Pickers Collection

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

Hop Picking into Bins
Kent hop pickers picking into bins

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

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California. Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as Migrant

Hop Picking in Kent - Boughton District Date: 1907

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

Strawberry Pickers

Hop Pickers 1900
A group of Kentish hop pickers

Hop Pickers Tally Off
Kent hop pickers " tallying off"

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

Kent Hop Pickers
Hop-pickers in Kent collect their pay

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

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

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

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

Tea plantation in Ceylon / Sri Lanka - Victorian period

Hop pickers in Kent - Victorian period

Hop Picking Kent Victorian period

Kent Hop Pickers early 1900s

Picking Tea - Japan. Date: circa 1910s

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

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

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

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

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

Hop-picking season in Kent 1901
Summer months were very popular for going to Kent for the annual hop-picking season. People would come from miles around to spend the summer months sleeping in primitive camps for two or three weeks

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

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

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

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

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

Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire
circa 1910s

Stylized Grape Pickers

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

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

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

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

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

Easter Lily Field in Bloom, Bermuda. Commercial production of bulbs initially started in Bermuda in 1853 and as late as the 1890s, Bermuda controlled 90% of the lily market in the United States

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

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

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

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

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

Hop Pickers at Work
A set of hop pickers at work

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

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

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