Fruit Collection (page 52)

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

Old Mother Hubbard: Dancing, reading news, wearing clothes

Rodosto Water Melon

Guy Fawkes reprimands trespasser
A life-like effigy of the famous Gunpowder Plot conspirator reprimands a schoolboy who has trespassed, having climbed a ladder over a fence to take fruit from the store shed

Busy scene outside Covent Garden Market, London
A busy scene outside Covent Garden Market, London. Horse-drawn carts are being loaded up with baskets of fruit and flowers

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

Apricot trees growing up a house wall

Double page spread in a diary for 12-17 August
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 12-17 August. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Solanum Lycopersicum (Tomato) Sunrise, a red fruit (often regarded as a vegetable) of the Solanaceae family, seen here growing and ripening on the stalk

Prunus (Flowering Cherry Tree) in blossom
Prunus (Flowering Cherry Tree), several ornamental trees planted near water, laden with pink and white blossom. Daffodils are growing at their roots

Olive Malvery selling fruit
In the early 1900s, Olive Malvery, an established singer and reciter of verse, became known for her investigative reports on Londons poor, especially women

Coster with his barrow, London
A coster with his barrow, loaded with fruit, on a London street

Young men at Salvation Army Training Centre
A group of six young men picking apples in an orchard. The location is a Salvation Army Training Centre preparing them for overseas duties with the organisation

Little Rosy Cheeks by Muriel Dawson
A little girl with curly brown hair and big brown eyes studiously chews an apple as rosy as her cheeks

Dockside conveying facility for loading bananas
A dockside conveying facility for loading bananas, with the name of the United Fruit Co. painted on its side

A man and woman of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Paw Paw Seller - Bermuda, West Indies

Greece, Crete - Chania - Fruit Market
Greece, Crete, Chania - The Fruit Market

Indian Fruit Sellers - possibly selling apples or pomegranates?

Blackberry time / childrens book
Two children picking blackberries in the Summer

Georgia - Tbilisi - Fruit Seller outside his shop. Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis

Child spanker / W H Robinson
A neat apparatus for punishing a child without hurting its feelings! The child is suspended, backside protruding while a mechanical hand, or four to be precise

Elevenses for pupils / W H Robinson
How to get the best out of a boy. The production of elevenses by school masters has a profound effect upon pupils. The intellectual absorption is increased as is the consumption of essential vitamins

Georgia - Batumi - Farmers
Farmers and loaded oxen wagons take fruit to market at Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum) a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia

Abundance and Prosperity - a New Years wish for 1906

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

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (8 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (8/8) - Women shopping at a fruit market

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Street Market
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Street Grocer (selling fruit, vegetables and bread) from large wicker baskets

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Selling Melons
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Greengrocers selling melons by the side of the road, possibly in Mostar or Sarajevo

Seville Orange Picking - Seville, Spain. Seville oranges are too bitter for modern tastes, and are therefore commonly used to make marmalade

Cupboard Love by Ethel Parkinson
A little Dutch boy snuggles up to a little Dutch girl, but alas its only her basket of fruit hes interested in. Date: early 20th century

Good Cheer by Ethel Parkinson
Good Cheer -- four children dressed in medieval costume bring in the Christmas feast, consisting of a large turkey, glasses of steaming punch, a large round pudding, and a plate of fruit

French Plums
A jar of French plums packed exclusively for Harrods

Street market at Matiari, West Bengal, India
A street market selling fruit and vegetables at Matiari, a village in West Bengal, India

Autumn painted by Pauline Baynes
A boy and a girl in the Elizabethan era pictured picking blackberries while in the background, horsemen are hunting a stag

Covent Garden Market Trader
A Covent Garden Market Trader unloads his wooden crates of fruit and vegetables

Market garden produce
A selection of market vegetables including artichokes, displayed in baskets in front of greenhouses and vegetable plots

Produce from around the Empire
Unidentified illustration but possibly for an Empire Marketing Board poster, featuring people from around the world, standing under a Union Jack flag and surrounded by a wide range of exotic produce

Fruit stall at Christmas, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Aerial view of a colourful fruit stall in the local market in Funchal, Madeira, on the night before Christmas eve (23 December) during the annual Noite de Mercado dos Lavradores (workers market night)

Market Traders - Covent Garden
Market Traders with their carts and crates and boxes of fruit and vegetables. Covent Garden, Central London

The Tatler Summer Number 1957
Jolly front cover design for The Tatlers Summer Number showing two women in traditional, but unspecified Mediterranean or European dress carrying baskets of fruit and flowers

Young woman in 1960s interior
A young woman sits reading a magazine in a typically 1960s interior. The garden outside is covered in snow

Egyptian Orange Seller with hand cart shouts out the nature of his wares to everyone within earshot

Selection and packing of dates at Nefta, Tunisia
The sorting / selection and packing into cases of dates at Nefta, Tunisia

Lugano - Switzerland - Market
Section of the Marketplace at Pessina Street, Lugano, Switzerland

Packing Bananas - Las Palmas - Gran Canaria
Packaging bananas on the street at Las Palmas, the principle city of the Spanish Municipality of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands

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