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Grains Collection

Background imageGrains Collection: Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA

Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
Mitchells Corn Palace, The Worlds Only Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota, USA. The card notes that this building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10

Background imageGrains Collection: Pollen grains from various plants

Pollen grains from various plants. Chromolithograph from Julius Fritzsche, Ueber den Pollen. Tab IX. Date: 1837

Background imageGrains Collection: Corns and grains at different stages of development

Corns and grains at different stages of development. Lithograph from Carl Correns, Bastarde zwischen Maisrassen, mit besonderer Berhtigung der Xenien. Date: 1901

Background imageGrains Collection: Grains of Selim tree, Xylopia aethiopica

Grains of Selim tree, Xylopia aethiopica
Grains of Selim, Xylopia aethiopica, Habzelia aethiopica, Habzeli d Ethiopie. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Background imageGrains Collection: The Tavern

The Tavern
This painting depicts a tavern scene, where a maid is casually seated on a table, with one foot resting on a chair, enjoying a conversation with a man sat beside her

Background imageGrains Collection: Threshing rice grains, Japan

Threshing rice grains, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageGrains Collection: Farm workers tripping rices grains from straw, Japan

Farm workers tripping rices grains from straw, Japan
Farm workers tripping rices grains from the straw, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageGrains Collection: Farm workers stripping grains of rice from straw, Japan

Farm workers stripping grains of rice from straw, Japan
Farm workers stripping grains of rice from the straw, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Background imageGrains Collection: Grains of paradise, Aframomum melegueta

Grains of paradise, Aframomum melegueta
Grains of paradise, Melegueta pepper, alligator pepper, Aframomum melegueta (Amomum melegueta). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Background imageGrains Collection: September. Goddess Demeter

September. Goddess Demeter
Demeter, mother of Persephone, the Greek goddess of harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. Artist: Sydney Carter Date: 1903

Background imageGrains Collection: Kaempferia roscoeana, Germinating pollen cells

Kaempferia roscoeana, Germinating pollen cells - Watercolour by Franz Bauer, undated. Paper, watercolour. Botany Library, Drawings of Francis Bauer of epidermis, hairs, pollen grains, monstrosities

Background imageGrains Collection: Angiosperm pollen

Angiosperm pollen - Pollen of various angiosperm species. Watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1800-1833. Paper, watercolour. Botany Library

Background imageGrains Collection: Egyptian censer. Bronze

Egyptian censer. Bronze
Egyptian censer for burning incense grains in front of a divine shrine. Bronze. 25th Dynasty. Third Intermediate Period. 700 BC. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Background imageGrains Collection: The Roskilde cross. Byzantine reliquary cross of gold. Aroun

The Roskilde cross. Byzantine reliquary cross of gold. Aroun
The Roskilde cross. Byzantine reliquary cross of gold. The front side is decorated with 7 pearls and 15 gems. Around 1100. Found in the rood arch crucifix of Roskilde Cathedral. Denmark

Background imageGrains Collection: Women sieving cereals in Sumbawanga

Women sieving cereals in Sumbawanga. Tanzania, Africa

Background imageGrains Collection: Japanese women sorting grain

Japanese women sorting grain
Japanese women sort, grade and winnow grain. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageGrains Collection: Damascus, Syria - Wheat Seller

Damascus, Syria - Wheat Seller Date: circa 1910s

Background imageGrains Collection: Polo, Marco (1254-1324). Venetian traveller

Polo, Marco (1254-1324). Venetian traveller. Manuscript edition in French (14th c.). Trade of grains and fabrics. Description of the World. s.XIV. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris

Background imageGrains Collection: Rice - paddy threshing - Rangoon

Rice - paddy threshing - Rangoon - Three white bullocks with a driver walked in a never-ending circle, around and around on the piled paddy, walking the grains out

Background imageGrains Collection: Jack Sparrow asking the horse for a few grains of corn

Jack Sparrow asking the horse for a few grains of corn. Unfortunately he is too late -- there is nothing left in the bag. Date: 1937

Background imageGrains Collection: Operating the Velox Plate-Graining Machine

Operating the Velox Plate-Graining Machine at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Background imageGrains Collection: The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Bates Scales fo

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Bates Scales fo
In June 1842 a proclamation was issued announcing that a large prportion of the gold coinage in Britain had become worn and devalued and was below its prescribed weight of five penny weights

Background imageGrains Collection: Brazil. A Gold Washing. Gold Dust

Brazil. A Gold Washing. Gold Dust
Engraving of grains of gold, oval in shape like minute coins

Background imageGrains Collection: Apollo and the Sibyl

Apollo and the Sibyl
Apollo promises his lover Sibyl she may live as many years as she can hold grains of sand; she becomes very aged, no more than a voice - the oracular Sibyl of Cuma


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