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Background imagePickers Collection: A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. Twort

A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. Twort
A bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935

Background imagePickers Collection: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven childre

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Picking into Bins

Hop Picking into Bins
Kent hop pickers picking into bins

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Picking in Kent - Boughton District

Hop Picking in Kent - Boughton District Date: 1907

Background imagePickers Collection: Fire Safety Hop Pickers

Fire Safety Hop Pickers
Notice to Hop-pickers giving advice as to fire prevention and what to do in case of a fire. Issued by Fire Offices Committee Fire Protection Association

Background imagePickers Collection: Strawberry Pickers

Strawberry Pickers

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Pickers 1900

Hop Pickers 1900
A group of Kentish hop pickers

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Pickers Tally Off

Hop Pickers Tally Off
Kent hop pickers " tallying off"

Background imagePickers Collection: Strawberry Pickers

Strawberry Pickers
A boy and a man picking strawberries in a field, with punnets strapped to their backs, on a farm near Cheddar, Somerset, England

Background imagePickers Collection: Kent Hop Pickers

Kent Hop Pickers
Hop-pickers in Kent collect their pay

Background imagePickers Collection: Pulling the Hops - Hop Pickers - West Malling, Kent

Pulling the Hops - Hop Pickers - West Malling, Kent. Date: 1938

Background imagePickers Collection: Hops are picked in Surrey near Farnham Palace and sold at Weyhill Fair. Date: 1891

Hops are picked in Surrey near Farnham Palace and sold at Weyhill Fair. Date: 1891

Background imagePickers Collection: Jolly Grape Pickers

Jolly Grape Pickers
A grinning group of grape pickers pose for the camera in a vineyard in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Background imagePickers Collection: Picking Lavender - Wallington, Kent

Picking Lavender - Wallington, Kent
Picking Lavender in Wallington, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Pickers 1907

Hop Pickers 1907
Workers in a Kentish hop garden sorting hops from a large basket into an upturned umbrella

Background imagePickers Collection: The Cockle Women of Gower: An Ancient Industry on the Llanrhidian Sands, South Wales

The Cockle Women of Gower: An Ancient Industry on the Llanrhidian Sands, South Wales

Background imagePickers Collection: Africa - Coconut picker high up a palm tree

Africa - Coconut picker high up a palm tree. Date: circa 1970s

Background imagePickers Collection: The Hop Garden, Goudhurst, Kent, Victorian period

The Hop Garden, Goudhurst, Kent, Victorian period Date: circa late 19th century

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop picking in Kent, Victorian period

Hop picking in Kent, Victorian period Date: circa late 19th century

Background imagePickers Collection: Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, USA

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire

Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire
circa 1910s

Background imagePickers Collection: Tea plantation in Ceylon / Sri Lanka - Victorian period

Tea plantation in Ceylon / Sri Lanka - Victorian period

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop pickers in Kent - Victorian period

Hop pickers in Kent - Victorian period

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Picking Kent Victorian period

Hop Picking Kent Victorian period

Background imagePickers Collection: Kent Hop Pickers early 1900s

Kent Hop Pickers early 1900s

Background imagePickers Collection: Picking Tea - Japan

Picking Tea - Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Background imagePickers Collection: Picking Princeps Pseudonarcissus Daffodils on the Scilly Isles

Picking Princeps Pseudonarcissus Daffodils on the Scilly Isles, Cornwall. Date: circa 1920s

Background imagePickers Collection: Group of London Hop Pickers in Kent

Group of London Hop Pickers in Kent
Whole families from the East End of London used to travel to the hop fields of Kent for picking. A typical family group is shown here amongst the hop poles Date: circa 1905

Background imagePickers Collection: With the distressed hop pickers in Kent

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

Background imagePickers Collection: Battle over the corpse of Patroclus outside Troy

Battle over the corpse of Patroclus outside Troy
Greeks and Trojans battle over the naked corpse of Patroclus outside Troy. Menelaus and Ajax protected the body until Achilles could retrieve it. Combattimento pel Cadavere di Patroclo

