Grow Collection (page 2)

Illustration, Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Illustration (possibly the frontispiece), Mary Mary Quite Contrary how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Date: 1895

Boy in Hand-Me-Downs
A country boy, looking after geese, wears clothes handed down by his brothers, his father, even his grandfather - He ll grow into them soon enough ! Date: 1895

Babies Grow on Trees
Babies grow on trees, waiting for you to pick them. Date: circa 1905

Ottele Von Hoe (115)
JOHANN OTTELE VON HOHE Long-lived German citizen whose beard had a long time to grow long in. Drawn when he was only 115 years old. Date: 1542 - 1663

Olive region, Italy
Olives and their oil are a staple part of the Italian diet. Climate conditions vary across different places in Italy, resulting in a variety of olives that thrive in one place

Fashion accessories: handbags and scarfs from Debenhams, Lon
Accessories grow in beauty and prestige - new and decorative handbags and a scarf from Debenham s, London Date: 1927

Favourite Sayings - No plough, many weeds
Black and white lantern slide of painted image of vegetation in front of a fence while in the background a man is ploughing a field.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Miss Hermione Kennedy digging somewhere in France
Miss Hermione Kennedy, the daughter of Lady Alexander Kennedy, widow of the late Lord Alexander Kennedy, snapshotted digging in the garden of a British soldiers buffet somewhere on the Western Front

How Does My Garden Grow? by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy tends his springtime bulbs, watched by a robin on a branch. Date: 1942

Where the Nodding Foxgloves Grow by Muriel Dawson -- a girl and a boy in the countryside with their pet dog. Date: 1941

Healthcare for children under five years 1947
If your child is under five. Issued by the Ministry of Food. It isn t only the tiny baby, but the child right up to five years, who needs cod liver oil and orange juice every day

Pavement artist 1930s
A pavement artist kneels by his work, drawn in chalk on the street. The central wording reads, light burdens long borne grow heavy

Nursery Rhymes -- foxhunters, Mary in her garden
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Three foxhunters find a hedgehog (above). Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? (below) Date: early 20th century

Bibye and Mary Lake
SIR BIBYE LAKE at age 10, and his sister MARY age 8 : he will grow up to become a prosperous merchant in the Royal African Company. Date: 1684 - 1744

Galusha Aaron Grow
GALUSHA aRON GROW American statesman, Speaker of Congress with his autograph Date: 1822 - 1907

The American war effort at home - WWI - the benefits of growing ones own food on a allotment, smallholding or in the garden and also the benfits of then bottling/canning fruit and veg

General concepts of Horticulture Ornament
Plate 52 from Le Regne Vegetal. Atlas, Vol 14. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

We grow wiser as we grow older. Illustration shows a large female figure labeled Enlightenment pushing open doors labeled Pan-American Exposition

Grow it yourself Plan a farm garden now. Poster for the US Department of Agriculture promoting victory gardens, showing carrots, lettuce, corn, tomatoes, and potatoes growing

National Savings - Growth up to 1945
See how your Savings Certificates have grown already The healthy growth of value of National Savings plotted against a growing boy. Date: 1945

Priest River Valley, where many settlers grow hay between the stumps. Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 49. Date 1939 Oct

Old Workhouse Infirmary, Hunslet, West Yorkshire
The infirmary at the old Hunslet Union workhouse on Hillidge Road, Hunslet. The area next to the building was extensively cultivated to grow vegetables for consumption by the inmates

Peaceful scene in cemetery
Wild flowers grow and intertwine in this peaceful cemetery scene, with a bird perched on a leaf singing, and a snail crawling along slowly below. 1925

Silhouette, Tall Oaks from Little Acorns Grow

Twelve proverbial silhouettes given a literal depiction: the fat is in the fire, to have a finger in the pie, sending coals to Newcastle, one sows and another reaps

Young woman, Miss Peggy Kurton
Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- a young woman (the actress Peggy Kurton) in a relaxed pose with roses. Date: early 20th century

Healthcare for children under five years 1948
Issued by the Ministry of Food, to make adults aware what food and drink to give their under fives, so they will grow healthy

E Richards. Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow. Silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all of a row. 20th century

Man in vegetable garden
A man working in a vegetable garden with rows of large onions. circa 1940s

Small girl with prize winning celery
A little girl grins with delight as she is dwarfed by some gigantic celery she is holding, along with a first prize certificate, presumably for said celerys impressive proportions. c.1947

Woman / Riviera Rose 1926
A woman admires her Riviera Roses which grow on a Mediterranean terrace by the sea. Date: 1926

The Gods Without Freia
Without Freia to keep them young, the gods grow wan and old

Little Gardener by Muriel Dawson
A little blonde girl in a red dress waters her seedlings with a small watering can

Empty allotments / W H Robinson
On the allotment when we don t have to grow our own cabbages This post war couple use theirs for flute practice and sewing

Lear / Nonsense / Hurst
There was an Old Person of Hurst, who drank when he was not athirst; When they said, You ll grow fatter, he answered, What matter? That globular Person of Hurst

Design for a winter garden at Alexandra Palace, 1859
Engraving showing the interior of a proposed winter garden inside the Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, London, 1859. The large dome shown was proposed to allow tropical plants

Henri IV Born
The union of Francois de Bourbon and Jeanne d Albret is blessed with a baby boy who will, against all odds, grow up to be Frances favourite king, Henri IV

Transatlantic Sketches. Sandy Lake, Minnesota
Scene showing the Missippi River and its indigenous American Indian population who grow wild rice and hunt waterfowl in the region

Restored figure of the Iguanodon
The Iguanodon, a large herbivore, which could grow up to 10 metres. It had numerous teeth enabling it to chew vegetation. Its powerful hind legs were ideal for escaping predators

Saint Wilgefortis
SAINT WILGEFORTIS - legendary daughter of a king of Portugal who asked God to let her grow a beard to escape marriage, and who was consequently martyred, bearded but chaste

Ship of Callisto
On Callisto, one of Jupiter;s moons, they have trees which grow beneath the water, and from the bark of these they construct their vessels which are rowed like Earth galleys

Little Fish & the Fisher
THE LITTLE FISH AND THE FISHERMAN: a tiddler tries to persuade a fisher to let him grow into a big trout, worth catching, but the man prefers to keep what he has

Edwards Harlene for Hair
Advertisement for Harlene hair producer and restorer, showing a little girl pouring the preparation onto the bald head of her baby brother or sister, saying, Never mind, Baby! it will soon grow now

Edwards Harlene
Advertisement or advertorial showing a full page engraving of a Victorian woman brushing her exceptionally long hair, watched by her daughter

Napoleons Family Tree
Napoleon plants his family tree, hoping that will grow as sturdy as the royal oak of England. See also 10078160 for full colour original print

Mahogany, West Indies
Mahogany trees in the West Indies : the enormous demand for this hard furnishing wood leads, alas, to extensive deforestation for it takes many years to re-grow

Aynho / Apricot Village
Cottagers in this Northants village grow apricots on the walls of their cottages. When the fruit is ripe, the fruit is harvested, sold and the money used to pay the rent

Feeding a Hunting Falcon
Feeding a hunting falcon (they grow to a great size in Scandinavia !)

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping