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Cultivate Collection

Background imageCultivate Collection: Fruit Tree Culture

Fruit Tree Culture
A decorative page showing fruit trees, and ways to cultivate them. Date: 1900

Background imageCultivate Collection: Farmer ploughing using two working mules Njegusi, Montenegro

Farmer ploughing using two working mules Njegusi, Montenegro
A farmer ploughs the soil using two working mules to pull his plough in the village of Njegusi in the Cetinje Municipality of southern Montenegro, This is on the slopes of Mount Lovcen

Background imageCultivate Collection: WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Early Birds

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Early Birds
The Caption is Early Birds. There is a little bird on the window sill - most likely a robin. The small flower bed has flowers - not the vegetables that everyone was encouraged to cultivate.Mr

Background imageCultivate Collection: Rice Plant - preparing land with harrow

Rice Plant - preparing land with harrow
Chinese cultivated the land intently, annually the ground would flood by heavy rains, when the waters had receded the earth was covered with a thick coating of slime and mud

Background imageCultivate Collection: Barefoot boy with mattock, Sierra Leone

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

Background imageCultivate Collection: A man carries plough, Taj Mahal, India

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

Background imageCultivate Collection: Ploughing with oxen, Taj Mahal, India

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

Background imageCultivate Collection: Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14 th century. Medieval handbook of heal

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14 th century. Medieval handbook of heal
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Man offering turnips. Miniature. Fol. 51 r

Background imageCultivate Collection: Opium Poppy pickers - near Afyon, Turkey

Opium Poppy pickers - near Afyon, Turkey
Opium Poppy Pickers. The pickers have faces covered to prevent too much ingestion of the crop! The name of the city of Afyon is derivated from Opium

Background imageCultivate Collection: Izmir, Turkey - Opium Cultivation

Izmir, Turkey - Opium Cultivation
Opium poppies and their exporter, J Taranto (from J Taranto & Sons - Exporters of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey) (left) at a field likely to be close to Afyon

Background imageCultivate Collection: Cain in the service of people

Cain in the service of people
Cain, watched by the superior soul of the Angel of Light, Eblis, teaches the children of the Earth how to cultivate the forest. 1890s

Background imageCultivate Collection: Borneo Sago poster

Borneo Sago poster
Poster depicting a stylised scene in Borneo showing sago being harvested. Sago is a type of starch found in the soft innards of certain palms

Background imageCultivate Collection: Pampas Grass Cultivate

Pampas Grass Cultivate
Pampas Grass (cortaderia selloana) (aka gynerion) is cultivated extensively in southern South America for use in building and basket making, also for its decorative value


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