Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Machine room No. 2 ['Times of India'], - November 1898.--Photographer: E.O.S. and Company Medium: Photographic print Date: 1898

Machine room No. 2 ['Times of India'], - November 1898.

Machine room No. 2 ['Times of India'], - November 1898.
Machine room No. 2 ['Times of India'], - November 1898.
Print by E.O.S. and Company printing presses at the Times of India, Mumbai, taken on the occasion of the newspaper's Diamond Jubilee (60 years), November 1898. The album contains the text of an address read at the Jubilee celebrations by F.A. Periera, Chief Clerk of the Job Department dedicated to the editor T.J. Bennett and the managing proprietor F.M. Coleman. It includes the following extract, "There has been a steady increase in the number of workmen from 200 to about 800. In type, presses, machines, binery and casting materials the establishment has so much increased that it is second to none in India."

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