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  • Workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.
  • Fukien province, China: women tea plantation workers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Fukien province, China: women tea plantation workers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Indian (cinchona plantation?) workers: men, women and children in front of a hut, Bengal, India (?). Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).
  • 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.
  • Indians on a coffee plantation washing in a lake and gathering together on the bank. Coloured lithograph by V. Adam, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers rolling and sifting tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • 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 with workers carrying and picking out 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: workers roll the caper tea into balls. Coloured lithograph.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers roll up and sift the tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • 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.
  • A Chinese woman picking tea leaves. Wood engraving, 1857, after a pen and ink drawing.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers pick the tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • A Chinese tea plantation with workers watering, picking and firing the tea. Lithograph by E. Gilks, c. 1850, after B. Clayton after Piqua.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers trim the harvested tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.
  • Six scenes from a Tamil village and neigbouring tea plantation. Coloured pen and ink drawing by J.P. Gulich, c. 1889.
  • A coffee plant (Coffea arabica), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Mérida city, Colombia. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.