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• Underage Worker Carrying Cocoa Beans
  The image is a photograph that shows a little boy (underage worker) carrying a bin of cocoa beans on top of his head on a plantation.
• TATA TEA Gold - Dil Ko Na Kahoge Toh Pachtaoge , 2019
  A video advertisement from Tata Tea. Transcript: Father: It is a good offer! But it is a different city....why don't you ask to be posted in our city? Daughter: The head office is there. I will have a better career. Father: Where is your home? (implying your home is in our city) Mother: Tea? Daughter(looking disappointed): No Narrator: TATA Tea Gold(name of the tea). It has both the tea seeds as well as 15% longer leaves. This gives it amazing taste and aroma. Conversation in kitchen: Daugther(Smells the tea)[Talking to her mother]: This amazing aroma makes my heart want some tea. Mother: What will happen if you don't listen to your heart? Daughter: I will regret it, ma. Mother: Then listen to your heart. Daughter: "Head Office" Father(lightly smacking daughter with her offer): Come home every holiday Narrator: TATA Tea Gold: You will regret saying no to your heart.
• Indian Tea Relieves Lassitude, circa. 1940
  A tea advertisement in the Hindustan Times. The advertisement depicts a man and a woman wearing cultural Indian dress and drinking tea, as a young boy sits in front of an open book. The advertisement says 'Indian Tea relieves lassitude'
• Tea is 100% Swadeshi, 1947
  Poster for Indian Tea Market Expansion Bureau. Poster depicts an Indian woman sitting and drinking tea next to what can be assumed to be a spindle of some kind. The woman is wearing garments associated with Indian culture and is bare foot.
• Indian Express, 1911
  A Lipton's Tea advertisement poster from 1911. The advertisement depicts a vast field and house, most likely representative of a tea planting field and in the forefront is a table surrounded by two white women and two white men, with one woman with dark skin serving one of the white men. There is also an ambiguous figure carrying an item on their head. The poster’s states ‘Tea & Coffee Merchants: To His Excellency Lord Hardinge, Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
• Pouring Sacks of Coffee into the Ship's Hold at Santos
  The image is a photograph that depicts a considerable number of bags of coffee loaded on a sailing ship to be traded in Santos, Brazil.
• Men drinking Mate
  Three friends drink Yerba Mate. Two hold the mates while one holds the thermos.
• Modern Mate set
  A plastic and aluminum Mate set in present day.
• Indigenous family drinking mate
  An indigenous group of women, children, and men sit together in their home, waiting for their turn to drink the mate.
• Mate
  Yerba Mate in hands
• Chinese Pu-Erh Tea, Tea Cake
  This is an image of a tea cake. Tea cakes were the predecessors to loose leaf tea and were a symbol of status in the Song dynasty.
• Chinese Pu-Erh Tea, Loose Leaf
  This is an image of loose leaf tea.
• China Scenic, Jian'an Tea Bowl Cross Section
  This is a cross section of a Jian'an tea bowl. These bowls were specially designed during the Song dynasty to produce and maintain foam during tea competitions.
• Mucho Gusto, Cooking Magazine, Argentina, November 1955
  This is an Argentine magazine about cooking and food called Mucho Gusto from 1955. The cover has a white woman stirring something and the articles are about beauty and women's work.
• Indian Tea Fights Fatigue, 1948
  This is a poster for the Indian Tea Market Expansion Bureau, from an archive in Calcutta.
• Modern Mate set
  Modern full mate set, made from aluminum.
• Silver Mate
  Mate made from silver, decorated with animals.
• Instructions for Tea Making Advertisement in Calcutta, 1953.
  This advertisement, in a Calcutta newspaper, has a cartoon spokesman saying 'I am chai' in Bangla, while also listing five simple steps for brewing chai.
• SAROTTI Spot 1954: Sarotti Mohr im Bus
  Sarotti advertisement in which the Sarotti Mohr can be seen happily handing white women chocolate
• Chocolat Advertisement (Felix Potin)
  An advertisement for whipped chocolate that depicts a black figure serving chocolate. This is a common theme among many advertisements during the time
• African Cocoa Farm
  African workers harvesting cocoa on their farm. Africa's cocoa industry is made up of many small to medium sized farms such as this
• Mucho Gusto, Cooking Magazine, Argentina, November 1955
  This is an Argentine magazine about cooking and food called Mucho Gusto from 1955. The cover has a white woman stirring something and the articles are about beauty and women's work.
• Bruce Richardson, Photograph of Ming Dynasty Teapot, 2014
  This is a photograph of a Ming dynasty teapot recovered from the Hatcher ship
• Maxwell House Coffee TV Ad: "Loud Grinder," 2012
• Maxwell Coffee House Modern Day TV Ad: "Three Levels," 2017