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Cocoa Plantation in Grenada
This black and white illustration shows three dark-skinned women picking and sorting cocoa pods in a lush forest.
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Photo of Women in Tea Garden
This is a photo of tea pickers in a tea garden in Colombo, Ceylon.
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Photo of "The tea house children"
This photo depicts children, who live on a tea estate, sitting outside a tea house in Assam.
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Report of the Superintendent of the Assam Company
This book contains a communication from the superintendent of the Assam Company, George Williamson, to the esquire secretary of the company, Henry Mornay, written in 1854.
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Cover for Needlecraft Magazine
This is a cover for Needlecraft Magazine. It depicts a woman sitting at a table setting a table for tea, presumably preparing for company.
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A Mad Dog in a Coffee House
This is a painting in watercolors that is satirizing stockbrokers who are terrified of a mad dog that has entered their coffeehouse. One woman serving coffee behind the back counter is not caricaturized.
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Advertisement for Yerba Asunción, "Una mirada que lo dice todo!"
Advertisement featuring a well dressed couple sharing yerba mate in a nice room with a title that translates to "A look that says it all!" The product itself along with a description is featured beneath the main image.
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Postcard of "Tea Estate Coolie Lines"
This is a still image depicting housing accommodations for families of plantation laborers on a tea estate in Ceylon [modern-day Sri Lanka].
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La yerba mate Asunción es tradicional
This advertisement for Asunción brand yerba mate features well-dressed people sitting and sharing yerba mate. Created by a Paraguayan company, this advertisement was aimed at Argentine consumers, saying that "la yerba mate Asunción es tradicional" (Asunción yerba mate is traditional).
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Porcelain plate "Santos. Embarque de café"
This porcelain plate depicts the loading process of coffee beans from local carts to a large sailing ship.
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De tal yerba tales mates!
This advertisement featuring a woman holding a box of Flor de Lis brand yerba mate was created by Paraguayan producers for Argentine consumers.
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Advertisement for Yerba Asuncion Mate, "Cada Mañana"
Advertisement featuring the inside of a nice house with three women in dresses and heels, and a man in a suit. One woman in preparing the yerba mate from a container that features the brand, and the other three people in the advertisement are walking down the staircase.
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A Midnight Modern Conversation
This etching or engraving is printed in black and red on ivory laid paper. It shows a satirical image of a coffeehouse with men fighting and smoking.
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Golden Tips: A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry
This is a printed book published by "Golden Tips," a British tea company. It describes Ceylon’s tea industry from the perspective of a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. He seeks to understand how the tea industry came to exist in Ceylon, from a geological, anthropological and historical perspective.
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Cover of Today's Magazine
This is the cover of Today's Magazine. It depicts a woman wearing an elaborate coat and hat, sitting on a bed of multicolor pillows while drinking a cup of tea.
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La yerba ñanduty
This advertisement for yerba mate was created by Argentine producers for Argentine consumers, featuring imagery of and a letter from Argentine footballers (soccer players).
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Sunday Record-Herald
This is the cover of the Sunday morning edition of the Sunday Record-Herald. It depicts a woman sitting at the table making a kettle of tea, with the steam from the kettle meant to look like a face.
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Del corazón de la selva!
This advertisement is for Aguila brand yerba mate, created in Argentina and aimed at Argentine consumers. It claims to be "del corazón de la selva" (from the heart of the jungle).
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Advertisement for Salus Yerba Mate, "En Todos Los Buenos Almacenes"
Advertisement featuring a well-dressed woman drinking yerba mate as well as several packages of the yerba mate product in various sizes. Each package of the product also features the woman, and there is a description below the image explaining why Salus mate is the best quality mate.
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Flavour of Unitea … Beyond Borders, 2019
Two white tea cups touching with a map sketched on them.
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Taj Mahal Tea Advertisement, 2019
Advertisement showing a man drinking tea next to an image of Taj Mahal tea.
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Advertisement for Brooke Bond Tea, circa. 1960-1970
Brooke Bond Tea advertisement depicting two colorful birds against a bright color scheme. The advertisement shows an illustration of the tea box. Brooke Bond tea is a British company which sells tea mostly in India.
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Lipton’s Tea: The Connoisseur’s Choice, circa. 1930-1940
Advertisement for Lipton’s tea, showing a tea pot pouring tea into cups.
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Lipton's Tea: World Renowned, Direct for Tea Garden to Tea Table, 1935
Lipton's Tea Advertisement which shows a woman with dark skin in a tea planting field reaches over to serve a white woman. The image is cordial and shows the women happily interacting. In the background are more Indian women picking tea in the field.
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Omanhene Chocolate Founder Sitting With Bowls of Cocoa
This image shows the founder of Omanhene chocolate company, Stephen Wallace, sitting at a table with 8 cups of cocoa representing each stage of its production. The final product, an unwrapped chocolate bar, is at the end of the line.