Photograph
Description:
Photograph of tobacco processing workers sripping the stems of tobacco plants in Southern Rhodesia, which is today Zimbabwe.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: c.1950s
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Photograph
Description:
Photograph of fully automated press control panel at Wilson factory in North Carolina, America. The factory was owned by Imperial Tobacco Company.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Photograph
Description:
Photograph of picking bands at Greenville factory in North Carolina, America. The factory was owned by Imperial Tobacco Company.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Photograph
Description:
Photograph of picking lines at Wilson factory in North Carolina, America. The factory was owned by Imperial Tobacco Company.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: unknown
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Photograph
Description:
Photograph of drying leaf tobacco (part of tobacco processing), in Southern Rhodesia, which is today Zimbabwe.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: c.1950s
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:Neg 2988
Photograph
Description:
Photograph of tobacco processing workers stripping stalks from tobacco leaves in Southern Rhodesia, which is today Zimbabwe.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: c.1950s
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:Neg 2980
Photograph
Description:
Photograph of men treading tobacco leaf down into barrels in Southern Rhodesia, which is today Zimbabwe.
Reproduced with kind permission of Wills (now Imperial Tobacco).
Date: c.1950s
Copyright: Copyright, Imperial Tobacco
Object ID:Neg 2990
Photograph of the Tobacco Factory
Description:
Photograph of the Tobacco Factory in Raleigh Road, Bristol. This is the remaining part of what was once a tobacco factory, it now houses a theatre, restaurant and bar. It was one of three in Bristol owned by WD and HO Wills. This particular factory was still making cigars up until 1983. Today, there is still a cigar factory in Bristol, on Winterstoke Road.
Architect George Ferguson is the owner/developer of the Tobacco Factory as it is today.
Creator: BCC Museum
Date: 2003
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Splitting cocoa pods
Description:
Splitting pods, from Historicus, Cocoa: All About It , 1896. Cocoa beans were used in the chocolate making process.
Cocoa, which was used to make chocolate, was grown on slave planations in the Caribbean and brought to Bristol for processing.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Creator: Historicus, Cocoa: All About It
Date: 1896
Copyright: Copyright BCC Library Service
Grinding
Description:
Picture: Grinding, from Le Bon Usage du The, du Caffe, et du Chocolat by de Blegny, 1687.
Cocoa, which was used to make chocolate, was grown on slave planations in the Caribbean and brought to Bristol for processing.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
By permission of the British Library
Creator: De Blegny
Date: 1687
Copyright: Copyright The British Library
Object ID:(BL Shelfmark: 450.b.26)
