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A tea plantation in China: workers roll the caper tea into balls. Coloured lithograph.

Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.

A tea plantation in China: workers water the young plants. Coloured lithograph.

A tea plantation in China: workers pick the tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.

A tea plantation in China: workers grade the tea leaves by hand. Coloured lithograph.

A Chinese tea plantation with workers watering, picking and firing the tea. Lithograph by E. Gilks, c. 1850, after B. Clayton after Piqua.

A tea plantation in China: workers roll up and sift the tea leaves. Coloured lithograph.

Agriculture: a coconut tree plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with workers in the foreground and an overseer (?) off to the left. Wood engraving.

A tea plantation in China: workers load tea canisters for export onto rafts. Coloured lithograph.

A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.

Workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.

Genes, enzymes, and populations / edited by Adrian M. Srb.

Speeches at a luncheon to the prime ministers and representatives of the dominions & India to the Imperial Conference, 1926 / Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.

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Tropical crops

Images from the collections

Images about Tropical crops

Works from the collections

A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.

Workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.

Genes, enzymes, and populations / edited by Adrian M. Srb.

Agriculture: a coconut tree plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with workers in the foreground and an overseer (?) off to the left. Wood engraving.

Speeches at a luncheon to the prime ministers and representatives of the dominions & India to the Imperial Conference, 1926 / Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.

Tropical crops

Images from the collections

Images about Tropical crops

Works from the collections

A tea plantation in China: workers sow the seed. Coloured lithograph.

Workers harvesting the crop on a coffee plantation. Coloured lithograph by Deroi, c. 1850, after J. M. Rugendas.

Genes, enzymes, and populations / edited by Adrian M. Srb.

Agriculture: a coconut tree plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with workers in the foreground and an overseer (?) off to the left. Wood engraving.

Speeches at a luncheon to the prime ministers and representatives of the dominions & India to the Imperial Conference, 1926 / Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.

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