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  • Java: two opium smokers, one reclining, the other one sitting. Process print.
  • A Chinese man sits smoking an opium pipe. Wood engraving after E. Ronjat.
  • A mother who believes that an "Infants preservative" (medicine for infants) will preserve her child from danger in a collapsing house. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
  • A skeletal hand offering opium poppies to a living hand. Colour lithograph after S. Smirnov, 1987.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers, one reclines on a bed and the other sits. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • A man selling opium; nearby a woman breast feeds her baby. Engraving by F. W. Topham, c. 1840, after W. Muller.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers reclining in a booth watched by a woman with bound feet. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • An opium den in London's East End with a reclining smoker being watched by a group of men. Wood engraving by A. Doms, 1872, after G. Doré.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Engraving by G. Paterson, 1843, after T. Allom.