India Express, 1911

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Title
India Express, 1911
Description
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.
Creator
Lipton's Tea Company
Source
Lutgendorf, Philip, “Making Tea in India: Chai, Capitalism and Culture” Thesis Eleven 113. 1. (2012): 11-31. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274463295_Making_tea_in_India_Chai_capitalism_culture [accessed Oct, 18. 2019]
Date
1911
Contributor
Megan Deacon

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