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Opium trade

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Images about Opium trade

12 images from works
  • 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.
  • Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.
  • Mandsaur Opium Agency : No ... Dated ... Hundi ... Pass duty on sheets of opium ... Drawer ... Drawer at Bombay ... Hundi stamp paper Rs.
  • 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.
  • Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.
  • The boiling and testing of opium by Chinese men watched by a European man. Wood-engraving by F. Dadd, c. 1880.
  • A busy drying room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • Mandsaur Opium Agency : No ... Dated ... Hundi ... Pass duty on sheets of opium ... Drawer ... Drawer at Bombay ... Hundi stamp paper Rs.
  • Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.

Works from the collections

61 works

    • Ephemera

    Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.

    | Date: 1894
    • Books

    Drugs, politics, and diplomacy : the international connection / edited by Luiz R.S. Simmons, Abdul A. Said.

    | Date: 1974
    • Books

    Opium poppy cultivation / by "O".

    O | Date: [1979]
    • Books

    The voyage of the 'Frolic' : New England merchants and the opium trade / Thomas N. Layton.

    Layton, Thomas N. | Date: 1997
    • Books

    The opium trade and Sir Rutherford Alcock / by B. Fossett Lock.

    Lock, Benjamin Fossett, 1847-1922. | Date: [1883?]
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China
India
Opium
United Kingdom
Narcotics
Drug Trafficking
Opium
Drugs
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