An Indian Well Near Delhi (Water is won from the reluctant soil... The mot of India, like the shadoof and sakkieh of Egypt and the Persian water wheel, is a contrivance born of sun-parched earth and ...)

An Indian Well Near Delhi (Water is won from the reluctant soil... The mot of India, like the shadoof and sakkieh of Egypt and the Persian water wheel, is a contrivance born of sun-parched earth and ...)

Digitized film strip
Transparency

William Wisner Chapin

Maker
American, 1851–1928

An Indian Well Near Delhi (Water is won from the reluctant soil... The mot of India, like the shadoof and sakkieh of Egypt and the Persian water wheel, is a contrivance born of sun-parched earth and ...)

ca. 1909-1913
Gelatin silver transparency with applied color
Overall: 3 1/4 × 4 in. (8.3 × 10.2 cm)
Gift of Barbara Boyce
1986.0602.0057

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