Agriculture Collection (page 7)

Close-up of a scientist examining and testing a locust at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

Scientist examining and testing a locust at the Anti-Locust Research Centre (ALRC), an independent research institute set up by the UK government in 1945

The Albert Memorial, designed by George Gilbert Scott, showing the sculptures The Continents: Europe (near left) and The Useful Arts: Agriculture (far right). Date: Built 1864 - 1876

An elderly Dutch woman wearing a headscarf, long dark dress and clogs, carrying a large bundle of hay on her back Date: 1930s

On the Mississippi, Loading Cotton Date: 1860

Farmer Rolling Sleeves Date: 1920

Working Vineyard Date: 1878

Farmer Irrigates Land Date: 1948

Tractor Above a Road Date: 1950

Horticulturist Burbank Date: 1950

Farmer Watches Reaping Date: 1950

Chinese peasants 1837
Chinese pursuit of agriculture was esteemed as a very honourable occupation, indeed second only to the pursuit of learning. The bulk of the population of the country was engaged in this pursuit

Vintage in Medoc: Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte 1871
Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte, France. Date: 1871

Royal Agricultural Societys show at Oxford 1870
The annual gathering at the Royal Agricultural Society of England was opened at Oxford on July 11th 1870, starting in 1838. Date: 11 July 1870

HOPKINS / SEASONS / SPRING
SPRING - 1 OF 4 Ploughing the field with three shire horses. Date: 1882

Medieval two-wheeled plough
Plowing with oxen. Date: 13th century

FARMER SOWING CORN 1887
A farmer sowing corn by hand. Date: 1887

ROMAN CELEBRATION / VIRGIL
Dancing in honour of CERES (Demeter), the goddess of agriculture. On Ceres let him call & Ceres praise, With uncouth dances & with country lays. Date: First published: 29 BC

Cartoon, Opening the Gate; or, Coming events cast their shadows before. A comment on monopoly versus free trade. Date: 1845

Cartoon, The Premiers Fix - Free Trade and Agriculture. Date: 1845

A fantasy farm labourer, dressed in a costume made up of the tools of his trade. Date: circa 1700

Assam tea industry in India
India - Various aspects of tea cultivation in the state of Assam. Date: circa 1870

Druse women of the Lebanon grinding corn Date: 1822

Sheep Shearing in Australia
In an Australian sheep shearing shed Date: 1910

Tobacco harvest in Algeria
Algeria : tobacco harvest Date: 1862

Elderly man (sundowner), Adelaide, South Australia
Elderly man (an itinerant worker, swagman or sundowner), Adelaide, South Australia. Date: 1900s

Haymaking in the Auvergne, France. Date: circa 1910s

Myvatn Lake, Iceland with Sellandafjall mountain behind
An old farm implement on the banks of Myvatn Lake, Iceland. Snow covered Sellandafjall mountain is in the background Date: 1986

Two farmers enter store cattle shed - Bakewell Cattle Market
Two old farmers enter the store cattle shed at Bakewell Cattle Market, Derbyshire, England. Date: 1994

Kashmir - two male rice planters in foothills of Himalayas smile happily as they plant rice shoots Date: 1986

Orange and olive trees in early spring, Andalucia, Spain Date: 2007

Farmers pull faces at sheep sale, SW Scotland
Farmers pull their faces as they watch a sheep sale at Castle Douglas cattle market, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland Date: 1999

Bakewell, Derbyshire Cattle Market - 6
Bakewell, Derbyshire Cattle Market. A farmer herds sheep off the scales before an auction Date: 1994

Barefoot boy with mattock, Sierra Leone
A barefoot West African farm boy pauses from working on a smallholding outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. He wears a crucifix on his forehead and carries a heavy digging mattock Date: circa 1982

A man carries plough, Taj Mahal, India
A farm worker carries a heavy wooden plough on cultivated farmland on the opposite bank of the River Jumna to the Taj Mahal, Agra, India Date: 1986

Ploughing with oxen, Taj Mahal, India
A young boy ploughman guides two white oxen to plough a field on the far banks of the Taj Mahal. The Taj can be seen in the background Date: 1986

Woman and Taj Mahal, India
A woman stands with a basketful of cow dung manure on her head. Behind her is the Taj Mahal seen from the far bank of the River Jumna. The dung is used for making house bricks Date: 1986

Farmers and sheep, Keilder
Two farmers tend their sheep in pens above Keilder Water, Northumberland, England Date: 1990

Wagoner, Shropshire, silhouette - 1
Silhouette of wagoner leading his horse and cart at the Acton Scott Farm Museum, Shropshire. First published The Idependent Date: 1987

Java, Indonesia - Ploughing with a team of oxen. Date: circa 1930s

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Villagers preparing arable land for planting, accompanied by the sound of drums. Date: circa 1910s

Australia - Farming in New South Wales Date: circa 1910

Farmer with horse and cart in a field. Date: circa 1960s

Farm tools. Wooden spade and wodden potato hoe. The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

Roman Art. Spain. Agricultural tools. Archeological Museum. Seville. Andalusia

Greek Art. Greece. Iron tools. Olympia
Greek Art. Greece. Iron tools of everyday use from the sanctuary of Olympia. Archaeological Museum of Olympia

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late XIV century. Picking sour cherries
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Picking sour cherries

Harvesting wheat in a field, c. 1800
Men and women harvesting wheat in a field: cutting with sickles and tying into bundles, c.1800 Date: C.1800

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