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Pickled onion advertisementA showcard for pickled onions, showing an humanised housewife onion posing by a jar
Nigeria - A Yoruba Grocer Date: circa 1920s
Bermuda - Humorous Greetings Postcard - OnionBlessed is the man who comes to Bermuda (The modern paradise) And is tempted to eat a sweet onion instead of a forbidden apple
Cats enjoying a dinner party on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Alfred Onions, Welsh Labour MPAlfred Onions (1858-1921), Welsh Labour MP for Caerphilly and Treasurer of the South Wales Miners Federation
Woman and vegetable stall, East End of LondonWoman selling vegetables from a stall in a market in Londons East End. The prices are in old currency, with D for penny. Date: circa 1950s
Onion seller on the Embankment, London Date: early 1900s
Cartoon, Mr Pig the Onion Seller
When Eve Delved and Adam span, who then was the gentleman?'Scenic outdoor photographs of woman gardening. With captions, Trained Muscles Make Nothing of a Heavy Roller
Comic birthday postcard, Little child with food and drink Date: 20th century
Onions, Allium cepa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557
Miners and Masters: Coal-dispute Protagonists - representatives from both sides, both capital and labour. Included are: Enoch Edwards MP, Mr D A Thomas, Mr Thomas Ashton, Mr Frde Hall MP
Breton onion seller in a Bristol street. Date: circa 1960s
Breton onion seller with straw base for onionsBreton onion seller making the straw base on which the onions are fastened. Date: circa 1960s
Breton onion seller stringing onions in his storehouse in Bristol. Date: circa 1960s
An Onion Field - Bermudacirca 1910s
Forager the puppy sniffs at the Irish stewCaught at last -- Forager the puppy sniffs at the Irish stew, onions and potatoes on a plate. Date: 1912
BAKED ONIONS & TOMATOES BAKED ONIONS & TOMATOESBaked onions and baked tomatoes, served with cheese and peas, with the option of gravy. Date: 1940s
FRESH SALADA fresh salad, including lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onions and raddishes. Date: 1930s
ONIONS BY THE ROPE ! Date: 1887
Street trade - white radish hard lettuce and onionsWoman holding her baskets, selling white radish lettuce, Date: 19th Century
Crosse and Blackwells Mixed Pickles advertisementAdvertisement for Crosse and Blackwells Mixed vegetable pickles, perfect with joints or mince. 1930
PAUDISS, Cristopher (1630-1666). Still Life. 1660. Baroque art. Oil. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum
Kuwait - Fruit Seller Date: circa 1910s
A Japanese vegetable seller and GeishaA Japanese vegetable seller, his wares in many baskets hung on a long yolk, sells to a young geisha woman
Gustave CharpentierGUSTAVE CHARPENTIER French composer at the window of his garret Date: 1860 - 1956
Father Christmas apparition on a Christmas cardFather Christmas awful apparition on a Christmas card -- he appears to be terrorising three edible birds with strings of sausages and onions. Date: circa 1890s
French Theatre -- La Condamnacion de BancquetLa Condamnacion de Bancquet, a morality play against gluttony attributed to Nicolas (or Nicole) de la Chesnaye. Showing a plump man with a flask of red wine, a chicken on a spit
Alldays & Onions Vintage Car, Teignmouth, EnglandAlldays & Onions Vintage Car, Teignmouth, Devon, England. Date: 1900s
Vintage red onion seed packetA red onion seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910
The Onions, WW1 entertainment troupeThe Onions, a concert party entertaining troops on the Western Front during the First World War, so-called because they said they were always
Onion-whittling by Heath RobinsonMore underhand ideas from the Germans to defeat their British foe imagined by William Heath Robinson cartoon. The Germans utilise biological weapons; row of onions
The great Sylt raid by G. H. DavisThe great Sylt raid: a bomber attacks in the glare of searchlights, flaming onions and bursting star shells. Attacking Hornum, the seaplane base on the southern end of the German island of Sylt
British night bombers by G. H. DavisBritish night bombers encounter flaming onions, as in the raid on Sylt -- a type of incendiary anti-aircraft shell used in the First World War, reintroduced by the Germans in the Second World War
Taft on the Campaign Trail in Colorado, USA - Giant VegWilliam Howard Taft (18571930), on the Campaign Trail in Colorado, USA - the card is entitled Prosperity due to the funny addition of piles of exaggerated-size vegetables
Bermuda - Packing OnionsPacking onions into wooden crayes ready for international export - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s
Vegetables for SoupA pile of fresh vegetables, including cabbage, cauliflower, onions, celery, etc. ready to be made into a pan of vegetable soup. Date: early 1930s
Women at Army Cookery School, 1939A merry moment during peeling onions with the new Army cooks at an Army cookery school in the south of England in the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939
A crop of vegetables - Western CanadaA fine food crop from Western Canada - including pumpkins, corn, onions, potatoes, squash, sunflower and various other root vegetables. Date: circa 1907
A profitable crop of Onions grown in Canada! I think a certain amount of photo trickery has been employed here.... 1910
A fair knock-outA middle aged couple sitting indoors eating pickled onions and drinking stout beer, when the man reads in the newspaper that the First World War has ended " blime, lizer, the Wars over"
She made them some brothThere was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She made them some broth -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman in her kitchen
Man in vegetable gardenA man working in a vegetable garden with rows of large onions. circa 1940s
Ajaccio - Corsica, FranceA street stall selling vegetables on a corner of Napoleon Way ( Cours Napoleon ) at Ajaccio - Corsica, France Date: circa 1910s
Allium Cepa (Onion) Ailsa Craig of the Alliaceae family, a giant show vegetable with a mild flavour. Seen here in close-up, with golden, straw-coloured skin
Poster advertising Edwards desiccated soups, full of nourishing vegetables
Lear / Nonsense / KilkennyThere was an Old Man of Kilkenny, who never had more than a penny; He spent all that money, in onions and honey, that wayward Old Man of Kilkenny
Fruit and Veg StallA rather serious transaction taking place on the fruit and vegetable stall at Knaresborough Market, Yorkshire, England, where 6d buys 3lbs of onions!