Growing Collection (page 4)

Cupid and fairy with red hearts on a Valentine postcard
Cupid and fairy with red hearts growing on a tree on a Valentine postcard -- Of my Love, the Angels in Heaven might tell. Date: circa 1890s

Cupid watering red hearts on a Valentine postcard
Cupid watering red hearts growing in a pot on a Valentine postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Cupids with red hearts on a Christmas and New Year postcard
Cupids watering red hearts on a Christmas and New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Commonwealth Instiute - Diorama - Cotton growing in India
Commonwealth Instiute, London - Diorama - Cotton growing in India. Date: circa 1920s

Weeds growing by the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany. Date: 1960s

Tobacco Growing Italy
Italy : clipping and de- leafing the tobacco plants Date: 1929

Mangrove tree sapling grows on basalt rock June sea shore near Le Prince Maurice Hotel Poste de Flacq East of Mauritius

Giant potato, Barnesville, Minnesota, USA
A giant potato at Barnesville, Minnesota, USA, a big potato-growing area. An annual potato festival is held there. Date: circa 1910

Autumn leaves of a young European Rowan tree growing in mature Scots Pine forest (Pinus sylvestris) (Sorbus aucuparia). near Ekaterinburg - Middle Ural Mountains - Russia. autumn - September

How to start an allotment during WW1
Diagram in The Sphere advising readers how to start work on a raw piece of ground in order to create an allotment. The Food Production Department was keen to get around 500

Mountainside Birch
A birch tree growing on a steep mountainside near Cwmdare, Glamorganshire, Wales. Date: 1950s

Thatched Corn Ricks
Corn ricks with neat thatched roofs on a farm in Yorkshire, England. Date: 1930s

Dig For Victory
British wartime poster encouraging the public to grow their own food

Opium Poppy pickers - near Afyon, Turkey
Opium Poppy Pickers. The pickers have faces covered to prevent too much ingestion of the crop! The name of the city of Afyon is derivated from Opium

Izmir, Turkey - Opium Cultivation
Opium poppies and their exporter, J Taranto (from J Taranto & Sons - Exporters of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey) (left) at a field likely to be close to Afyon

Mosul, Iraq - Iraqi man with his giant Cornichon
Iraq - Mosul, a man stands proudly with his giant Cornichon (gherkin), weighing a whopping 22 kgs!

Large Vine House, Hampton Court Palace, London
Interior of the Large Vine House at Hampton Court Palace, London. 1840

Advertisement for Alsace, France
French railways advertisement for Alsace, France. 1946

Which is the tallest, by Hilda Cowham
Two small children attempt to measure their height, though it looks as if the little boy is giving himself some artificial help by standing on a book. Date: 1914

Label design, Crown Jewel citrus fruit, Florida, USA
Label design, Crown Jewel citrus fruit, Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida, USA, Citrus Growers Association. circa early 20th century

Portrait of a lily in flower
Close-up portrait of a lily in flower. circa 1955

Natural History Museum, WW1 farm
War transformation in Cromwell Road: growing agricultural produce at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London

Communist China - agricultural training
Scene on a farm in Communist China - an older woman trains three younger women in grafting and growing techniques on a cotton plantation. circa 1960s

Watneys Happy Families - Mrs Hop, the Farmers Wife. circa 1930

Watneys Happy Families - Mr Hop, the Farmer. circa 1930

Watneys Happy Families - Miss Hop, the Farmers Daughter. circa 1930

Sands Scarborough - Beach Promenade, Sea, Bathing huts on rights. Part of Box 145 Boswell Collection - East Coast. Scarborough With a population of just over 61, 000

Flowers - Fuschias and Palm Trees - growing around a white female statue. Part of Box 6 Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria Holostea) - a view of the flowers growing outside. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Wild Garlic - a view of the flowers growing outside. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Rose bush on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Lilac bush on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Oranges growing, Southern California, USA
Oranges growing in Southern California, USA, with snow on the mountains in the distance. 1930s

Ruston steam engine, vineyard in Penedes, Catalonia, Spain
Ruston steam engine in operation at the Marques de Monistrol cava-producing vineyard in the Penedes district of Catalonia, Spain. The machine had a straw-burning engine and was used for ploughing

Young Chinese boy in traditional costume (which he is still growing into!). Date: circa 1910s

Tresco - Scilly Islands - The Old Abbey Ruins - Dracaena (dragon tree) in bloom. Date: 1910s

French Happy Families - Farmer
French Happy Families - La Famille Courtepaille, Grandmother, Farmer. early 20th century

Cartoon, The distracted gardener, WW1
Cartoon, The distracted gardener. A man is having trouble remembering what he planted in his garden. He thinks it might have been a bag of sugar! Date: 1917

Snap Playing Card - All a Growing, flower seller. circa 1900s

Cartoon, Matinees! Matinees!! Matinees!!! Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre

Cheery Families - Mr Grub the Gardener. 1890s

Flowers growing in a shoe on a Christmas card
Blue forget-me-nots growing in a white shoe on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Snowdrops growing in a shoe on a greetings card
Snowdrops growing in a purple satin shoe on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Flowers growing in a shoe on a greetings card
White and purple flowers growing in a red satin shoe on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Plant growing in a shoe on a Christmas card
Plant growing in a blue and white shoe on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Colourful flowers on a Christmas card
Colourful flowers growing in a cornfield on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Thomas Creech
THOMAS CREECH : classical scholar, noted for his translations of Lucretius &c. Sadly, a growing melancholia - and a thwarted amour - drove him to take his own life. Date: 1659 - 1700

Street Arabs, & Country
The life of children growing up in the country, flying their kite in sunlit meadows, contrasted with town waifs, living as best they can with no home to go to. Date: 1896

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