The Munsong cinchona plantation, Kalimpong, Bengal, India: scraping cinchona bark (used to produce the anti-malarial drug quinine) from a tree; an Indian man in a turban and an Indian boy. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).

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1905-1920
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564488i
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The Munsong cinchona plantation, Kalimpong, Bengal, India: scraping cinchona bark (used to produce the anti-malarial drug quinine) from a tree; an Indian man in a turban and an Indian boy. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1905-1920

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 31.4 x 26.1 cm

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Removing cinchona bark, for analysis from a selected tree, Munsong plantation

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Wellcome Collection 564488i

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