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Blue collar workers

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

    Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope) | Date: [1851] | Reference: 25039i
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    Sick, not dead : the health of British workingmen during the mortality decline / James C. Riley.

    Riley, James C. | Date: [1997], ©1997
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    A busy mixing room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

    Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope) | Date: [1851] | Reference: 25043i
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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.

    Bourne & Shepherd. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 25047i
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    Saints who, though noble, were condemned to work in mines, dig the fields, cut the crops, act as herders, or look after camels. Woodcut.

    | Reference: 11046i
    Part of: Cruciatus sanctorum martyrum
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