Fraternity workshop meeting
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Yakim and three others around table with glowbal and bedspread samples
Keywords: products, Fraternity, business
Crochet department 6
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Woman assembling patchwork bedspread
Keywords: workers, Fraternity, business, handicrafts
Fraternity exhibition room 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Woman and man hanging bedspreads on line in workshop
Keywords: workers, products, Fraternity, business
Tea time at glowbal department
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Woman workers and baby sitting at edge of workshop with open louvers
Keywords: tea time
Fraternity exhibition room 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Woman checking bedspread hung on line
Keywords: products, Fraternity, business
Tailoring department
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Two men watching tailor assist woman in wide-brim hat
Keywords: tailoring, Fraternity, business, handicrafts
Handloom department 5
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Front portrait of Iyyappan J. working on the loom
Keywords: weaving, business, handicrafts
Saraswati design unit, Fraternity
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Man and woman in foreground working on drafting table with portrait of The Mother
Keywords: office, pioneers
Fraternity workshop workers group photo
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Group photo of Bryan's team including men, boys, women and children outside in front of trees
Keywords: workers, Group picture
Fraternity workshop workers group photo
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Group photo of Fanou's team including women, men and children with backdrop of workshop wall
Keywords: workers, women, Group picture
Group portrait Mahalingam, Sanmugam, Periyasamy, Bryan
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Cooling off on bridge over water pond, Fraternity
Keywords: portrait, pioneers
Fraternity workshop inside scene
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: View of Fraternity workshop with small group discussing around table, two women embroidering with sleeping child, handlooms in background
Keywords: workers, people, people\pionniers\scenes, business, handicrafts, handicrafts\handloom
Fraternity products stock
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Folded piles of woven bedspreads, loom in foreground
Keywords: business, handicrafts, handicrafts\handloom
Fraternity exhibition room 3
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Keywords: workers, handicrafts
Cane department 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Iyyappan J and another man sitting on the floor making cane stools
Keywords: workers, products, business, handicrafts
Fraternity workshop asbestos by Poppo 4
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity workshop asbestos by Poppo
Keywords: early days, new asbestos workshops
Fraternity workshop asbestos by Poppo 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity workshop asbestos by Poppo
Keywords: early days, new asbestos workshops
Fraternity workshop asbestos by Poppo 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity workshop asbestos by Poppo
Keywords: early days, new asbestos workshops
Fraternity workshop asbestos by Poppo 3
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity workshop asbestos by Poppo
Keywords: early days
Medhananda in hammock chair
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity community, February 1978
Keywords: portraits, people\pioneers
Cane department
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Cane department, in the early keeth building - a cane master and teacher Loganathan was hired to train young boys; here making stools, 1974
Keywords: keet building
Hammock department
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Two young workers making hammock chair
Road from Greenbelt to Utility, 1978
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Greenbelt bunding, 1978
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Cashew field in foreground, palmyras in background
Keywords: bunding, avoiding water run off
Greenbelt road with bullock cart, March 1978
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Greenbelt planting
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Two Aurovilians working in field of vegetables, Endurance flowers in foreground
Children packing Auroville bus for a trip
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Auroville's bus to Pondy and back
Keywords: early transportation
Two bicyclists on dirt road
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Road from Aspiration to the beach, ocean in background
Auroville boundry stone marker at open field
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Auroville boundary stone markers close-up
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Fraternity culture center
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Bridge and grassy seating area for the audience which was designed by Palit in Jan. 1972.
Keywords: play, theatre
Fraternity community kitchen with Ranganathan
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Entrance with flowers
Keywords: community kitchen
Joss TV Studio framing 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: January 1972
Keywords: TVstudio
Joss TV Studio framing 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: January 1972
Keywords: TVstudio
Joss TV Studio framing 3
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: View from further away, January 1972
Keywords: construction, Fraternity, TV studio
Joss TV Studio framing 4
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: View with bird, January 1972
Keywords: TVstudio
Joss' young workers with geometric frame
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: (workers of Joss - a slide given to Bryan for safe-keeping), 1972
Keywords: workers
Joss TV Studio ceiling finished
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: 6-pointed bamboo star covered with keet
Keywords: TVstudio
Fraternity community kitchen built by Joss
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: View inside kitchen, decorated for festivities, 1972-74
Keywords: community kitchen
Yoga in TV Studio
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: 1972-74
Keywords: yoga practice
Fraternity products going out
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Bryan and Yakim carrying in bundles of handloom thread through Fraternity gate; photo by Dominique Darr, 1972
Workers tying keet on Fraternity's first workshop
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: February 1972
Crochet department 5
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Bhanumathi crocheting jute carpet, 1972
Chinnaponnu with handful of kambu millet
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Kambu field in Fraternity, 1972
Narayanan, master weaver
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity weaving department, 1972-73
Janaki cleaning kambu millet
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity kambu harvest, 1972
Group photo of Kuilapalayam villagers
