Opium Warehouse of the East India Company

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Mark Cartwright
by Wellcome Images
published on 27 September 2022
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A c. 1850 print showing an opium warehouse of the East India Company in Patna, India. Opium was dried into large balls and then packed into chests for transportation to China.

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