Plantations Collection

Map of Ceylon showing tea industry plantations
Map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) showing tea industry plantations. Date: circa 1920

Cotton Plantation
A Cotton Plantation in the South, USA 1890s. Painting by Herman Hubner. Date: 1890s

Loading sugar cane in a field, Cuba. Date: circa 1910

Great Western Tea Factory, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1920

Sifting Tea in Assam, India
British Empire multiplied the tea gardens in north-east corner of India due to demand in Britain. Photograph showing one of the many processes of sifting the tea prior to packing. Date: late 1890s

Blue Mountain Peak, Jamaica, West Indies
Blue Mountain Peak (the island's highest point), Jamaica, West Indies. The famed Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is grown in the region

View of a Fuli town and plantations, Senegambia
View of a Fuli or Fula town and plantations, Senegambia, 18th century. Circular walled village of the Fuli people. With cattle and guard house at left, rows of huts in centre

Plan of the King of Sines palace, Joal, Senegambia, 18th century. Entrance A, courts B, connecting huts C, kings hut D, wives huts E, reception area F, dining area G, servants huts H

Jamaican industry was struggling against fierce rivalry of production volumes from the great European Nations manufactures

Nutmeg plantation 1868
Island of Penang, in the Indian Ocean by the Strait of Malacca, consisted of a vast plantation of fruit trees of which the nutmeg was run by an English enterprise

Tobacco Plantation
Virginia, USA : clearing ground preparatory to planting tobacco on a plantation Date: 1874

Plumbago preparation, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Plumbago (Leadwort) preparation, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Plantation at Lake Caijo, French Congo
Group of people standing and crouching on a path next to a palm tree with the irrigation system at a plantation at Lake Caijo in French Congo

Tea plantation workers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Tea plantation workers in the fields, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930

Tea Estate and Factory, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
General view, Tea Estate and Factory, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1930

Country scene with five sugar estates, Barbados, West Indies. Date: circa 1910

Coffee plantation at the Aby Lagoon, Ivory Coast
Buildings of a coffee plantation at the Aby Lagoon in the south-east of Ivory Coast (then French West Africa). Date: circa 1910

Maison Sargos at a cacao and coffee plantation, Congo
Maison Sargos at a cacao and coffee plantation in the Kouilou Department in south of the Republic of the Congo (then French Equatorial Africa) at the west coast of Africa. Date: circa 1910

Cuban tobacco plantation
A tobacco plantation in Cuba Date: 1870

Tobacco Plantation
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Tobacco Plantation In Rhodesia Date: 1927-1933

The Plantations, River Derwent, Malton, North Yorkshire Date: circa 1910s

Sugar mill machinery
Diagrams showing part of the elevation and plan of an improved sugar refinery by Edward Woollery Esq of Jamaica. Date: 18th century

Worker - Sisal Plantation. Tanzania, Africa

Destruction of rainforest: preparation for oil-palm plantation which replaces rainforest in a river-valley, (Elaeis guineensis). Sabah, Borneo; Malaysia; June

Oil palm fruits are piled on a road-side along one of the oil-palm plantations (Elaeis guineensis). Labuk Bay, Sabah, Borneo; Malaysia; June

Sugar Plantation
Sugar plantation in Cuba, 1920s. Date: 1920s

Banana palms
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Banana Palms Date: 1927-1933

Illustration of growing and managing trees. Illustration (intaglio) from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Des semis et plantations des arbres, et de leur culture. Plate VI. Date: 1760

Advert for Imperial Chemical Industries; shortage of rubber
During World War Two, Britain got 90% of their suppies of natural rubber from Japan, due to this, rubber became scarce. Old rubber was collected from old tyres and worn hose-pipes

View of hills and tree plantations, Dominica, West Indies
View of hills and tree plantations on the island of Dominica, West Indies. 1949

Sago Industry of Sarawak
The Sago Industry of Sarawak (one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo). Cleaning Sago flour. Date: circa 1930s

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