Images Dated 23rd July 2021

Manufacture of Opium in India

Raising revenue of opium saw large profits in the drug to China. Photograph showing an intermediate stage in the process of preparation, lots of Indians working in the heat to make the drug ready for export chiefly to China, here you can see them making cake size portions. Date: late 1890s

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1890s, Drug, Drugs, East, Economic, India, Industry, Manufacture, Opium, Poppy, Process, Trade