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
Picture No
13465286
Media ID
47822653
Size
5599px x 4095px
(3.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd in The Queen's Empire', volume 2, page 163
Date
late 1890s
