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Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.

A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

A busy stacking room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

A busy drying room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

M0001815: Reproduction of a photograph showing the inside of a N.V. Blauw-Vriesveem cinchona warehouse, possibly taken during a visit to the Kina Bureau and establishments in Amsterdam, 1924

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Drug factories

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Images about Drug factories

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A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

M0001815: Reproduction of a photograph showing the inside of a N.V. Blauw-Vriesveem cinchona warehouse, possibly taken during a visit to the Kina Bureau and establishments in Amsterdam, 1924

A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.

A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

Drug factories

Images from the collections

Images about Drug factories

Works from the collections

A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

M0001815: Reproduction of a photograph showing the inside of a N.V. Blauw-Vriesveem cinchona warehouse, possibly taken during a visit to the Kina Bureau and establishments in Amsterdam, 1924

A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.

A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

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