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Drug factories

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7 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.
  • 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.
  • Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.

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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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    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

    | Date: March 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/7
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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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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    A busy balling room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.

    Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope) | Date: [1851] | Reference: 25038i
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Related topics

Temporary employment
Employees
Opium
Blue collar workers
Opium trade
Narcotics
Patna
Drugs
Manufacturing and Industrial Facilities
Drug Trafficking

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