Picking Collection (page 3)

Manchester and Blackpool Express picking up water while running at high speed, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

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

Comic postcard, Man, girlfriend and cow Date: 20th century

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

Late 19th century photograph: Workers picking tea, tea plantation, India or Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Plantation workers picking tea, India or Ceylon, Sri Lanka
Vintage 19th century photograph:large group of plantation workers picking tea, India or Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Picking tea, Ceylon or India, c1880 s

c. 1880s Japan - picking tea

Comic postcard, man, girlfriend and goat Date: 20th century

Christmastime
Picking holly in the snow. Artist: Annie French and some extra text

Picking shellfish off the bottom of the sea, Japan, late 19th century

c. 1880s Japan - picking shellfish on the shore
c.1880s Japan - picking shellfish on the shore

Farm workers picking tea, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Elephant at Work
A working elephant picking up timber with his trunk. Artist: Charles Kingsley Cook Date: 1907

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

Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19

Trades in Regency England. Carpet weaving, hog feeding
Trades in Regency England. Carpet weaver at a loom in Wilton 16, pig farmer feeding hogs in Hampshire 17, and women knitting and embroidering with needles made in Chichester 18

Follaton House, seat of Stanley Carey, Totnes Devon. Built by the architect George Stanley Repton in 1826. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1827

Gathering the leaves of the tea plant, China. (2 of 4) Date: 1832

Tea gathering in Japan. Date: 1881

Advertisement for Stones Ginger Wine. Date: 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Sri Lanka
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Ceylon Sri Lanka. 1893

Where the mushrooms grow
Young girl picking mushrooms. Artist: Lilian A Govey Date: circa 1910

September, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

October, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Chap delighted with his parcel (Peak Freans Biscuit Box!)
A Young chap delighted to discover a parcel has arrived for him, containing a Peak Freans Biscuit Box! (or so says the hand-written message!!) Date: circa 1900s

Victorian silk birthday card, Girl picking Roses. 19th century

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

Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s

Children picking blackberries
Children picking (and sampling) blackberries c. 1910

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

Malay man gathering bread from tree, South East Asia
Malay man gathering bread from a tree, in the form of jackfruit, Malay States, South East Asia (then part of the British Empire, now Malaysia). Date: 1922

Blackberry picking 1880
A woman on the edge of a field picking wild blackberries. circa 1880

Gathering wood violets 1872
Two young women gathering wood violets, sweet scent of this flower was popular in Victorian times and was used in sweets and baked goods. Date: 1872

Gathering cowslips 1872
Two young girls picking wild cowslips from the woods. Date: 1872

Gathering blackberries 1872
Victorian women and a girl picking blackberries from a blackberry bush. Date: 1872

The Hop-Garland. 19th century

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

Vintage in Medoc: Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte 1871
Vineyards of Chateau Lafitte. 1871

Coming of Autumn 1906
Woman picking apples while standing on a stepladder. Date: 1906

Postcard booklet, little child sitting on cotton, USA
Postcard booklet, little child sitting on a pile of cotton, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Carte de Visite - Fruit Picking in an orchard. circa 1890

German print - Four Seasons - Summer
German print - Four Seasons - children picking fruit in a summer orchard. 19th century

Gathering wild flowers, 1890s
Woman gathering wild flowers in a country meadow, 1890s Date: 1890s

Woman gathering wild flowers, 1890s
A lady gathering wild flowers in a meadow, 1890s Date: 1890s

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