Sakieh (Water Wheel) Mt. Abu – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Sakieh (Water Wheel) Mt. Abu comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sakieh (Water Wheel) Mt. Abu
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Mount Abu, a hill station in the Aravalli range of Rajasthan in western India, is the setting for this view of a sakieh, the animal-driven water wheel used to lift water from wells for irrigation. Oxen typically walked a circular path to turn the gearing, which brought up a chain of pots, a method common across India and the wider Middle East for centuries. The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a New York picture agency whose glass negatives cover a wide range of world scenes. The title on the record is unverified, and the date and exact circumstances of the photograph are not known.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,147 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29804 |
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