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An ink drawing of Theodore Hook as a young man.

The illustration depicts a British female figure, standing for civilization, leading a military that consists of British men in a charge against foreign, primitive barbarians.

This image shows a telegraph line and lamp post in Lagos, Nigeria under British rule. Adults sit and stand by the waterfront next to piled up objects.

The picture shows a bottle of quinine, an important anti-malaria drug.

An Indian man and boy scraping cinchona bark, used to make quinine, on the Munsong chinchona plantation in Kalimpong, Bengal, India.

This map shows the extent of the railroads in India as of 1865.

This map depicts the extent of railways in India as of 1871.

This map shows the extent of railways in India in 1893.