Crop Collection (page 8)

Anthracothorax sp. mango
Plate 43 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Capsicum sp. caffree chilli
Plate 44 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Areca catechu, betel nut
Plate 46 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held iat the Natural History Museum, London

Capsicum minimum, chillies
Plate 59 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Solanum melongena, eggplant and Capsicum sp. chilli
Plate 54 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Cinnamomun verum, cinnamon
Plate 60 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Annona cheremoya, custard apple
Plate 62 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

Saccharum officinarum, sugarcane
Plate 635 from the Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Zea mays, corn

Zea mays L. corn
From Blancos Flora de Filipinas. A botanical illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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

Ready for Rehearsal by W. S. Hutton
A confident young actress in a sleeveless blouse and shorts smokes a cigarette whie waiting to perform in a rehearsal. Date: 1927

Sporting Gal and her horse - Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds A smiling, jolly Sporting Gal and her fine horse (and doesn t he just know it...). Date: circa 1910

Migrant agricultural workers family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers camp, Nipomo, California

Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can t seem to accomplish nothin there

Avoiding the Crush by Reginald Higgins
A man smoking a pipe and a young woman with a fashionable eton crop, studiously ignore each other and sit as far apart as possible on a row of deckchairs at a smart seaside resort

Shetland Pony and St Bernard Dog
Faithful Companions Portrait painting of a Shetland Pony and a St Bernard Dog (holding a riding crop in his mouth). Date: circa 1910s

A young lady with her fine grey horse - all ready to pop out for a canter before returning for afternoon tea... Date: 1910s

Lord George Sanger with his ponies
Lord George Sanger (1827-1911) was an English showman and circus proprietor who ran shows and circuses throughout much of the 19th century and early 20th with his brother John

Tunis, Tunisia - A Local Barber Date: circa 1903

A crop of vegetables - Western Canada
A fine food crop from Western Canada - including pumpkins, corn, onions, potatoes, squash, sunflower and various other root vegetables. Date: circa 1907

Silhouette of a woman in riding gear
Full-length silhouette of a woman in stylish riding gear, with a crop tucked under her arm

Silhouette of a racehorse and jockey

Silhouette of three horse riders and a dog
Silhouette design of three horse riders and a dog, possibly out hunting

A profitable crop of Onions grown in Canada! I think a certain amount of photo trickery has been employed here.... 1910

Silhouette of schoolboy on hobby horse
Silhouette of a schoolboy riding a hobby horse

Farming 1925
Thinning sugar beets, Isle of Ven, Sweden 1925 Date: 1925

Barley Crop
A crop of barley. Date: 1971

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

Five children picking blackberries. 1880

Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910

Japanese Farmers - the farmer on the right is holding a large bunch of radishes. They are all wearing traditional agricultural outfits made ot reeds and hemp. Date: circa 1910s

Rail car transporting giant Bellflower apples Date: 1910

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

Californian farmer with an immense watermelon Date: circa 1910

Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910

Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant tomatoes Date: 1910

Who wears the Trousers?
With you... Who wears the Trousers? Date: 1902

Harvesting (Lhermitte)
Men and women at work in the harvest field, taking advantage of fine weather to gather the crop into stooks with wide wooden rakes. Date: 1889

Shooting Apple Trees
In Devonshire, on Twelfth Eve, countryfolk go into the orchards and shoot at one of the best trees, to ensure a good fruit crop : much cider is drunk on this occasion... Date: 1851

1927 by Lewis Baumer
A quintessentially twenties young woman with an Eton crop, a short skirt and a cigarette holder, posed nonchalantly by a stylised picture of Adam and Eve hanging on the wall

Britannia and Eve magazine, April 1937
Front cover illustration featuring a masculine-looking woman, wearing a shirt and tie, and looking disdainfully over her shoulder

Workers harvesting banana crop, Jamaica
Workers harvesting the banana crop in Jamaica

The Modern Girl by Reginald E. Higgins
Sub-titled, Silk and shingle, the artist Reginald Higgins draws his favourite subject, the shorn and shingled modern 1920s girl

Sangers Circus lion tamer, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A lion tamer with Sangers Circus poses in costume by a wall, with his foot on a large stone, during a visit to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Man and woman of the Black Forest
A man and woman of the Black Forest preparing for the harvest. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

A Sudan Cotton Field
Empire Marketing Board poster showing indigeonous workers picking cotton in a field in the Sudan, while their village can be seen some way in the background

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