Fruit Collection (page 51)

Victoria Plums
Victoria plums, on the tree and in a basket. Date: 1974

Strawberry Fields
People (including a little girl with plaited hair), picking strawberries in a field. Date: 1990

Town mice and country mice
Two couples eating at a restaurant at separate tables, one couple looking smug dressed up in the latest attire with their wine and bowl of fruit

Illustration, First Arrivals, showing three children who are the first to arrive at a party, sitting demurely on a sofa. 1885

Little girl in yellow dress with basket of fruit
A little girl in a frilly yellow dress with a basket of fruit on her lap. 1915

Child picking fruit. Artist: Anon. A child picking an apple from a tree Date: 1926

Samarkand - Uzbekistan - Melon Sellers
Samarkand - Uzbekistan - Watermelon Sellers before the Mosque. The building back left is one of the three madrasahs of the Registan, the heart of the ancient city. Date: circa 1910s

Fruit scraps Date: circa 1953

Five children picking blackberries. 1880

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

Cover design, Marigold Garden by Kate Greenaway. Showing three little girls looking over a garden gate. 1885

The Cat Ran Up the Plum Tree... half a crown to fetch her down... 20th century

Girl picking fruit. Artist: Anon. A girl picking fruit Date: 1926

Entrance to the market - Corfu, Greece Date: circa 1910s

Growing rhubarb
A lady gardener pictured with an impressive harvest of rhubarb. The fruit bushes behind her look healthy too. c.1945

Banana advertisement, 1931
Advertisement for Fyffes bananas from 1931 advising people to eat them in the winter as a popular, nourishing, nuturitious and cheap snack

Norwegian boy with oranges
Evan Larsen, of Skine, Norway, leaves for home with bags packed with oranges, a fruit he had never tasted before but was being freely sold in England by the late 1940s. c.1946

A Windfall - tasting an apple in the garden
A Windfall - a charming postcard from Lance Thackerays Amateur Gardening series. A lady gives her male companion a taste of the first fallen apple of the season. Date: 1906

Soho Fruit Stores, London
A corner greengrocers shop in Soho, central London with an impressive bow window. 1940s

Street scene in Londons theatreland, showing the Casino Theatre, with parked cars, pedestrians and a fruit stall. circa 1940s

Fruit Shop selling Melons, dates and apples - Georgia Date: 1909

Little girl on a Happy Birthday postcard
A little girl with flowers and an apple, on a greetings postcard to wish my dear grand-daughter a Happy Birthday. circa 1910s

From The White Cat by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

Raisin Industry, California, US
Raisin Industry, California, United States. London Layers from Fresno, California. Fresno and the surrounding area produce about 60 percent of the worlds raisins

Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - Durian seller Date: circa 1910s

Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910

Music at home - As the old sing, so the young pipe
A wealthy family group make music together-an old lady in spectacles sings from her large woven chair, a woman holds a child playing a flute

Advertisement for Spode China -- every piece an heirloom. Marketed by W T Copeland & Sons at the Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent. Featuring three items: an ornate vase and two plates. Date: May 1951

Fairy flannel is the skin of peaches (Useful Hints). 1922

Christmas dinner carried in by four children dressed in medieval costume. There is a large turkey, glasses of steaming punch, a large round pudding, and a plate of fruit. early 20th century

Cuckoo on the cherry tree, come down and tell me how many years have I got to live. 20th century

Danish Veggie Market
Housewives and servants at the fruit and vegetable market on a rainy day in Copenhagen. Date: 1888

Two girls picking apples from a tree. 1880

Children Pick Apples
Three children gathering apples as they fall from the branch of the tree. Date: 1921

Naughty Boy Eats Jam
A naughty boy eats straight from the jam pot, despite having promised not to. Date: 1939

Litchis (Lychees)
euphoria litchi A cluster of litchi fruit : introduced to the west from the Chinese province of Fukien in the 1840s, this must be one of the earliest depictions. Date: circa 1845

Boy Eats Apple
A gleeful little boy eats an apple. 1921

Mother Hubbard / Flute
She went to the fruiterers To buy him some fruit But when she came back He was playing the flute Date: 1890s

Old Mother Hubbard: Playing flute

Trees / Orchard Trees
A decorative page of orchard and other fruit trees, their blossoms, their training, their fruits Date: early 20th century

Brittany Veg. Market
A Brittany vegetable market. The women gather in their traditional dress. Date: 1912

Peeler Move Traders On
A policeman moves on some female street traders who are selling fruit and vegetables. Date: circa 1830

Yes! We Have No Bananas. A music sheet cover showing a fruit and vegetable seller who is sorry, but he has no bananas today! He holds out his hands and shrugs in front of his shop. Date: 1920s

Picking Fruit in America
Girls and boys gathering berries in America. Date: 1874

Slab Cake Selection 1937
A range of handsome and high class slab cakes are offered, including the Waverley, Oxford, Melbourne, Dundee and West End. Date: 1937

Chewing Gum Advert
CHEWING GUM Ad admirably tasteful advertisement for Adams California Fruit Gum Date: 1920

Children Raid Dessert
Six children in their night clothes raid the dessert in the dining room while no adults are around. Date: 1885

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

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