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M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds

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.

Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation, with workers transplanting the rice. Engraving by T.A. Prior, c. 1840, after T. Allom.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.

A plantation of cochineal cacti (Nopalea cochenillifera) with workers gathering and preparing cochineal. Engraving.

A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph.

Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.

Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.

A tea plantation in China: workers trimming the tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.

A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.

M0001558: Photograph of plantation workers on a Cinchona plantation, Kinatuin, in Lembang

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Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.

Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation, with workers transplanting the rice. Engraving by T.A. Prior, c. 1840, after T. Allom.

A tea plantation in China: workers trimming the tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.

A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.

M0001558: Photograph of plantation workers on a Cinchona plantation, Kinatuin, in Lembang