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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.
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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.
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Men drinking Mate
Three friends drink Yerba Mate. Two hold the mates while one holds the thermos.
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Modern Mate set
A plastic and aluminum Mate set in present day.
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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.
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Mate
Yerba Mate in hands
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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.
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Chinese Pu-Erh Tea, Loose Leaf
This is an image of loose leaf tea.
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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.
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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.
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Indian Tea Fights Fatigue, 1948
This is a poster for the Indian Tea Market Expansion Bureau, from an archive in Calcutta.
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Modern Mate set
Modern full mate set, made from aluminum.
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Silver Mate
Mate made from silver, decorated with animals.
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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.
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SAROTTI Spot 1954: Sarotti Mohr im Bus
Sarotti advertisement in which the Sarotti Mohr can be seen happily handing white women chocolate
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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
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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
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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.
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Bruce Richardson, Photograph of Ming Dynasty Teapot, 2014
This is a photograph of a Ming dynasty teapot recovered from the Hatcher ship
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Maxwell House Coffee TV Ad: "Loud Grinder," 2012
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Maxwell Coffee House Modern Day TV Ad: "Three Levels," 2017
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Maxwell Coffee House Modern Day TV Ad: "Indulge," 2017
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Maxwell House Coffee TV ads, 1950s
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Political Map of India, 2016
This is a modern map of India so you can orient yourself to the different items in my exhibit. Note Ahmedabad in the west, then moving east, Jaipur, New Delhi, and Kolkata.
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Finlays Tea Plantation