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  • The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic. Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
  • The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic. Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / [Thomas Dancer].
  • Peter Williamson, kidnapped as a child and transported to the American plantations; became traveller and writer. Reproduction of an engraving by R. Cooper.
  • Sowing cinchona seeds in a nursery bed, Munsong plantation.
  • Thursday Plantation : the world's most powerful natural antiseptic.
  • Thursday Plantation : the world's most powerful natural antiseptic.
  • Thursday Plantation : the world's most powerful natural antiseptic.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.
  • Jamaica: a sugar plantation. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1821.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers pick the tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • Fukien province, China: women tea plantation workers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Fukien province, China: women tea plantation workers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers water the young tea plants. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers trim the harvested tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers are shown weaving baskets. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • A tea plantation in China: tea is shown being weighed, while workers tread down congou tea into chests and a man in Western dress converses with a senior plantation worker. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers sifting tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers trimming the tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers roll the caper tea into balls. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers heat and dry the tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers tread down congou tea into chests. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers grade the tea leaves by hand. Coloured lithograph.
  • A plantation of cochineal cacti (Nopalea cochenillifera) with workers gathering and preparing cochineal. Engraving.
  • The Munsong cinchona plantation, Kalimpong, Bengal, India: Cinchona succirubra trees (used in production of the anti-malarial drug quinine); a plantation worker stands in front of the trees holding a large container. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).
  • A tea plantation in China: workers make tea chests. Coloured aquatint, early 19th century.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers roll up and sift the tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers load tea canisters for export onto rafts. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers pack the tea into canisters for export. Coloured lithograph.
  • Tobacco plantation workers curing and preparing tobacco under a shelter. Engraving, mid-18th century.