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Images

  • A woman having a bath and being given a cup of tea. Process print after Charles Shannon, 1907.
  • A priest taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Engraving by Remi Parr after N. Lancret.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers roll the caper tea into balls. Coloured lithograph.
  • Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
  • Yes! C.W.S. : obtainable from all co-operative stores.
  • Queen of the Liliputians : height 31 inches, age 26.
  • A patient lies on a chaise-longue, while a nurse brings her some refreshment. Wood engraving by J.C. Griffiths after G.G. Kilburne.
  • J. Rickett & Co., successors to Evans & Stokes : grocers, tea dealers, butter, cheese & hop factors : 64 & 65 Broad Street, Worcester.
  • A happy Christmas : John Clark, tea, grocery & provision dealer, confectioner, bread and biscuit baker, 119, High Street, Dover.
  • Premium ticket / F.H. Bushway Flavoring Extract Co., Incorporated.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Tea and tea blending : a guide for the young grocer.

    | Date: [1952]
  • view Two women taking tea at a small round table. Ink drawing by S. Jenner, ca. 1850.
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    Two women taking tea at a small round table. Ink drawing by S. Jenner, ca. 1850.

    Jenner, Stephen, 1796- | Date: 1850-1859 | Reference: 560864i
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    Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, etc. With plain and useful rules for gouty people / By Thomas Short, M.D.

    Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772 | Date: 1750
  • view A woman having a bath and being given a cup of tea. Process print after Charles Shannon, 1907.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman having a bath and being given a cup of tea. Process print after Charles Shannon, 1907.

    Shannon, Charles, 1863-1937 | Reference: 33961i
  • view The uses of tea in the healthy system / by Edward Smith.
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    The uses of tea in the healthy system / by Edward Smith.

    Smith, Edward, 1818?-1874 | Date: 1861
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