Growing Collection (page 2)

Curing barns at a tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s

Delivering plants to a curing barn, Tobacco plantation, USA
Delivering plants to a curing barn at a Tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s

Processing tobacco at a plantation in Virginia, USA, early 1900s

The cutting room, tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s

Loading a ship at a tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s

WW2 - Growing Up
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Growing Up, written by Angela Thirkell. The image depicts an interior scene where two wartime women and a man in military uniform enjoy tea. Date: 1945

Le Front A Neuf Pervyse
A landscape etching of some thick, gnarled trees, growing at a slant on a steep section of river bank, a haystack is just visible in the background grasslands. Date: circa 1921

The Hop Garden, Wrotham, Kent Date: 1875

The Mill
Lino cut showing an old mill covered by a diagonally growing tree. Date: circa 1929

Thomas Cook Vesuvius Postcard pictures & map
Cook had the Funicular built for their growing tours. Travellers rushed to the kiosk at the top to buy and then post right there a postcard

Ivy-covered house Date: 1960

Wives who save their husbands hair! Date: 1925

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Milicianos! No dsperdicieis municiones, viveres ni energias (Militia! Don't waste neither munitions, provisions nor energies)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). No deixeu cap arada inactiva ni gens de terra sense treballar (Dont't leave neither inactive plough nor unworked land)

Neville Chamberlain with RH Stoughton and Samuel Hoare
Neville Chamberlain (Arthur Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940), British Conservative politician, and Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940

Typical Sunday scene on a country road 1925: The Growing dan
Congested country road. The increased volume of motor traffic and the ever growing death toll from road accidents was becoming the subject of grave public concern at the time. 1925

Postcard design - When can I see you?. A gardener keeping an eye (through a magnifying glass!) of a little plant slowly growing larger. Date: circa 1937

Comic postcard, Large man walking on the beach Date: 20th century

Allotment studies by G. E. Studdy
No. I. - Back to the land and what it fills like! To tackle food shortages, people were given plots to grow their own vegetables, in this cartoon a man is in agonising back pain

Fruit of the Country Bananas - Palma, Canaries, Spain
circa 1910s

Ruins of ancient Roman arch, probably Rome, Italy
Vintage late 19th century photograph - ruins of ancient Roman arch with weeds growing from the top, probably Rome, Italy

Lee Church
View of the medaeval church which has long since been demolished. This was replaced in 1814, then in the 1830s demolished to make way for the present St Margarets Church

Intensive vegetable production, 1940
Intensive vegetable production. Inter-cropping as a war time necessity, 1940. Date: 1940

What digging for victory really means, 1940
This is what Digging for Victory really means, 1940. Growing vegetables in an allotment or garden. Date: 1940

Gathering the leaves of the tea plant, China. (2 of 4) Date: 1832

Cultivation of the tea plant, China. (1 of 4) Date: 1832

Woman gathering tea, China. 1857

Tea gathering in Japan. Date: 1881

Advertisement for Stones Ginger Wine. Date: 1893

Vineyard in Montmartre, Paris, France. Date: 1950s

Cartoon, Another Juliet. Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre, for a matinee slot

Soya beans - a hint for hungry Europe 1921
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the possibilities of the soya bean as the solution to the cost of living in Europe

Advert, Bell & Bieberstedt, Seed Growers, Leith, Scotland
Advert for Bell & Bieberstedt, Seed Growers, Leith, Scotland. 1905

1911 Census - John Bull being measured
Front cover of The Sphere, of John Bull being measured to see if his waist has grown from the decade before. Date: April 1911

Using Riley spray on greenfly in a vineyard, Algeria 1885
Using the Riley insecticide spray on greenfly in a vineyard, Algeria. Date: 1885

Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s

First steps
A baby takes his first faltering steps while his nurse or nanny keeps close by. Date: 1925

Hop-picking season in Kent 1901
Summer months were very popular for going to Kent for the annual hop-picking season. People would come from miles around to spend the summer months sleeping in primitive camps for two or three weeks

Hop-picking on the road 1858
Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and town of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London

Hop-picking resting 1858
Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and towns of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London

Golden Soil: French methods of Market Gardening for England, showing scenes from the Market Garden at Thatcham, Berkshire. Date: 1908

Advert for Chinese Lantern Plant 1897
Ornamental window or garden plant, (Physalis alkekengi), giving you a delicious fruit, growing freely during the summer and winter months

Sheaves of flax drying in a field, Belgium. Date: 1922

Gardener and greenhouse. 19th century

Nutmeg plantation 1868
Island of Penang, in the Indian Ocean by the Strait of Malacca, consisted of a vast plantation of fruit trees of which the nutmeg was run by an English enterprise

An Every-day Scene in 1917 by W. E. Wigfull
Women and children working on the land take a moment to gaze up at the sky as a military aircraft flies above. 1917

Sunday morning with hop-pickers 1871
Hop picking season in Kent, men, women and children from many distant villages and town of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, East End of London

Wine production, Madeira -- men, vines and barrels. Date: circa 1900s

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