The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art

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File:Advertisenment-Tea-Girl-Safety-Matches-India.jpg|Tea Girl Safety Matches box cover, India, circa 1930s.
File:Advertisenment-Tea-Girl-Safety-Matches-India.jpg|Tea Girl Safety Matches box cover, India, circa 1930s.
File:Tea-Pluckers-Ceylon,One-Woman.jpg|Tea Plucker, Ceylon (Sri Lanka): One woman, postcard front, 1920s.
File:Tea-Pluckers-Ceylon,One-Woman.jpg|Tea Plucker, Ceylon (Sri Lanka): One woman, postcard front, 1920s.
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File:Tea-Pluckers-Ceylon-Two-Women.jpg|Tea Plucker, Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Two women, postcard front, 1920s.
File:Tea-Pluckers-Ceylon-Three-Women.jpg|Tea Pluckers Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Three women, postcard front, 1920s.
File:Tea-Pluckers-Ceylon-Three-Women.jpg|Tea Pluckers Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Three women, postcard front, 1920s.
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File:The-Tea-Bush-andTea-Plusckers-at-Work.jpg|The Tea Bush and Tea Pluckers at Work, postcard front, 1920s.
 
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File:Seventeen-Women-Plucking-Tea-with-a-Male-Overseer-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-postcard-front.jpg|Tea Pluckers at Work; seventeen women plucking tea-with-a-male-overseer in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), circa 1910. postcard front.
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File:The-Tea-Bush-andTea-Plusckers-at-Work.jpg|The Tea Bush and Tea Pluckers at Work, postcard front, 1920s.
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File:Multiple-Women-Plucking-Tea-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-c1930s.jpg|Plucking Tea Upc Country Estate Ceylon: Multiple women plucking tea in Ceylon (Sri-Lanka} with  male overseers, circa 1930s, postcard front
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File:Ceylon-Tea-Pluckers.jpg|Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Tea Pluckers, chrome era, postcards front.
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File:Seventeen-Women-Plucking-Tea-with-a-Male-Overseer-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-postcard-front.jpg|Tea Pluckers at Work; seventeen women plucking tea with a male overseer in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), circa 1910. postcard front.
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File:Multiple-Women-Plucking-Tea-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-c1930s.jpg|Plucking Tea Up-Country Estate Ceylon: Multiple women plucking tea in Ceylon (Sri-Lanka} with  male overseers, circa 1930s, postcard front
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* [[The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art]]
* [[The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art]]
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[[Category:Tea]]
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Latest revision as of 00:38, 7 September 2022

On this page i am developing a gallery of images that feature a woman in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) plucking tea on vintage postcards and advertising. Stay tuned for more art, photos, postcards, advertisements, and socio-political theorizing about this trope in commercial tea leaf art.

catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room

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