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Subject Tea Industry Level [40] File

1. 1787.d.7, 1(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(40)
Title:
Tea picking in Canton. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of four women, seated at a table in the open, sorting tea: 'Black teas, after being partially dried in the sun, and slightly fired, are rolled either by the palm of the hand on a flat tray, or by the foot in a hempen bag. They are scorched in...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 1(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(42)
Title:
Rolling scented caper and gunpowder teas. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two men, supported by their arms from a beam, rolling bags of tea into large balls with their feet.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.7, 1(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(43)
Title:
Weighing tea for exportation. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View showing tea being weighed on scales supported by sheerlegs, with a European figure seated in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

4. 1787.d.7, 1(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(44)
Title:
A tea house, Canton. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) 'A number of men may be seen during the tea season in front of the house, employed, as shown in the photograph, in picking, sampling, and sorting the tea, or in preparing the chests for its reception...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

5. 1787.d.7, 1(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(45)
Title:
A tea-tasting room, Canton. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
'This photograph represents two Chinese tea merchants in a foreign taster's room, awaiting an offer for their samples. Every foreign house in Canton that does any trade in tea has a room specially fitted up for the accommodation of the taster. The windows of the room have a northern aspect, and ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

6. 1787.d.7, 2(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 2(60)
Title:
The tea plant. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View of rows of tea bushes on a plantation, with a picker at work.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

7. 1787.d.7, 2(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 2(61)
Title:
The tea plant. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View of rows of tea bushes on a plantation, with buildings in the background.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

8. L.R.404.k.10(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.404.k.10(24)
Title:
Tea-pickers. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of tea-pickers (mainly children), posed with their baskets.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1148(76)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(76)
Title:
Girls picking tea on famous plantation at Uji, among the sunny hills of old Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1183(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1183(28)
Title:
[Waspada tea plantation on the north slope of the Cikuray near Garut.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Numbered '23' in pencil on mount. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the tea plantation, planted out on the hillside, with the cloud-swathed peak rising beyond. Caption supplied from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994),...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item