Lettuce Collection

Salad vegetables, plantes pour salades. Endives, Chicorium endivia, lettuce, Lactuca sativa, Romaine lettuce, Lactuca sativa var. longifolia, endive varieties, Cichorium endivia var. crispum

Vintage lettuce seed packet
A lettuce seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Comic postcard, Vegetable love, The Allotment Love Letter Date: 20th century

Wild lettuce or bitter lettuce, Lactuca virosa. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler

Kraft Cheese Advertisement Illustration
An advertisement illustration for Kraft Cheese Co. Ltd, showing a lady taking a spoonful of miracle whip salad dressing, for her plate of lettuce, tomatoes and salami. Date: circa 1939

Rabbits
This woodcut shows a pair of contrasting white and black rabbits nestled beside some lettuce leaves in a fenced garden. Date: circa 1921

Extinct fossil coral Palaeocyclus porpita 1, and Fungia
Extinct fossil coral Palaeocyclus porpita 1, Fungia fungites 2, 3. Ciclolite numismale, Fongia patellare, Fongia lumaca. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus

Water lettuce or Nile cabbage, Pistia stratiotes. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Narrow-leaved lungwort, Pulmonaria angustifolia
Narrow-leaved lungwort or blue cowslip, Pulmonaria angustifolia. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence

Advert, Wesson Oil for cooking and salads. 1926

Corn salad or lambs lettuce, Valerianella locusta (Valeriana locusta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Lettuce coral, Pectinia lactuca (Lettuce madrepore, Madrepora lactuca). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Viper grass, lettuce and catananche species
Purple viper grass, Scorzonera purpurea, perennial lettuce, Lactuca perennis, blue catananche, Catananche caerulea, serrated-leaved chaetanthera, Chaetanthera serrata, and white prenanthes

Chameleon spurge, Euphorbia dulcis, and tree spurge, Euphorbia dendroides. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Myrtle spurge, Euphorbia myrsinites, and sea spurge, Euphorbia paralias. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Dwarf lettuce, Lactuca sessilis, and prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Stinking chamomile, Anthemis cotula, and wild lettuce, Lactuca maior. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Coral species
Lettuce coral, Agaricia agaricites, Madrepora agaricites 1, worm holes covered with stony coral 2, Acropora abrotanoides, Madrepora abrotonoides 3, and spherical clump of coral 4

Salad plants, plantes pour salades. Dandelion, Taraxacum dens, corn salad, Valeriana locusta, lettuce, Lactuca sativa, chicory, Cichorium intybus, and endive, Cichorium endivia

Vegetable and salad leaves, herbes potageres et pour salades. American black nightshade, Solanum americanum, Solanum nigrum, New Zealand spinach, Tetragona expansa, pokeweed, Phytolacca decandra

Indian lettuce, Claytonia perfoliata
Indian lettuce, Perfoliate claytonia, Claytonia perfoliata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The Botanical Magazine

Red seaweed and sea lettuce
Red seaweed, Membranoptera alata 1, and sea lettuce, Fucus tremella var. lactuca 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Garden lettuce, Lactuca sativa. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Wild lettuce, Lactuca virosa. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Golden Soil: French methods of Market Gardening for England, showing scenes from the Market Garden at Thatcham, Berkshire. Date: 1908

United States Air Force - Fairchild C-119C-22-FA 53-2539 ORIENTAL BEAUTY (msn 10497); of the 817th Troop Carrier Squadron, 403rd Troop Carrier Group, 483rd Troop Carrier Wing

GLAZED VEAL SALAD
A cool summer dish - glazed veal pie, garnished with a salad of chopped lettuce, cucumber and eggs. Date: 1930s

FRESH SALAD
A fresh salad, including lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onions and raddishes. Date: 1930s

STUFFED TOMATO SALAD
Tomatoes stuffed with cottage cheese, served with watercress, lettuce, etc. Date: 1930s

Street trade - white radish hard lettuce and onions
Woman holding her baskets, selling white radish lettuce, Date: 19th Century

Two rabbits with lettuce on a cutout New Year card
Two rabbits with a lettuce leaf on a cutout New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Two rabbits with lettuce on a cutout Christmas card
Two rabbits with a lettuce leaf on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Chimpanzee eating at a table, watched by smiling and laughing children. Date: circa 1970s

Dunnose Cottage, Luccombe, Isle of Wight
Dunnose Cottage, Luccombe, Shanklin, near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England. Showing the Lettuce Leaf Tea Gardens Date: 1930s

Oyster on a plate on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a lobster with a bowl of boiled eggs and salad. Date: circa 1890s

Radio-controlled tortoise
A woman operates a remote control device for Toddle the tortoise. The aerial picks up a signal and makes the arm holding the lettuce (and Toddle!) swing left or right

Little girl and boy with rabbits on a Christmas card
Little girl and boy with three rabbits on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Chimpanzee drinking milk
Chimpanzee sitting at a table drinking milk from a bottle, helped by a man. Date: circa 1970s

Lobster and boiled eggs on a Christmas card
Lobster, boiled eggs and lettuce on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, White Rabbit, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a white rabbit eating green lettuce leaves. Date: 1921

Two rabbits eating salad
Two rabbits, Humpty and Dumpty, eating salad before Peters dinner party has properly started. Date: 1914

Illustration, Orthosiidae -- Cleophanidae -- Cucullidae etc
Illustration, Orthosiidae -- Cleophanidae -- Cucullidae -- Heliothidae -- Anartidae -- Acontiidae -- Scoliopteryx Libatrix, Calophasia Lunula, Cucullia Verbasci, Cucullia Umbratica

Illustration, Orthosiidae -- Hadenidae -- Luperina Virens, Miselia Oxyacanthae, Dichonia Aprilina, Polia Chi, Dianthoecia Albimacula, Dianthoecia Compta, Mamestra Dysodea, Mamestra Dentina

Perennial lettuce, Lactuca perennis.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

Three women with a dog and tortoises in a garden
Three women with a dog in a garden. Two tortoises are eating lettuce leaves at their feet. Date: circa 1920s

Les Halles Market, Paris
The salad and vegetable market stalls at Les Halles Market, Paris, France Date: 1906

Lettuce - Advertorial postcard for Dutch Hero Company
Advertorial postcard for the Dutch Hero Company, featuring a green lettuce. Date: circa 1930s

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