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: 1972-73
Crochet department 3
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: 1972-73
Sisal mats department 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Krishnaveni painting sisal mats, 1972-73
Embroidery department 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Helma embroidering, 1972-73
Poppo discussing with Yakim
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Early 1973
Fraternity scene 1973 (before)
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: With new workshop and overhead water tank under construction, July-December 1973
Fraternity scene 1973 (after)
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: With new asbestos roof workshop, July-December 1973
Keywords: New construction
Fraternity kindergarten 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Maya (of Mahalingam), first teacher of Fraternity worker's kids, with group of children including Pippi and Poppo's daughter Nevi, 1973-74
Fraternity kindergarten 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Two rows of children being taught the Tamil alphabet, 1973-74
Keywords: Kindergarten
Korai grass mat department 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Trainee Ramalingam at mat loom
Korai grass mat department 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Chellathai demonstrating grass mat work, 1973-74
Cane department 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Arumugam, trainee at cane basket work, 1974
Woodcraft department 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Walter (Belgium) head of the unit, moved his workshop from Aspiration into Fraternity's early keet building
Handloom department 3
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Buildings used by handloom department; the upper middle bedroom was first occupied by Alu, mother of Firooza, 1974-75
Crochet department 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Heidi smiling while she crochets, 1974-77
Handloom department 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Woman winding thread onto bobbins for weavers, 1975-76
Embroidery department 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Valerie in kerchief with embroidery threads, 1975-76
Glowbal department 8
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Bryan checking quality of glowbal with Tamil letters, 1977
Glowbal department 7
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Arumugam assembling a glowbal, 1975-77
Glowbal department 6
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Kartikeyan applying adhesive to cane strips and handloom cloth over them, 1975-77
Handloom department 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Guy, Dassengu and Tommy Elder, 1975-77
Glowbal department 5
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Shankar tying cane ribbing, 1975-77
Glowbal department 4
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Arumugam, Kaliyapermual and Shanmugam slicing cane strips, 1975-77
Glowbal department 3
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Karthikeyan, Shanmugam and Veerappan assembling glowbals, 1975-77
Fraternity workers full team
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Weavers, tailors, crochet, embroidery, hammock and global workers, with Aurovilians Heidi, (unknown), Valerie, Patti, 1975-77
Fraternity tailor portrait
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Smiling man with sewing machine, 1975-77
Crochet department 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fanou with baby Aurelia, Gandhimadhi, Manima, Rajan, Vijaya, 1979
Fanou's team of ladies group portrait
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity ladies with Fanou including Mohana, Suriyagandi, Vijaya, 1977-79
Glowbal department 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Far view of lines of glowbals drying, August 1977
Glowbal department 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Two men in center of glowbals drying in the sun, August 1977
Fraternity tailors
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Three men at work with their sewing machines, Febraury 1980
Keywords: tailor
Fraternity candle-making department, Feb 1980
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Pouring wax into molds, adding wicks
Keywords: candles, candle making
Fraternity foundation ceremony, 2 February 1972
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Group surrounding hole for foundation stone (brick with blessing packet), including Selveraj, Palit, Elia
Palit's puja 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Puja arrangement with small photo of Palit, 11 August 1972
Fraternity sign writtten by Mother
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: "Fraternity" on paper with Mother's symbol, 2 February 1972
Early Fraternity business meeting
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Poppo, Jocelyne, Krishnaveni and Yakim around a table, 1973
Crochet department 4
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Krishnaveni teaching Angeli and Indrani, 1972-73
Fraternity's first workshop 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Workers covering the roof with keet, February 1972
The Fraternity master-weavers, Narayanan and Yakim
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Close-up of Narayanan and Yakim working together, 1972-73
Fraternity kindergarten 3
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Children playing in the pool with structure visible, 1973-74
Keywords: play, pool
Fraternity kindergarten 4
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Children playing in the pool, 1973-74
Handloom department 4
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Woman tying knots on bedcovers, September 1978
Palit's puja 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Man placing incense for Palit's puja in corner of workshop, 8 August 1972
Keywords: puja
Water! 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Girls in Fraternity enjoying their first pumped water, 1972
Fraternity water windmill tower 2
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Woman and children using handpump under scaffolding, 1972
Keywords: water, windmill, Fraternity, Tamil women and children
Fraternity water windmill tower 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Workers on well drilling scaffolding - the workers earned Rs. 5 per day - barren sand of 15 acres,1972
Water! 1
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Mohana and Gaja washing at handpump, 1972
Bryan looking down from Aurobateau opening
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity community kitchen (Aurobateau), 1972
Yakim on water-windmill tower
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Fraternity water-windmill tower, 1972
Field with young trees, Fraternity
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: From August to November 1972 over 200 trees were planted along with a number of causerina trees.
Keywords: planting, reforestation, causerina
1972-1980 Early Fraternity- land, community & Aurovilians
Publisher: Auroville Archives
Description: Solange, who helped with the Fraternity construction of Aurobateau
Keywords: portrait, AV children