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Ceylon tea packers.

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection

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Pacific pursuits : Postcards

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Sri Lanka -- Life

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Ceylon tea packers.

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Title
Ceylon tea packers.
Names
Raphael Tuck & Sons (Publisher)
Collection

Pacific pursuits : Postcards

Sri Lanka -- Life

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1908
Place: Printed in England
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC POC SRI -- Lif
Topics
Sri Lankans
Tea industry
Crates
Scales
Contract laborers
Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people)
Genres
Postcards
Notes
Content: Printed on verso: "The amount of tea exported annually from Ceylon exceeds 150,000,000 lbs., and about 100,000 coolies from Southern India are employed in the tea-gardens. The greatest tea-districts are Dickoya and Dimbula, where a large number of coolies are employed under the skilled charge of such men as the Cingalese overseer here shown."
Physical Description
Halftone photomechanical prints
Extent: 9 x 14 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0e0821b0-c5d3-012f-a6fd-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1908: Issued
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Ceylon tea packers." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1908. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c261e829-383b-8b35-e040-e00a18061102

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Ceylon tea packers." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c261e829-383b-8b35-e040-e00a18061102

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1908). Ceylon tea packers. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c261e829-383b-8b35-e040-e00a18061102

Wikipedia Citation

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Ceylon tea packers.