Weighing Department of the Tea Factory, Chakva

photo shows the interior of a tea packaging and weighing operation located at the Chakva tea farm and processing plant just north of Batumi, close to the Black Sea coast in what is now the Republic of Georgia. The Chakva farm and plant was one of the major suppliers of tea to all parts of the Russian Empire. 108. Weighing Department of the Tea Factory, Chakva — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915 (Georgia, Georgia (Republic), Chakva). Subjects: interiors, packaging, factories, tea industry, scales. Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Weighing Department of the Tea Factory, Chakva — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915 (Georgia, Georgia (Republic), Chakva).

Subjects: interiors, packaging, factories, tea industry, scales.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: Razviesochnoe otdielenīe. [Chakva].