Beans Collection

Carrying sacks of Coffee, santos, Brazil
Carrying sacks of Coffee to be put on a ship at Santos, Brazil, South America. The total weight of the sacks is 302 kg!

Comic postcard, Vegetable love, The Allotment Love Letter Date: 20th century

WW2 Birthday Card, Digging For Victory
A WW2 birthday greetings card, Hoping you're full of beans and digging for victory! The image shows a man carrying his fork and rake towards the allotment of good wishes. Date: circa 1940s

Averys Services Limited Advertisement
An advertisement page promoting Averys Services Limited, specialists in blockmaking, typesetting, foundry work, photography, commercial art and catalogue illustrating

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Plant Soya Beans! Date: circa mid-1970s

Japan - Parched Soybeans Store
Japan - A mother carrying her baby on her back stands in front of a store selling Japanese traditional Parched Soybeans. Date: circa 1920s

Comic postcard, Baked beans for dinner again Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, Turnip, beans and rhubarb Date: 20th century

Drying coffee beans, Brazil, c. 1880 s
Drying coffee beans, Brazil, c.1880 s

Comic postcard, family wearing gas masks, WW2 - beans for dinner! Date: circa 1940s

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

Coffee plant, Coffea arabica, with flowers, beans and seeds. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edouard Winklers Getreue Abbildung aller in der Pharmacopoea (True Pictures of Pharmacopeia)

Varieties of peas and beans, gousses et graines legumieres. Pisum sativum and Phaseolus vulgaris. Handcoloured steel engraving by Corbie after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre

Mapuche playing the games of llighetun and kechukawe
Indigenous Mapuche of Chile playing the game of llighetun with beans (porotos) and a ring, and kechukawe (queciucague) with a five-sided dice

Coffee plant
Coffee tree, (Coffea Arabica), was originally indigenous in Arabica and countries bordering on the red Sea

Marzipan Fruits and Veg Date: 1935

Dish of String Beans Date: 1950

Ripe Green Beans

DRESSED VEGETABLES
Stuffed tomatoes - Vegetable Marrow a la creme - Spinach - Potato Croquettes - Haricot Beans - Tossed Mushrooms - Wafer Potatoes - New Carrots and White Sauce. Bon appetit! Date: circa 1900

Cacao (Cocoa) harvesting in Equador. Date: circa 1930s

Coffee plantation at the Aby Lagoon, Ivory Coast
Buildings of a coffee plantation at the Aby Lagoon in the south-east of Ivory Coast (then French West Africa). Date: circa 1910

Maison Sargos at a cacao and coffee plantation, Congo
Maison Sargos at a cacao and coffee plantation in the Kouilou Department in south of the Republic of the Congo (then French Equatorial Africa) at the west coast of Africa. Date: circa 1910

WW2 - Shortage of Potatoes in Britain during the War
Sorry No Potatoes - a British housewife has limited choice for her vegetable purchasing, as potato stocks dry up due to tight rationing control over supply - December, 1941. Date: 1941

Samoan Girl - Fiji
Beautiful photographic portrait of a Samoan Girl - Fiji - note the coral and bean beads. Date: circa 1910s

Soho, London - 52 Old Compton Street W1 - display in The Algerian Coffee Stores shop window. 1973

Fairies of the Garden - The Scarlet Runner. 1903

Prpparing Cocoa
Extracting cocoa beans on an Indian (?) plantation. Date: 1908

Advert / Bile Beans 1906
Do you suffer from Indigestion and liver troubles? Take BILE BEANS for BILIOUSNESS - Every Bean a Boon! Date: 1906

Morocco - Casablanca - Vegetable seller - Petit Sokko. He is having a brief break with a well-deserved cup of tea! A rather portly European visitor is taking in the sights

Advert for Sniders Pork and Beans Date: 1914

Advert for Sniders Pork and Beans and Catsup Date: 1914

Coffee ranch in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The inset image shows a native worker shelling the beans. Date: circa 1895

Toddler helping out in the kitchen
A toddler helping out in the kitchen with the pots and pans. Date: circa 1960s

Tea and coffee flower fairies sharing beverages.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Greetings card from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, showing an equestrian statue of George Washington and a view of the Public Garden. Date: 1895

Gallipoli Coffee Machine (Grinder)
A Gallipoli Coffee Machine (Grinder) with crank and section for coffee beans. Trench Art

Women sorting coffee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Green Beans - Advertorial postcard for Dutch Hero Company
Advertorial postcard for the Dutch Hero Company, featuring some green beans. Date: circa 1930s

Drying coffee beans in the sun - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Runner Beans 19C
Runner bean. Date: 19th century

Cyprus poster
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Cyprus camel train carrying trade goods Date: 1927-1933

Mamemaki: expelling demons with beans. Print shows family members eating beans in a room and a man, with a box of beans, appears about to toss a handful into the room; scene taking place during

O Fuko throwing beans for good luck and to drive the girls away on New Years Eve. Print shows a large Japanese woman tossing beans to soldiers who are caricatured as ogres with horns, fangs

Italian day laborer with basket of beans she has just picked. Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, New Jersey. Date 1941 May

Seven types of beans for seated meditation. Print shows a large serving spoon with a dish, possibly containing tofu, and a bean cake(?) in a baking dish. Date between 1804 and 1807

Camping Beans

Sack of Coffee Beans
A sack of coffee beans. Date: 1980

Returning medicine bottle at the Grocers Shop
An elderly gentleman Mr W. Hitchman delivers his bottle of medicine for collection and replacement at his local Grocers Shop

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