Agricultural Collection (#15)

Estonia - Agricultural Scene Date: circa 1910s

Carrying grapes - Portugal. A line of men with large heavy baskets of grapes leave the vineyard. The baskets are supported with thick leater head straps

Trainee milkmaids, Womens Land Army, 1939
Trainee milkmaids working at Plumpton Agricultural College as recruits to the Womenss Land Army, some of whom previously worked in London stores. Date: 1939

Silhouette of ploughing scene
Silhouette of a ploughing scene, with a man guiding his manual plough across a field with the help of two farm horses

Silhouette, One Sows and Another Reaps
One Sows and Another Reaps -- silhouette showing a farm worker sowing seeds in a field, with horses pulling a plough in the background

Advertisement for Agricultural Shows via LNER
Silhouette advertisement for Agricultural Shows via LNER (London & North Eastern Railway), showing a man holding a rearing horse by its harness, with a marquee in the background. 1929

Woman of the Italian Lakes with straw backpack
A woman of the Northern Italian lakes region carrying a large wicker backpack containing what apears to be hay. This traditional mode of transporting such goods is often depicted in the postcards

Silhouette, Straws Show Which Way the Wind Blows
Straws Show Which Way the Wind Blows -- silhouette showing a farm labourer loading straw onto a cart on a windy day

Santa Anita Canal, Mexico, a place used for chinampa-based agriculture. Chinampa is a method of ancient Mesoamerican agriculture which used small

Kingham, Oxfordshire - Breaking up Stubble
Martins Patent Cultivator breaking up the stubble at Kingham, Oxfordshire. These were sold by C. Lainchbury & Son, an engineering firm from Kingham. Date: 1910

Garden at an Allied army camp, Etaples, France, WW1
A well-kept garden at an Allied army camp, Etaples, northern France, during the First World War. Date: August 1918

Reverend Samuel Schor as an eastern scribe
Postcard published by the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews - this is a picture of the Rev. Samuel Schor - dressed as an eastern scribe

Farming in France 18Th
Various agricultural activities in 18th century France. One man is ploughing, two people are sowing, another one is rolling a field. Date: Circa 1760

Canadian troops using Ruston threshing machine, WW1
Canadian troops using a Ruston threshing machine near Amiens, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 16 August 1918

Threshing Wheat - Turkey Date: circa 1900

Queen Elizabeth II and pony
Queen Elizabeth II attending the Royal Agricultural Society show at Newton Abbot in Devon, seen patting one of the winners in the pony class. Date: 1952

Hungary - Budapest - Vajdahunyad Castle
Vajdahunyad Castle, or Vajdahunyad-var, is a castle in City Park, Budapest, Hungary, that was built between 1896 and 1908, designed by Ignac Alpar

Threshing wheat during the First World War -- more wheat was needed because of the U-Boat campaign. 1914-1918

Quaint Gate, Moulton, Northampton - A gate formed of agricultural implements. Date: circa 1940

The Queen inspects prizewinning sheep
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh attended the Royal Agricultural Societys Show at Nottingham. Here, she inspects some Ryeland sheep that have won prizes. Date: 1955

Japanese Farmers - the farmer on the right is holding a large bunch of radishes. They are all wearing traditional agricultural outfits made ot reeds and hemp. Date: circa 1910s

Queen Elizabeth II inspecting a cattle champion, 1957
Inspecting a cattle champion: Queen Elizabeth II stops to speak to a stockman holding one of the splendid beasts in a line of cattle champions in the ring at the Royal Norwich Agricultural Show

Wartime Food Production sticker in car windscreen, Churt
A wartime Food Production sticker of the County War Agricultural Committee in the windscreen of a car which drives the Committee to Lloyd Georges farm at Churt, Surrey. Date: circa 1930s

Outline of a farm building, aerial photograph during WW1
Outline of a square farm building, in an aerial photograph taken during the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1918

Orbis Pictus, Farming
Two pages from the 17th century publication Orbis Pictus on husbandry, with a selection of agricultural scenes. Date: 1658

Chile - Concepcion - Agricultural School - Principal Street Date: circa 1910s

Chile - Agricultural Labourers Camp
The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910

Canada - Womens Residence, Macdonald College
Canada - The Womens Residence at Macdonald College - established in 1905 and opened in 1907 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, in the West Island region of the Island of Montreal

French Agricultural Fair
An agricultural fair in Brittany, France. Date: 1905

Robots as the farm workers of the future
Robots depicted as the farm workers of the future. Date: 1896

Thatching a Roof / 1950S
Thatching a roof at an agricultural show. Date: 1950s

1872 / Farm Worker Meeting
During the period of agricultural unrest, farm labourers meet at the Eleanor Cross in Geddington, Northamptonshire Date: 1872

Mettray : Workshop
METTRAY (near Tours) Open agricultural and industrial colony for juvenile offenders, 1839-1939 : BOYS IN A WORKSHOP LEARN USEFUL TRADES Date: circa 1850

Mettray : Horticulture
METTRAY (near Tours) Open agricultural and industrial colony for juvenile offenders, 1839-1939 : BOYS LEARNING HORTICULTURE Date: circa 1850

Puss in Boots talks to reapers mowing a meadow, persuading them to tell the King that the meadow belongs to his Master. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

Band and parade at Mettray Colony, France
A band and parade of inmates at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France. In the 1840s, the colony pioneered the cottage homes system where boys lived in small

Hammocks in dormitory, Mettray Colony, France
View of a dormitory at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France, with a few boys asleep in their hammocks

General view of Mettray Colony, France
General view of the church and houses at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France. In the 1840s

Boys breaking stones in quarry, Mettray Colony, France
Boys at work breaking stones in a quarry at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France. In the 1840s

Double page spread in a diary for 14-19 February
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 14-19 February. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Agricultural show, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Scene at the agricultural show at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. A crowd of people standing in a large circle in a field are watching a display

Woman harvesting in a field of corn
A woman harvesting in a field of corn. She is wearing old-fashioned country clothes, including a Victorian-style bonnet

Scene outside city wall in Kashgar, western China
Workers in a field outside a city wall in Kashgar, western China

Central France - Soup of the Day
Central France - A farming family tuck into the Soup of the Day

Champion South Devon Bull at the Royal Cornwall Show
A champion South Devon Bull and its minder at the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall

Champion hen at the Royal Cornwall Show
A man with his champion hen at the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall

Shire Horse Parade at the Royal Cornwall Show
A man with two horses at the Shire Horse Parade at the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show, which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall

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