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop pickers waiting for the midnight train, London

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop-picking season in Kent 1901

Hop-picking season in Kent 1901
Summer months were very popular for going to Kent for the annual hop-picking season

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop-picking on the road 1858

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop-picking resting 1858

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Fruit-picking for Covent Garden market 1909

Fruit-picking for Covent Garden market 1909
Autumn season, where in kent workers are busy collecting plentiful baskets of fruit for Covent Garden market, London. Date: 1909

Background imagePickers Collection: Sunday morning with hop-pickers 1871

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Stylized Grape Pickers

Stylized Grape Pickers

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop pickers in Kent 1911

Hop pickers in Kent 1911
Kent hop pickers. Date: 1911

Background imagePickers Collection: Strawberry picking season in Kent 1901

Strawberry picking season in Kent 1901
People picking strawberries in Kent on a warm summer day. Date: 1901

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Picking in Kent - Loading Pockets for Market

Hop Picking in Kent - Loading Pockets for Market - the writing on the pockets would suggest these were destined for a brewery in Leeds. Date: circa 1906

Background imagePickers Collection: Lipton Tea Plantation - Sri Lanka - Bunyan Estate - Pickers

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Pickers

Hop Pickers
A group of hop pickers at work, probably in Kent. The hops, used to flavour beer, can be seen in the background trained up poles and wires. Date: Date unknown

Background imagePickers Collection: The Little Hoppers Hospital

The Little Hoppers Hospital at Five Oak Green, Paddock Wood, Kent, which prior to its role as a hospital for the many local hop pickers, was the Rose & Crown public house

Background imagePickers Collection: Commonwealth Instiute - Diorama - Cotton growing in India

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Cotton Field in Sudan

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Pickers 1905

Hop Pickers 1905
Men, women and children all participating in hop picking

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Pickers at Work

Hop Pickers at Work
A set of hop pickers at work

Background imagePickers Collection: Family of Hop Pickers

Family of Hop Pickers
A family of hop pickers, including a baby, children, adults and grandmother, stop work for a break and something to eat and drink

Background imagePickers Collection: Collecting Oysters - Arcachon, Southwestern France

Collecting Oysters - Arcachon, Southwestern France
Arcachon is a seaside resort town in southwest France thats known for oyster harvesting Date: 1909

Background imagePickers Collection: Easter Lily Field in Bloom, Bermuda

Easter Lily Field in Bloom, Bermuda

Background imagePickers Collection: Advertising trade card for The Alden fruit vinegar

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Salins-les-Bains - Grape Harvest at the foot of Mount Poupet

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Picking - Kent - The Midday Rest

Hop Picking - Kent - The Midday Rest Date: 1906

Background imagePickers Collection: Japan - Tea Pickers Dance of the Allies - 1918

Japan - Tea Pickers Dance of the Allies - 1918
Japan - Tea Pickers Dance of the Allies, composed for the occasion - performed at an informal entertainment for Japanese and Foreign Exporters by the Shidzuokaken Tea Association, July 3rd 1918

Background imagePickers Collection: Great hop-pickers demonstration 1908

Great hop-pickers demonstration 1908
Dense crowds in Trafalgar square, demonstrating against a threatened industry of foreign hop imports, large crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square, London, estimated forthy to fifty thousand people

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop Gardens, Kent

Hop Gardens, Kent, England. Showing Hop Pickers Date: 1910s

Background imagePickers Collection: Japan - Japanese tea pickers

Japan - Japanese tea pickers
Black and white lantern slide slide of three female tea pickers with baskets sitting or standing beneath a tree. Part of Box 157 Japan Boswell Collection. Slide number 16 Date: circa 1890s

Background imagePickers Collection: Women picking fruit in Kent during World War One, 1916

Women picking fruit in Kent during World War One, 1916
Female fruit-pickers in the fruit gardens and orchards of Evesham

Background imagePickers Collection: Tea pickers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop picking in Kent

Hop picking in Kent. Date: circa 1910

Background imagePickers Collection: Potato Pickers 1930S

Potato Pickers 1930S
Picking potatoes on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Background imagePickers Collection: Fruit Pickers

