Pickers Gallery

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven childre

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 Mother. 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 Mother

© Mary Evans / Library of Congress

Easter Lily Field in Bloom, Bermuda

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! Date: circa 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Women picking fruit in Kent during World War One, 1916

Female fruit-pickers in the fruit gardens and orchards of Evesham, picking strawberries and gooseberries to be made into jam for British troops; just one of the traditionally male roles taken over by women during the First World War.
1916

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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