Agricultural Collection (page 13)

Cattle - grazing on a flood-meadow along river Lalya in desolated village Karaul. Ural Mountains near Ekaterinburg, Russia; summer. (Land is state owned)

Cock in a village yard, typical colouring. Middle Ural mountains, Russia, summer

Fellah with camel and donkey, Jerusalem
A fellah (Arab peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer) with camel and donkey in a Jerusalem street. Date: 1920s

Dolly Goes Back to the Land, land girl, WW1
An attractive young woman posed with a spade on a farm, part of the female agricultural workforce during the First World War - though her outfit does not suggest shes a member of the Womens Land

Turkmen shepherd on a donkey - accompanied by a shepherd dog. in Karakum desert - Kopetdag mountains on background - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Turkmen Shepherd - on a donkey - with sheep and a dog - in front of Kopetdag mountain range. summer - Turkmenistan - former CIS

Destruction of rainforest: preparation for oil-palm plantation which replaces rainforest in a river-valley, (Elaeis guineensis). Sabah, Borneo; Malaysia; June

Oil palm fruits are piled on a road-side along one of the oil-palm plantations (Elaeis guineensis). Labuk Bay, Sabah, Borneo; Malaysia; June

Womens War Work WW1 Ploughing
Lithograph by A.S Hartrick (Archibald Standish Hartrick 1864-1950) entitled, Womens Work: On the Land Ploughing Two women undertaking agricultural work as they replaced men on active service as part

Pig farmer persuading a pig to move
A little persuasion required. A pig farmer tries to get his pig to move. Date: C.1890

Brixen Thousand Year Festival, Tyrol, Austria, showing farming people at harvest time at the Prichsna Grange in the year 901. Date: 1901

Queen Mary inspects the Womens Land Army, WW1
Queen Mary inspects a detachment of the Womens Land Army which marched through London with the object of attracting recruits in March 1918. Date: 1918

Pears Soap advertisement, land girl, 1918
Advertisement for Pears soap during the First World War, part of their Womanhood in Wartime, series, featuring a member of the Womens Land Army ploughing a field Date: 1918

York Industrial School Band at Copmanthorpe Show
The wind band from Yorks Industrial School for boys perform at an agricultural show at Copmanthorpe, a village to the south-west or York. A marquee and horses can be seen in the background. Date: 1913

Servants Night-time Visiting Ban at Congleton, Cheshire
Following claims, in 1842, that the practice of allowing young men to pay night-time visits to female servants in agricultural areas of the Wrexham Union resulted in many single mothers at

International Horse Show at Olympia, 1907
The exterior of the International Horse Show at Olympia in 1907, as viewed from Kensington train station. Date: 1907

Paris Hippodrome, Olympia, 1887
The Arab horsemen at the Paris Hippodrome, Olympia, 1887. The troupe, part of Hippolyte Houckes company, were intended to demonstrate the customs and manners of the East

Royal visit to the Olympia Horse Show, 1908
Mr. Walter Winans saluting King Edward VII before the royal box at the Olympia horse show in June 1908. Date: 1908

Roman chariot race at Kensington Olympia, 1886
The Paris Hippodrome at Olympia, the National Agricultural Hall, Kensington: the Roman chariot race, by a four abreast driving team(droski fashion). Date: 1886

Royal visit to Kensington Olympia, 1887
The visit of Queen Victoria to Olympia, London: royalty watching a re-enactment of a Roman chariot race from a dais. Date: March 1887

Departure of Irish emigrants
Poverty-stricken Irish folk waiting on the railway platform for a train to take them to the port for embarkation to America or elsewhere

Miss Angel Archdale as a land girl
Miss Angel Archdale, only daughter of Brigadier-General Archdale, C.B. who was busily engaged in farm work in the Cotswolds during the First World War

Soldiers released by the War Office for land 1917
Helping to feed the nation: Convalescents ploughing hospital ground; a farm party. Upper photograph, shows convalescent soldiers at a hospital in one of the home countries

British soldier working on the land, WW1
A British soldier driving a plough during the First World War. Owing to the lateness of the years sowing in 1916, due to bad weather and shortage of labour

Women working land in Cley, Norfolk, WW1
Women sent by the Womens Political Union to a farm at Cley, Norfolk for training in farm work during the First World War. Date: 1916

War work for the elderly, WW1
An old farm labourer in Essex returns to the plough to help in the war effort during the First World War. The gentleman pictured was nearly eighty years of age and had several sons in the Army

Workers threshing grain, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Jat Zemindars, India
Group photo of four Jat Zemindars, India. The Jat people are traditionally a non-elite group who worked on the land. Zemindars are small local landholders. Date: circa 1890s

British soldier and local resident, Western Front, WW1
British soldier relaxing with a local resident and her cattle on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers and local residents, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers relaxing with local residents and their cattle on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldier and French civilian, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier watching a French civilian tending his crops on the Western Front during World War One. The area is shelled by the Germans every day

Harvesting scene with soldiers, Western Front, WW1
A harvesting scene with soldiers on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Scene at harvest time in France, Western Front, WW1
Scene at harvest time in France, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Little girl at harvest time by Muriel Dawson
A little girl helping out in the fields at harvest time, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s

Design for the building of small holdings
The question of the land: small holdings. How a pleasant-looking livable house can be erected on a suitable site for 233. It has a dairy in the south-east corner adjacent to the larder and scullery

Portrait of a farmers boy smoking a pipe

Man harvesting in a field, He Also Serves, WW1
He Also Serves. A man harvesting in a field at the start of the First World War. The verse below says: He serves no less who toils to save / The harvest for his native land. Date: August 1914

Silhouette Calendar -- July, Haymaking. Showing a girl with a doll watching two boys heading off with a pitchfork and a rake. Date: 20th century

Land girls - H L Oakley silhouettes, WW2
Land girls - H L Oakley silhouettes. Date: 1943

Female agricultural workers in Oxfordshire
Women at work on the land in Oxfordshire in July 1916. Women replaced the large numbers of male workers who had left to join the army. Date: 1916

Agricultural Show
The latest tractors and combine harvesters etc. on display at an Agricultural Exhibition, Britain. Date: 1970s

James Allen Ransome
JAMES ALLEN RANSOME engineer, inventor and manufacturer of agricultural machinery with his autograph Date: 1806 - 1875

Fruit Pickers
Three smart young men in waistcoats, scything, hoeing and picking fruit, with an older man supervising them, on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

John Collis Nesbit
JOHN COLLIS NESBIT Chemist, professor of chemistry and principal of Kennington agricultural college. Date: 1818 - 1862

Agricultural Students
Young women students being taught how to harvest, Swanley Agricultural College, Kent, Engalnd. Date: early 1930s

William Lester
WILLIAM LESTER Agricultural engineer, holding ears of corn doubtless harvested with one of the implements he designed. Date: CIRCA 1804

A Coming of Age Cake - Bakers & Confectioners Exhibition
The Coming of Age Cake - a remarkable commemorative three-tiered construction, displayed at the Bakers & Confectioners Exhibition, held at the Agricultural Hall, London in September 1913

Chinese Countrymen - possibly agricultural workers? Date: circa 1920s

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