Fruit Pickers
Three smart young men in waistcoats, scything, hoeing and picking fruit, with an older man supervising them, on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Background imagePickers Collection: Grape Pickers 1930S

Grape Pickers 1930S
Grape pickers in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Background imagePickers Collection: Old Women Grape Pickers

Old Women Grape Pickers
French peasant women harvesting grapes in the Champagne region, France. Date: early 1930s

Background imagePickers Collection: Grape Pickers in Love

Grape Pickers in Love
A young couple laden with baskets of freshly picked grapes, looking very happy and in love, Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Background imagePickers Collection: Co-operative Wholesale Societies - Women Picking Tea

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

Background imagePickers Collection: Sorting and weighing tea leaves - Sri Lanka

Sorting and weighing tea leaves - Sri Lanka
Sorting and weighing tea leaves at the Great Western Tea Factory - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1920s

Background imagePickers Collection: Borracheiros - Madeira, Portugal

Borracheiros - Madeira, Portugal
Madeira, Portugal - wine pickers ( Borracheiros)

Background imagePickers Collection: Hop picking - home pickers

Hop picking - home pickers. Date: 1906

Background imagePickers Collection: Unidentified man (Middle East?) with mother and children

Unidentified man (Middle East?) with mother and children with fruit pickers in background

Background imagePickers Collection: Interior of a shack occupied by berry pickers. Anne Arundel

Interior of a shack occupied by berry pickers. Anne Arundel County. Maryland. Courtesy of Maryland Child Labor Committee. Location: Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Date ca. 1909?

Background imagePickers Collection: The berry pickers

The berry pickers. Date c1892 Apr. 8

Background imagePickers Collection: Caravan of striking cotton pickers south of Tulare, Californ

Caravan of striking cotton pickers south of Tulare, California. Date 1933 Oct

Background imagePickers Collection: Migrant potato pickers. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, Californi

Migrant potato pickers. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1. Date 1939 Sept

Background imagePickers Collection: Shacks condemned by Board of Health, formerly (?) occupied b

Shacks condemned by Board of Health, formerly (?) occupied by migrant workers and pickers, Belle Glade, Fla. Photograph shows automobiles. Date 1941 Jan.?

Background imagePickers Collection: Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Children in large private bean pickers camp. Pickers came from many states, from Oklahoma to North Dakota. Date 1939 Aug

Background imagePickers Collection: Cotton pickers with knee pads, Lehi, Arkansas

Cotton pickers with knee pads, Lehi, Arkansas. Date 1938 Sept

Background imagePickers Collection: The flower farmers of Britain 1938

The flower farmers of Britain 1938
Picking the blooms at Rosenvale, Penzance, where the early spring flowers are grown extensively in greenhouses. Most of the Scilly Isles are employed in the flower industry

Background imagePickers Collection: Country Women in the Lake Maggiore Region of Italy

Country Women in the Lake Maggiore Region of Italy
Country ( Peasant ) Women in the Lake Maggiore Region of Italy, holding baskets of fruit they have jusat picked from the plants in the background. Date: circa 1910s

Background imagePickers Collection: Bilberry Pickers

Bilberry Pickers
A woman wearing spectacles picking bilberries with a girl with short blonde hair. Date: 1950s

Background imagePickers Collection: Bilberry Pickers

Bilberry Pickers
An old man and a little boy picking bilberries on Llandegla Moors, Denbighshire, Wales. Date: 1960s

Background imagePickers Collection: French Fruit Pickers

French Fruit Pickers
French girls picking fruit with a ladder up a tree, in an unspecified region of France. Date: 1930s

Background imagePickers Collection: Tobacco Fields, Cuba

Tobacco Fields, Cuba

Background imagePickers Collection: Faroe Islands, Denmark - Wedding Party & Mussel Gatherers

Faroe Islands, Denmark - Wedding Party & Mussel Gatherers
Mussel pickers (with large pots on their back) at Skuo, Faroe Islands, Denmark and a large wedding party (top) also on the Faroe Islands



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