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  • A tobacco plantation with workers, a Mexican Indian (?) and two European masters. Coloured engraving, c. 1821.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers load boxes of tea for export onto rafts. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • Workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers pick the tea leaves and place them in baskets. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • Natal, South Africa: workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • 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: workers seated on a verandah grade the tea leaves by hand. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • Indian (cinchona plantation?) workers: men, women and children in front of a hut, Bengal, India (?). Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • A Chinese tea plantation with workers carrying and firing the tea. Engraving by A. Willmore, c. 1843, after T. Allom.
  • Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation, with workers transplanting the rice. Engraving by T.A. Prior, c. 1840, after T. Allom.
  • A Chinese tea plantation with workers cleaning the racks on which the leaves are laid. Coloured etching, early 19th century.
  • An indigo plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • A tea plantation in China: female workers trim the harvested leaves, which are brought to them in paniers by a male worker. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • A Chinese tea plantation with workers watering, picking and firing the tea. Lithograph by E. Gilks, c. 1850, after B. Clayton after Piqua.
  • Agriculture: a coconut tree plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with workers in the foreground and an overseer (?) off to the left. Wood engraving.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers prepare the soil for planting tea, while others rest nearby and eat from bowls with chopsticks. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation with workers sowing the rice, and operating a treadmill chain-bucket for water. Engraving by W. Weatherhead, c. 1840, after T. Allom.
  • 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 (?).
  • India:an indigo plantation, an overseer looking on, as others work picking indigo plants and processing them. Engraving, 1778.
  • Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.
  • Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.
  • Coal Tar Colour Works at Greenford in 1858 & 1873. Plant belonging to W. H. Perkin and his brother, T. D. Perkin.
  • Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • Planters Foods Limited : manufacturers of margarine, compound, edible fats, refined oils, and other high-class food preparations : registered office & works, Brombro Port, Cheshire.
  • A man carries a large pot plant while, in the background, gardeners are at work. Etching by J.C. Le Vasseur, 18th century, after Teniers.
  • The gardener's dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet. With the addition of a great number of plants / [Philip Miller].
  • The gardener's dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet. With the addition of a great number of plants / [Philip Miller].