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  • 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.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers rolling and sifting tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers heating and drying tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers grinding and balling the tea. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • A tea plantation in China with women picking and sifting tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers packing the tea into boxes. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • People with baskets and sacks pick cotton on a plantation. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.
  • A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers grinding tea and rolling it into balls. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • India:an indigo plantation, an overseer looking on, as others work picking indigo plants and processing them. Engraving, 1778.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers tread the tea in baskets. Coloured aquatint, early 19th century.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers prepare lead for tea containers. Coloured aquatint, early 19th century.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers carrying and picking out tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • A tea plantation in China: some men prepare the soil for planting while others rest. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Natal, South Africa: a sugar mill and plantation in Umzinto. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A tea plantation in China: monkeys gather tea leaves for men with baskets. Coloured aquatint, early 19th century.
  • A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.
  • A coca plantation in Peru in which stands an armed man and his dogs. Lithograph after Lieut. L. Gibbon.
  • 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.
  • An indigo plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.