Maize Collection

Plan of the King of Sines palace, Joal, Senegambia, 18th century. Entrance A, courts B, connecting huts C, kings hut D, wives huts E, reception area F, dining area G, servants huts H

Corn or maize, Zea mays, Mais coltivato. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Seaweed species
Serrated wrack, Fucus serratus 1, Desmarests flattened weed, Desmarestia aculeata 2, and brown algae, Halidrys siliquosa 3

Mili Insignia of the Order of O naya natkia
Mili (ear of corn covered with plumes) Insignia of the Order of O naya natkia, Life Givers, Zuni nation. Chromolithograph by August Hoen from John Wesley Powells 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of

Grasses and grains including wheat, barley, oats, rice, corn, maize, papyrus, sugar, sorghum, bamboo, waterlily, etc. Lithograph from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History

Maize or corn, Zea mays, and oats, Avena sativa. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Pygmy marmoset, Cebuella pygmaea (Leonine tamarin, Midas leonina). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Sir William Jardines Naturalists Library

Herbs and vegetables, plantes condimentaires et fruits legumieres. Corn, Zea mais, cucumber, Cucumis sativus, pepper, Capsicum annuum, tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, caper, Capparis spinosa

Maize or sweetcorn, Zea mays. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle

Varieties of maize or corn, Zea mays (Zea mais)
Varieties of maize, Zea mays (Zea mais). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Bread or corn tortilla-making in Mexico. Men and women grinding maize, making tortilla and grilling them on a griddle over a fire

Corn and millet
Corn or maize, Zea mays 1, and millet, Panicum miliaceum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795

Maize or Indian corn, Zea mays. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Maize or corn, Zea mays. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Two Native African Matabele women grinding maize outside a hut. Date: circa 1930

Xochipilli. Mexica deity of love, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize, pleasure, arts and songs. Postclassic period (1325-1521). Aztec art. Sculpture on rock. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City

Azores, Portugal - Maize Pyramids. Date: 1910s

Copan, Honduras - A Stone bust of the Maize God (3rd century AD). Date: 3rd century AD

Africa woman carrying maize on her head
A Native Beauty - Africa. A superb photograph of a young woman carrying corn (maize) in a basket balanced on her head. Date: circa 1930s

Maize farm and windmill, Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1908

Maize plants and snuff. Engraving, 1841

Hominy Man, Philadelphia
A black man in Philadelphia selling hominy, ground maize boiled in milk or water Date: 1875

Statue of a Mexican god clutching an ear of corn.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Maize, Zea mays.. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieus Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

South Africa - Zulu Woman Crushing Maize
Zulu Woman Crushing Maize, Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Date: 1927

South Africa - Women carrying mealie-meal - a relatively coarse flour made from maize (called mielies or mealies). A staple food in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi

Pap and cake sellers, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa. Pap is a traditional porridge / polenta made from mielie-meal (ground maize). Date: circa 1920s

Zea mais, maize
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Zea mays, maize
This large cultivated grass called maize or sweet corn is an important cereal. Grain is ground for flour as well as forming a table vegetable, the husks are used as fuel & the leaves for cattle fodder

Miliaria calandra, corn bunting
Plate 154 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Tritonia crocata, corn lily
Illustration no.8 by Sydney Parkinson, 1767. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Papaver rhoeas L, corn poppy. Dried specimen taken from the museum herbarium. Seed from Poland, plant collected in 1952

Quiscalus quiscula, common grackle
Plate 7 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh

Lonchura striata, white-rumped munia
Plate 31, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Elaphe guttata, corn snake
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Corn Snake

Gladiolus sp. corn flag
Plate 159 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Chrysanthemum segetum, corn marigold
Corn marigold in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, July 2004

Zea mays, corn

Zea mays L. corn
From Blancos Flora de Filipinas. A botanical illustration from the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Turkish Maize Mill - Macedonia Date: 1918

Paris Fashions for May 1869
Engraving showing fashionable summer dresses for Paris, May 1869. The dresses were (from left to right): Toilette de Promenade

Farming Maize USA
Maize (Indian Corn) cultivation in the United States of America

Preparing Maize
Mexican women preparing maize

Maize Hungary 1891
Shucking indian corn (maize) on a Hungarian farm

Plants / Zea-Mays
MAIZE, or INDIAN CORN, named by Gerard TURKY WHEAT

Harvesting Maize
Harvesting maize with machines, USA

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