Figs Collection

Izmir, Turkey - Camel brand figs
Camel brand Figs from Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. An advertising card featuring two laden camels from a camel train led by a driver riding a mule Date: circa 1901

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Large fig factory
The scale of the fig industry at Izmir is demonstrated in this postcard showing a huge warehouse with a multitude of baskets and workers

Fig sorting - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig sorting at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Advertising card for Izmir (Smyrna) Figs
A delightful advertising card for Djanik Elmassians Diana Brand Genuine Smyrna Figs from Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - showing the Roman Aqueduct

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - A Street Fruit Seller. Date: circa 1908

Tunisia - a trader in a shops in the medina of Tunis
Tunisia - a fantastic photographic portrait of a trader in a shop in the medina of Tunis. Possibly a fruit seller? Date: circa 1908

Fig, medlar and quince
Fruit, fruits a pepin et fruits en baie. Figs, Ficus carica 1, 2, medlar, Mespilus germanica 3, and quince, Cydonia oblonga 4, 5

Bacchic initiation rites
Bacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings)

Roman art. Italy. Fresco. Basket of figs. 1st century AD. Oplontis. Campania. Italy

Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig packing at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Kuwait - Fruit Seller Date: circa 1910s

Punic War: Cato
PUNIC WARS Cato throws fresh figs on Senate table, to show that Carthage is still a threat to Roman sovereignty; he demands its destruction

A Naiad, a follower of Bacchus, carrying a vase and plate with figs.. Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749

The fig Market at the Bazaar, Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey. Date: circa 1905

Fresno, California, USA - drying figs in the hot sun. Date: circa 1910s

FANTIN-LATOUR, Henri-Th鯤ore (1836-1904). Still
FANTIN-LATOUR, Henri-Th鯤 ore (1836-1904). Still life. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon Calouste Gulbenkian Museum)

Egypt - Fig Seller
Egypt - Street Fig Seller and a water carrier/seller Date: circa 1910

Tabriz, Iran - Fruit Seller
A Beautiful early photographic picture postcard showing a Fruit Seller. Rather bizarrely there is a partial view of a chap on a ladder emerging into the top-right hand corner of the shot - what he is

Romanian Fruit Seller
A young Romanian boy in National costume carrying two large baskets filled with fruit (including melons, figs and grapes)

Sponge, nuts and fig Sellers - turkey
Itinerant street vendors of Sponges, Figs and Nuts in Constantinople, Turkey

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Fig Market
The fig Market at the Bazaar, Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey

Izmir, Turkey - The Sorting of Figs
Fig sorting at a depot Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey

Lear / Nonsense / Ischia
There was an Old Person of Ischia, whose conduct grew friskier and friskier; He dance hornpipes and jigs, and ate thousands of figs, that lively Old Person of Ischia

Christmas on Board a British Battleship, 1894
Engraving showing the scene on the deck of a Royal Navy Warship in the Mediterranean, at Christmas. The women have come onto the warship to sell figs, nuts, apples

Marseille Trade Centre
A shipment of figs arrives at Marseille, whose strategic position on the Mediterranean, with access to western Europe, renders it one of the worlds leading trading centres

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