Picker Collection

Land Girls WWII
A Land Girl working picking strawberries on a farm during World War II

Apple Picking a LA Mode
Travesti costume by Redfern in which Eve is depicted as the serpent in a green dress with a snakes-head headdress. She sinfully picks an apple

The Glasgow Garden Festival preparations
A photographer takes pictures from a cherry picker of the construction and preparartion for the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. The Daily Telegraph Date: 1988

Cockle Picker, Ulverston
A cockle picker outside her cottage near Ulverston, then part of Lancashire. An old woman holds a large basket. On a wooden bench is another basket full of cockle shells

Monkeys gathering leaves from tea bushes high on a mountain and delivering them to their master. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, USA
Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

An automatic slate picker Scranton Pennsylvania USA early 1900s

Hop pickers waiting for the midnight train, London Bridge Station, London. 1892

Postcard booklet, Greetings from Dixieland, USA, showing a cotton picker asleep with his head inside a basket. Date: 1937

Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire
circa 1910s

PLANTS / HUMULUS LUPULUS
A YOUNG HOP-PICKER Date: 1884

Lipton Tea Plantation - Sri Lanka - Bunyan Estate - Pickers. Date: circa 1910s

Cotton Field in Sudan
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, A Sudan Cotton Field Date: 1927-1933

Advertising trade card for The Alden fruit vinegar
Advertising trade card for " The Alden fruit vinegar". The card shows a donkey which throws the rider into a trough and some apple pickers in the background. Date: circa 1880

Salins-les-Bains - Grape Harvest at the foot of Mount Poupet
Salins-les-Bains, Saint-Thiebaud, France - The Grape Harvest at the foot of Mount Poupet. Date: circa 1905

ITALY. Cividale del Friuli. Santa Maria in Valle. Grape picker. 7th-8th c. Ostrogothic or Lombardian art. Relief on rock

Tea pickers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Tea pickers resting, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Model Hop Picker
A Swedish girl hop picker. Date: early 1930s

Co-operative Wholesale Societies - Women Picking Tea
English and Scottish - Co-operative Wholesale Societies - Picking Tea. Only the young leaf fom the BEST Gardens is used! Date: circa 1905

Borracheiros - Madeira, Portugal
Madeira, Portugal - wine pickers ( Borracheiros ) and handlers who transport the grape juice as soon after it has been pressed as possible in a goatskin; a sight now fast becoming a rare sight

10 yr. old picker on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Location: G

Migrant cotton pickers child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California. Date 1938 Nov

Strawberry picker, Hammond, Louisiana. Date 1935 Oct

Migrant agricultural workers family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers camp, Nipomo, California

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton pickers child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds

Girl Picking Apples
A young woman picking apples in an orchard in Essex, England. Date: July 1963

Swedish Hop Picker
A pretty Swedish hop picker at work in the orchards during a particularly fruiyful harvest. Date: 1930s

Tobacco Pickers - Bulgaria
Women pick tobacco in Bulgaria

Ear Picker - India
A wonderful postcard depicting an Indian ear picker and client in Bombay (Mumbai)

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh - India
Scene in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

The fruit picker
A humble fruit picker tends to a fruit tree

Moving large sacks in a warehouse
An operator uses a small picker to stack and manoeuvre piles of sacks, containing cotton or wool, into place in a large warehouse. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

1950S Flower Picker
Young woman in denim trousers & hot pink, sleeveless sun top carries a shallow flower basket full to the brim with freshly picked blooms

Tyrol Flower Picker
A woman picks wild flowers in June in the Austrian Tyrol

George Stephenson / Picker
GEORGE STEPHENSON Engineer Date: 1781 - 1848

Hop Pickers 1845
A young hop picker, though dallying with one companion, looks sympathetically at another who has either cut his finger, or is gnawing his knuckles with jealousy

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