Crop Collection (page 9)

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

Tobacco Fields, Cuba

Vallauris, France - Harvest of Orange Blossom
Vallauris, France - the harvesting of Orange Blossom

Harvesting of Tunisian dates
The harvesting of Tunisian dates near Tunis for Champagne Freres distributed by F. Vinatie of Bordeaux and Marseille. W Dennis of London

Troop Sergeant Major - 9th Lancers
A Troop Sergeant Major of the 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers. The Badge on his lower right arm denotes his position as the best shot in the squadron. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Squadron Sergeant Major - 5th Royal Irish Lancers (circa 1890). Medal ribbons worn: Egypt Medal (1882-89) and Khedives Star (1882-91)

Squadron Sergeant Major - 17th Lancers
A Squadron Sergeant Major of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridges Own) - a Senior Scout. The medals he is wearing are The Distinguished Conduct medal

Grading Walnuts - California, USA
Grading Walnuts with a grading machine - California, USA

A Laugh between friends - Iran
3 Friends sharing a joke at Bushehr (Bushire), Iran

Lady in riding attire
Lady in finely cut riding garb, holding a short whip

Two girls of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
Two girls pose for their photograph, one of them standing behind the other on a chair. They are both wearing little hats, and one holds a stick like a riding crop

Wig Maker- Biskra, Algeria
A smart Wig Maker in Biskra, Southern Algeria, gives his seated client a close crop in order to harvest some locks for his latest creation

Moorish Barber - Algeria
A Moorish Barber in Algeria giving his client a rather severe short back and sides in the street outside his house

Algeria - Date Market
A Date Market in the South of Algeria

Niagara Peninsula - Peaches for export
Canada - province of Ontario - The Niagara Peninsula - a microclimate, where a wide variety of fruit and vegetables (which could not be grown in any other area of Canada) are grown

Horsewoman in a misty landscape
A smartly dressed horsewoman riding sidesaddle poses for her photograph in a misty landscape

Flax growing in Northern Ireland
Farming and gathering flax in Northern Ireland

Colonel Ralph Ponsonby Watts (1892 - 1991) at Bushehr (Bushire), Iran. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Gambia - An Oil palm fruiting head

Cutting the Corn
A young boy stands in a field watching a horse-drawn harvesting machine cutting the corn

Samsun - Camels transporting tobacco
Camel train transporting tobacco from Bafra to Samsun, Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital of Samsun Province and important Port. Former Greek colony (BC). Captured by Seljuks in 1200

A Mans A Man For A That by Lindsay Cable
Two women dressed in masculine outfits of shirts, ties, flat shoes and, in the case of one, knickerbockers or plus-fours, smoke cigarettes and comment on a passing gentleman wearing a kilt

Peasants seizing potato crop, Ireland
Peasants seize the potato crop of an evicted tenant near Tralee, Kerry, in Ireland. Men, women and children dig for the unharvested potatoes with shovels, spades and their bare hands

A Chinese Fishing village in California, 1884
Engraving showing the wooden framed houses and warehouses of a Chinese fishing village on the coast of California, 1884. Shrimp, caught off the American coast

Members of Waddon Hunt
Members of the Waddon Chase Hunt, young and old, men and women

James Anderson, Botanist
JAMES ANDERSON - Physician- general to the East India Company, made valuable medical innovations in India, important studies of insects and crop introduction

FRENCH AMAZON
A young Amazon woman, in full riding habit in the style of George Sand, sitting sidesaddle on a white horse

Topping Book Cover
Cover illustration for compendium of school girl stories

Allotment Potato Crop
A man in a flat cap proudly harvests his splendid potato crop from his allotment

Planing Off a Bit More
Comment on womens desire to achieve the fashionable silhouette of no curves. A thin, flat-chested woman with an Eton crop wears court shoes & a sailor style dress

Flapper on a Cloud 1926
Androgynous woman with an Eton crop, short dress with square cut collar, patch pockets with tassel trim & pleated flounce, & rolled stocking tops sits dreamily on a cloud smoking

Sporting Women 1919
A man has difficulty choosing between the traditional riding girl and the modern motoring girl

Lady on Mauve Cloud
Attractive flapper type sitting on a cloud, with rolled stockings and bobbed hair

Riding Dress 1841
Huntsman: pleated plaid trousers, shooting coat with many pockets. Riding Habits: jockey cap, Newmarket coat & top boots; buttoned jacket & skirt with a train

Mr Popple Front Cover
Front cover design, showing Mr Popple on his horse, ready to join the hunt

Silhouette / Byron
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON A silhouette of the English Romantic poet, in profile, sitting on a chair

Connie Gilchrist / Bowler
CONNIE GILCHRIST English actress in her riding clothes - she left the stage in the late 1880s to become Countess of Orkney

Country Clothes 1927
Fernie Hunt horse show, Market Harborough: Lord Stallbridge, Master of Hounds (left) & friend wear bowler hats, gaiters & water-proof coats

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