accession Number: 2019.186
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