Agriculture Collection (page 5)

Saami indigenous family with reindeer probably Norway
Vintage 19th century photograph: Saami indigenous family with their reindeer outside their home, probably Norway. Historically known as Lapps or Lapplanders

Huge logging train of oxen in jungle, Burma India c. 1910
Huge logging train of oxen in the jungle, Burma India c.1910

Harvesting the rice crop in Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Man & woman in sledge drawn by bullocks / oxen, Madeira island
Man and woman in a sledge drawn by a pair of bullocks / oxen, Madeira island, Portugal

The Royal South Bucks ploughing match and agricultural show at Cippenham, 1913. 1. Canadas travelling motor show van exhibiting; 2. General view of the ploughing on Gregorys Farm; 3

Mergamma pesticide advert, 1954
Protect good seed with Mergamma A. Advert for Mergamma double-action seed dressing, a pesticide killing wireworm and disease, from Plant Protection Ltd

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

Great Achievements of the National Government
Diagram by G. H. Davis representing the progress made by the coalition government between August 1931 and April 1934. Illustrations on employment, trade, finance, housing, mining, fishing

Cartoon, Land and Labour (Agricultural Union)
Cartoon, Land and Labour; or, How to Settle It. A comment on the current unrest over working conditions in agricultural districts

Cartoon, Dressing for a Masquerade, Mr Disraeli as a Great Protectionist Leader. Disraeli had tried to help farmers by supporting the relief of agricultural distress in Parliament

Cartoon, Noble Poulterers; or, Licensed to Sell Game -- a Peer of the Realm, making money out of the game caught on his estate, mostly fed at the expense of his tenant farmers. Date: 1845

Cartoon, Agriculture -- The Real Unprotected Female -- a satirical comment on the Free Trade policy, which was benefiting the country, but in which the agricultural districts had not yet taken part

Woman with pitchfork stroking a horse in front of a haycart. circa 1930s

People haymaking. circa 1930s

Advertisement for Stones Ginger Wine. Date: 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Sri Lanka
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Ceylon Sri Lanka. 1893

Womens Land Army volunteers in training, September 1939
Volunteers for the Womens Land Army learning basic agricultural skills, courtesy of the East Sussex Agricultural College. The Sphere comments on the health benefits of country life. 1939

Woman gardener on her motor-cycle 1916
Woman jobbing gardener on her motor-cycle with her tools. During the war many women entered the agricultural industry, becoming manual labourors to replace men as they went off to fight. 1916

Female land army workers resting after a full day 1918
Women in Theydon, Essex, resting, socialising and reading in their club room after a days training for land army work. The Womens Land Army was established in 1917 to replace male workers in

Women farm workers loading a cart, May 1918
Two female farm workers as they load a cart with " roots for cattle", possibly swedes. The Sphere gives an extremely complimentary report of female work on farms describing how " there

Soya beans - a hint for hungry Europe 1921
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the possibilities of the soya bean as the solution to the cost of living in Europe

August, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Aerial view of Red Lion Square, Holborn, London, in about 1730, with fields visible in the near distance. The villages of Hampstead, Highgate and Islington can be seen on the horizon. Date: 1730

King Alfred, Angles, Saxons and Norsemen
King Alfred the Great, Angles, Saxons and Norsemen, agriculture, ships and churches. (3 of 4) 9th century

Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Ictidomys tridecemlineatus (Striped gopher, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus). Chromolithograph by Trautmann, Bailey and Blampey after an illustration by Ernest E

Sophie plum, Prunus domestica. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by William H. Prestele from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Mercer cherry, Prunus avium. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by William H. Prestele from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Cherry varieties, Bing and Napoleon, Prunus avium. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by William H. Prestele from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Royal Church raspberry, Rubus idaeus. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by William H. Prestele from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Webcap mushroom, Cortinarius turmalis. Chromolithograph by Trautmann, Bailey and Blainpey from the Report of the Microscopist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Turpentine orcharding in France. Worker on a ladder tapping the sap of a turpentine tree, Pistacia terebinthus. Lithograph from the Report of the Division of Forestry, US Department of Agriculture

Japanese persimmon variety, Costata, Diospyros kaki. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by D.G. Passmore from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Hannibal raspberry, Rubus idaeus. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by William H. Prestele from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Primus blackberry, Rubus ursinus x Rubus crataegifolius hybrid. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by William H

Eldorado blackberry, Rubus fruticosus. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by D.G. Passmore from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Buffalo berry, Shepherdia argentia. Chromolithograph by Hoen after a botanical illustration by D.G. Passmore from the Report of the Pomologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Red or plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius. Chromolithograph by Trautmann, Bailey and Blampey after an illustration by Ernest E

Gray or northern pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides. Chromolithograph by Trautmann, Bailey and Blampey after an illustration by Ernest E

Richardsons ground squirrel, Urocitellus richardsonii (Richardsons spermophile, Spermophilus richardsonii). Chromolithograph by Trautmann, Bailey and Blampey after an illustration by Ernest E

Caesars mushroom, Amanita caesarea. Chromolithograph from the Report of the Microscopist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892

Chinese agriculture. Peasants planting a field with a seeding machine (a hopper with two pipes leading to pronged feet), man irrigating a field on a water pump

A water buffalo dragging a harrow
Chinese agriculture. A water buffalo dragging a harrow followed by a barefoot peasant. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Egyptian wheat and grape agriculture
Egyptian agriculture: priest of Osiris with sceptre 1, following a man with plow behind two yoked oxen 2, man sowing seed 3 from a box 4, men harvesting wheat with a scythe 5, 6

The Emperor of China in a spring ritual called
The Emperor of China with plough and oxen in a spring ritual called the Feast of Agriculture. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Farmhand using traditional binder at harvest time, Cornwall
Farmhand using a traditional binder in a cornfield at harvest time, Cornwall. Date: 1979

Combine harvester at work in a field, Cornwall, with a group of children on the left. Date: 1965

Man operating a combine harvester, Cornwall. Date: 1965

Men using a reaping machine at harvest time, Cornwall. Date: 1970s

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