Peasants Collection (page 8)

Napoleon Cheered
Napoleons empire is approved by a majority of Frenchpeople - peasants of the Bourbonnais cheer him as he travels through their region

Irish Peasants attacking an Eviction Party, Ireland, 1887
Engraving showing several poor Irish farmers preparing to attack an eviction party with boulders, Ireland, 1887. Absentee landlords evicted tenant farmers who could not pay their rent during

Polish refugees
An exodus of Polish peasants from the Warsaw area of Poland. Around 10 million refugees accompanied the Russian army as it retreated through Galicia

China / Reading & Writing
Chinese peasants are taught to read and write as part of Chairman Maos Great Leap Forward

Armed Police Collect Tax
French Government officials seeking to make an inventory of church property meet resistance from peasants who regard it as an attack on the Church

Countryman and the Snake
THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE SNAKE A charitable man finds a frozen serpent and warms it in front of the fire, but the snake bites him: a wretched creature cannot be raised up

Czech Peasants Dancing
A group of young Czechoslovakian peasants in traditional costumes

Ice Cutting, Russia
Three Russian workers in tunics, boots and warm hats having cut a block of ice with a saw load it onto a rudimentary horse-drawn sleigh

Russian Peasants
Russian peasants, old and young, equipped for some heavy-duty woodwork with sturdy hatchets and saws

Pelopidas Goes to Thebes
The Theban general Pelopidas (in green) and his men, disguised as peasants, set off for Thebes and are successful in freeing the city from the crushing Spartan occupation

Charles, Robert, Balloon
Unmanned balloon, filled with inflammable Air drawn from Iron by means of a Vitriolic Acid travels from the Champ de Mars to Gonzesse where it is attacked by peasants

Ukraine Peasants
A peasant couple from the Ukraine : he makes music, she makes hay with no shoes on but a prettily ornamented hat

Peasants into Frogs
Leta, fleeing Hera with her children Apollo and Artemis, gets thirsty, but peasants gathering rushes refuse her drink, so she has Zeus turn them into frogs

Refugees in Flight
Civil war erupts between the supporters of Espartero and his enemies : peasants flee before the advance of Van Halen

Agricultural Commune
Food distribution in an agricultural commune: women and bare-footed children queue for milk

Thatch for Animals
Peasants strip the thatch from roofs of farm buildings, to feed their livestock

Suspect Peasant
Though serfdom is abolished, many peasants seek further reforms : police visit the home of a suspected dissident who cringes before them

Peasant Insurgents
In the Orel district peasants raid the farms of wealthy landowners : the rioters are crushed by the Governor and his Cossacks with great brutality

Dispute with China 2
A frontier dispute leads to fighting between China and Russia : Russian peasants flee their village as Russian forces sail down the Amur to the relief of Blagovestchensk

Dispute with China 1
A frontier dispute leads to fighting between China and Russia : Russian peasants flee their village as the Chinese approach

Hunting Hoarders
Russian police search the homes of peasants suspected of having hidden stores and stolen grain

Cent. European Peasants
A central European peasant couple in colourful attire

Fishing for Frogs / China
Fishing for frogs in China using a small blaze in a metal basket to attact the creatures to the surface

Russian Harvest 1913
Russian peasants bring in the harvest on a horse cart

Callot / Peasant Ambush
Peasants retaliate on the soldiers who pillage their farms, attacking them with their threshing flails

Drying Hemp, Russia
Russian peasants cultivating hemp (cannabis sativa) : they are setting it out on racks to dry

Peasants in their Best
A Russian peasant family dressed in their holiday clothes

Collecting Firewood
Peasants collecting firewood

Male Peasants
Peasant men of the Crimea

1381 River Barge
River barge, used by Richard II to travel down the Thames to meet the revolting peasants at Rotherhithe

Robin Thanked
Robin Hood, in armour and on horseback, is thanked by the peasants for rescuing them from oppression

Soviet peasants inspect a shot-down Messerschmidt ME 109 BF

Windsor by Sandby
The castle seen from the river, with picturesque fishermen and peasants in the fields

Musaeus Collecting
The German writer J K A Musaeus collects traditional stories from peasants, which he worked up as fairy-tales and published in 1782+

Russian Pilgrim
A Russian pilgrim : peasants are liable to take off on pilgrimages at any excuse - a celebration, a bereavement, any excuse will do

Leaving Irish Village
Irish peasants leave their village in wagons, the first stage of their journey from Ireland to America

Peasants Attack Farm
Peasants attack a well-to-do farm

Vote for Land Transfer
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - At a meeting in Dubrovitsky Village, peasants vote to transfer land from the gentry to their own hands

Exacting Tax with Sword
Exacting taxes with the sword

Italians Emmigrate / Libya
20, 000 Italian peasants land at Tripoli to embark on Il Duces resettlement plan in Libya, North Africa

Versailles / No more Sun
The harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles (World War One peace treaty) mean that there is no more sun for the defeated Germany

Spanish Peasants Desert
Discouraged by agricultural distress, Andalusian peasants desert the countryside

Revolution / Peasants 1789
Peasants destroy feudal title deeds

Battle of Frankenhausen
PEASANTS REVOLT Thomas Munezer, leader of the peasants, just before the defeat by Philip of Hesse at Frankenhausen

Sinclair at Romsdal
Scottish mercenaries under Colonel Siclair, hired by the King of Sweden to attack Norway land at Romsdalen. They are in the end destroyed by the local peasants

British Cavalry Advance
On a fine autumn day, British cavalry advance towards the front through the French countryside, watched by peasants working in the fields

French Peasants C15
Peasants pause in their work to listen to an itinerant musician

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