Cabbages Collection

Babies in a cabbage patch. Date: circa 1900s

Leningrad Cabbages
Picking cabbages from the vegetable patches in front of St Isaacs Cathedral

Girl in Kitchen Garden
Girl working in a rural kitchen garden collecting cabbages

Still Life Fish and Vegetables
A still life oil painting with the subject of food, consisting of some fish laid flat, in front of a large assortment of cabbages and fruit. Date: circa 1919

Camouflaging the Colonel's Breakfast
Under elaborate cover the regimental cooks get to work, invisible from the air by a table of cabbages. Date: 1941

Comic postcard, gardener complaining Date: 20th century

WW2 - English schoolboys buy vegetables from school garden
WW2 - English schoolboys buying vegetables from the school garden. Date: circa 1941

Two hares in a field of cabbages, undeterred by a rather meagre-looking scarecrow. Date: 1906

WAKEFIELD FRUIT WOMAN
The Wakefield fruit woman and her blind daughter sell a variety of fruit and vegetables from their stall; unusually the daughter has short hair Date: 19th century

Droxford Union Workhouse, Hampshire
A view of the Union Workhouse at Droxford, Hampshire. Some inmates can be seen at the front of the building. Cabbages are growing in the ground at the bottom of the picture

Baby-Farming
The baby-farmer waters his cabbage field. Date: 1906

Royal WW1 allotment visit, 1918: Queen Mary and piglet
King George V(1865-1936)and Queen Mary(1867-1953) inspecting small allotments in south London, 1918. Queen Mary looks delighted to be presented with a piglet from a wicker basket. Date: 1918

Cheery Families - Mrs Trim the Tailors Wife. 1890s

Humanised cabbage on a Christmas card, taking a bow, by Herman Rothe. Date: circa 1880s

Cartoon, A false rumour, WW1
Cartoon, A false rumour from the Western Front. Four market women talk about cannibalism among the troops. Date: 1916

Vegetable seller (cabbages)
Cabbages O! Turnips!. Street vegetable seller. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Taft on the Campaign Trail in Colorado, USA - Giant Veg
William Howard Taft (18571930), on the Campaign Trail in Colorado, USA - the card is entitled Prosperity due to the funny addition of piles of exaggerated-size vegetables

A wagon laden with remarkable giant cabbages
Giant Cabbages - freshly picked..... Possibly a bit of creative photography, although you never know....! Date: 1910

Port Arthur - Varieties of Chinese Vegetables
Japanese card depicting three varieties of Chinese cabbage and other vegetables (possibly beetroot) - at Port Arthur. A panoramic view of Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian)

Little fat goblin stealing cabbages
A little fat goblin stealing cabbages, much to the distress of the farmer. first published 1879

Giant Cabbages
A bumper crop of giant cabbages, long before the days of genetic modification. Date: early 1930s

Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910

Cabbages, Essex
Transplanting cabbages, Essex Date: 1956

Cutting Cabbages / Allingh
A woman cutting cabbages in her cottage kitchen garden

English Veg Garden C1900
A woman cutting cabbages in her cottage kitchen garden

Occupation / Costermonger
London barrow boy in breeches, stockings, waistcoat, short jacket, red muffler & peaked cap, shouts his wares of carrots & cabbages drawn by a donkey cart

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