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Daffodil FieldA woman picking daffodils in a field at Hale, Lancashire, England. Date: 1950s
Girl Picking ApplesA young woman picking apples in an orchard in Essex, England. Date: July 1963
French Fruit PickersFrench girls picking fruit with a ladder up a tree, in an unspecified region of France. Date: 1930s
Strawberry FieldsPeople (including a little girl with plaited hair), picking strawberries in a field. Date: 1990
Russian Tea PlantationWorkers on a tea plantation at Chakva, near Batumi, Georgia, Caucasus, Russia. Date: 1938
Child picking fruit. Artist: Anon. A child picking an apple from a tree Date: 1926
Five children picking blackberries. 1880
Girl picking fruit. Artist: Anon. A girl picking fruit Date: 1926
Two soldiers in a trench during WW1Two soldiers in a trench during the First World War. The officer, new at his job, is asking whether the enemy are very close
Growing rhubarbA lady gardener pictured with an impressive harvest of rhubarb. The fruit bushes behind her look healthy too. c.1945
Picking Tea Leaves - Kobe, Japan Date: circa 1933
First crocuses of the year in St. James Park, 1948An ever vigilant park keeper in St. Jamess Park, London, strides up to check children who are picking all the crocus flowers just beginning to show in February 1948. 1948
Picking Flowers - Cote d Azur, FranceWoman picking Flowers on the Cote d Azur, France. She is wearing an interestingly-patterned flat straw sunhat. Date: circa 1910s
Picking violets on the Cote d Azur, FranceFrench Women picking violets on the Cote d Azur, France Date: circa 1920s
Children blackberrying. Picking blackberries in the countryside. Unattributed illustration Date: circa 1906
Sierra Leone - Picking Pine Kernels Date: circa 1905
Elephant Transport C1920An elephant used for transport, picking its way up some steps at Sanchi, India. Date: 1918
Two girls picking apples from a tree. 1880
Children Pick ApplesThree children gathering apples as they fall from the branch of the tree. Date: 1921
Mechanized Hop PickingMechanized hop picking in progress. Date: 1952
Picking Fruit in AmericaGirls and boys gathering berries in America. Date: 1874
Hawthorn & SecateursThe Hawthorn shrinks from the secateurs Date: 1847
Newgate / Oakum-PickingA convict, in his cell, oakum- picking. Date: 1873
Picking grapesYoung sicilian lady picking grapes ready to make into wine
Picking tobacco, Montpellier, JamaicaWorkers in a field, picking tobacco, in Montpellier, Jamaica
Two workers picking cocoa pods, JamaicaTwo workers picking cocoa pods in Jamaica
Double page spread in a diary for 20-25 AprilA double page spread in a young persons diary for 20-25 April. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event
Double page spread in a diary for 12-17 AugustA double page spread in a young persons diary for 12-17 August. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event
Her Treasure by Muriel DawsonA little girl in a smart, matching green coat and hat holds some tiny flowers aloft, found during a walk on a winters day
Little Rosebuds by Muriel DawsonA jolly little girl wearing a pink dress picks tiny pink rosebuds from a hanging branch
Picking Crocii by Muriel DawsonA little boy bends down in a spring meadow to pick a yellow crocus
Young men at Salvation Army Training CentreA group of six young men picking apples in an orchard. The location is a Salvation Army Training Centre preparing them for overseas duties with the organisation
Man holding two bunches of white grapesA man in a vineyard, holding two large bunches of white grapes which he has just picked
Buttercup and Daisies by Muriel DawsonCharming depiction of a small child or toddler picking daisies and buttercups in a meadow
Old women picking oakum in a Casual WardThe womens casual ward (vagrants ward) of a workhouse, thought to be at Lambeth, south London. Three women in workhouse uniform sit on benches
A Sudan Cotton FieldEmpire Marketing Board poster showing indigeonous workers picking cotton in a field in the Sudan, while their village can be seen some way in the background
Blackberry time / childrens bookTwo children picking blackberries in the Summer
Tobacco Fields, Cuba
Faroe Islands, Denmark - Wedding Party & Mussel GatherersMussel pickers (with large pots on their back) at Skuo, Faroe Islands, Denmark and a large wedding party (top) also on the Faroe Islands
Sri Lanka - Picking and weighing teaPicking and weighing Green Tea in Sri Lanka
Seville Orange Picking - Seville, Spain. Seville oranges are too bitter for modern tastes, and are therefore commonly used to make marmalade
Autumn painted by Pauline BaynesA boy and a girl in the Elizabethan era pictured picking blackberries while in the background, horsemen are hunting a stag
Tobacco Pickers - BulgariaWomen pick tobacco in Bulgaria
Ear Picker - IndiaA wonderful postcard depicting an Indian ear picker and client in Bombay (Mumbai)
Woman from North Central PortugalA woman from North Central Portugal - Beira Alta, shown reclining in a field, holding a yellow flower and smiling. She wears a red and black check shirt
Picking Jasmine - Grasse, FrancePicking Jasmine at Grasse, France
Poster depicting tea picking in CeylonPoster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting women picking tea in Ceylon
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh - IndiaScene in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts