Selling tea in Calcutta

Description

From the end of the nineteenth century, Calcutta was one of the great tea emporiums of the world. Here, in a small shop, in a street filled with similar shops, a family firm (stretching back to the 1940's) of tea sellers purhcase boxes of tea and retail them to the public. The portrait of the founder smiles down benevolently on the lucrative business. c. 2000