Agriculture Collection (page 17)

People picking tea, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

War Time in the Country in Silhouette
A page of three silhouettes depicting life in the British countryside during the First World War. The top picture shows a man reading out the newspaper and official news to eager neighbours

Land Girls bringing in the harvest
Women bringing in the harvest at Lord Rayleighs farm at Terling during 1916. Date: 1916

Peace in wartime, rural silhouettes, WW1
Peace in wartime, three silhouettes of the unchanging English countryside, vital for food supplies for a country at war. Depicting idealised views of Morning, Afternoon and Evening activities

Farmyard scene, c. 1860
A farmer feeds his chickens amidst free range cows and pigs in his farmyard. Date: c. 1860

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

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 -- October, Harvest Thanksgiving. Showing a girl and a boy taking part in a Harvest Festival church service. Date: 20th century

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

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, farming
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing people farming -- Within a year, very few were still working on the land. Date: 1940-1945

Harvesting scene with laden cart
Harvesting scene showing a cart laden with hay, and two oasthouses in the background

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

Romanian Shepherds
Two Romanian Shepherds in thick sheepskin jackets and fur hats, lean on their crooks and look throughly chilly!! Date: 1901

Cocoa poster
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Cocoa Date: 1927-1933

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

Banana palms
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Banana Palms Date: 1927-1933

Smoked Sugar Beet plantation at Precy-sur-Oise, France
Organic Smoked Sugar Beet plantation at Precy-sur-Oise, France owned by Monsieur Fauquert. Date: 1929

Russian Countrywoman with pitchfork and red headscarf
Russian Countrywoman with wooden pitchfork and red headscarf. Date: 1903

Mount Fuji, Japan - with a village and agricultural workers labouring in the fields in the foreground. Date: circa 1910s

China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Village Community
China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Rural village Community Date: circa 1910s

China - Chinese Farmer carrying two large bundles of a yolk
China - Chinese Farmer carrying two large bundles of his crop of choice by means of a yolk across his shoulders. Date: circa 1910s

Typical Harvest Scene, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Date: circa 1930s

Vietnam - Hanoi - Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture during the period of French Occupation (note architectural style). Date: circa 1910s

Rotary hand quern for grinding corn - Palestine, Middle East. Date: circa 1920s

Thessaloniki - Vegetable Garden at the Agriculture School
Thessaloniki, Greece - Students at work in the vegetable garden at the Agriculture School. Date: circa 1906

Two English Rural Working Horses - Working Partners
Two English Rural Working Horses pulling a simple form of harrow - Working Partners Date: circa 1920s

Persian Waterwheel on the Indus, Pakistan - irrigation technology. Date: circa 1910s

A Lakeland Shepherd on horseback carrying a sick ewe
A Lakeland Dalesman Shepherd on horseback bringing home a sickly ewe, Cumbria - his trusty dog trots alongside Date: 1913

French Coutryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers / Harvesters
French Countryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers/Harvesters Date: circa 1905

Ploughing with Buffalo - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Swiss agricultrual workers take a break from haymaking and scything and share a swift tipple. Date: circa 1910s

Lemon Plantation - New Athos, Abkhazia, Georgia
Lemon Plantation at New Athos, a town in the Gudauta raion of Abkhazia by the shores of the Black Sea, Georgia. The town was previously known under the names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia

Two Rural Russian Country Girls pose with a sheaf of corn
Two Rural Russian Country Girls outside the entrance to a large barn, pose with a Sheaf of corn. Date: circa 1905

Sheafs of oats after harvest
Sheafs of oats (wheat stouks) after harvest. Date: circa 1920s

Women Ploughing - Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Making Hay whilst the sun shines in Switzerland Date: circa 1904

St. Louis Worlds Fair, St. Louis - Palace of Agriculture
St. Louis Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Palace of Agriculture. Cost of construction - $550, 000 Date: 1904

Woman descending a mountain path - Switzerland
Woman descending amountain path with a large bundle of hay balanced on her head. Date: circa 1910s

Stouks near Uderns - Schwaz district of Tyrol, Austria
Stouks in the fields near Uderns, a municipality in the Schwaz district of Tyrol, Austria. Date: circa 1947

Strawberry Farm - British Columbia - Canada Date: circa 1910s

Kortrijk - sheafs of corn
Stooks in a field - sheafs of grain at Kortrijk, Belgium Date: circa 1910s

Bali, Indonesia - Pura Beji Temple at Sangsit
Sangsit is the site of Pura Beji, a pink sandstone temple dedicated to Dewi Sri (the Hindu goddess of agriculture). The temple is features carvings of demons, divinities, and mythical animals

Indigenous Native Mexicans carrying Sugar Cane Date: circa 1907

Cochineal Plantation, Tenerife
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Sus scrofa, wild boar
Plate 1 from The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Vol. 2, 1842, by David Low (1786-1859). Entitled Wild Boar and Sow

Lama glama, llama
Llama. Llama Glama, July 23 1884. Hand coloured lithograph of a drawing by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins from Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall; Hoofed Quadrupeds, 1850

Coconut palms, Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Plantation. Ovalau Island, Fiji
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

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