Picks Collection

China - Cultural Revolution Poster - Chairman Mao
The Many accomplish great things - Cultural Revolution poster from the Peoples Republic of China, featuring happy workers heading out to work, many holding aloft the Little Red Book

Raphael Kirchner - Art Nouveau Girl playing the harp from the Greek Virgins postcard series. Date: 1900

Woman in a Kent Garden
A Kentish Garden A woman picks flowers from large herbaceous borders in a typical English garden

Dutch Girl & Tulips
A Dutch girl in traditional dress picks tulips near a canal, with the obligatory windmill and barge in view

Girl Picks Flowers C1887
A girl picks some rather wild flowers growing in a country garden

Victorian Greeting Card - The Pickpocket
Two penguins out for a stroll whilst a sparrow picks a pocket. Date: circa 1890

Mine! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a blue dress picks some flowers through a fence. Date: 1936

Hardy Patent Pick Co. mining tools 1890s
Selection of solid steel mining hand tools made by Hardy Patent Pick Co, in Sheffield. Date: 1890s

Deux Amis
A group portrait sketch of two friends, after having enjoyed a light meal, one has his arm over the other's shoulder as he picks his teeth. Date: circa 1901

Garden Girl
A portrait painting of a girl, wearing a green dress and head covering, standing amongst some tall flowering plants, as she picks them. Date: circa 1916

Middleton, Sunderland goalkeeper, during match
Sunderland goalkeeper Middleton picks the football out of the net after Arsenal's Davidson scores Date: 1946

Two men watch with interest as a lady picks roses Date: 1872

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

Cupid picks up his matchlock musket. Assumes his firelock. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Nelson Gardiner after an illustration by Princess Elizabeth from Thomas Parks Cupid Turned

Budleigh Salterton, Devon - viewed from the West - a steamer has pulled in (very) close to the shore to pick up some day trippers. Date: circa 1909

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

Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire
circa 1910s

GIRL PICKS FLOWERS C1890
A little girl in a field, holding some daffodils which she has picked. Date: circa 1890

EVE AS SERPENT COSTUME
Travesti costume by Redfern in which Eve is depicted as the serpent in a green dress with a snakes-head headdress. She sinfully picks an apple. Date: 1913

LILY / VALLEY FOR MAMA
A little girl picks lily-of- the-valley for her mother during the month of May. Date: 1931

PARISIENNE SWINGS C. 1810
While her friend picks cherries, a Parisienne swings from a branch, displaying her voluminous underwear Date: circa 1810

GIRL PICKS TULIPS
A girl picking tulips Date: circa 1880

Japanese Scene - Harvesting rice in a paddy field. Date: circa 1909

Tunisia - Metlaoui - Phosphate Society Mines of Sfax-Gafsa - unloading the wagns. Date: circa 1910s

Adam and Eve - Garden of Eden - The First Love. Eve takes of bite out of the forbidden fruit, whilst her temptor (the serpent) also tucks in to a shiny fruit. Date: circa 1910s

Findings Keeping by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a blue dress picks - and keeps - some tiny daffodils

Dryope into Tree
Dryope, wife of Andraemon, is gathering flowers when she unwittingly picks one that is actually the nymph Lotis, in disguise, who angrily turns poor Dryope into a tree

Mayan Myth / Xquiq
Popol Vuh, an ancient Mayan manuscript. Princess Xquiq (Blood) picks a gourd from the forbidden tree. It is actually the head of Hunhun- Apu, who impregnates her

Depiction of Summer 1903
A depiction of Summer showing a woman wearing a reform style tunic dress with uncorseted waistline. She picks cornflowers from a cornfield to decorate her straw hat

Elegant lady in a grand country garden picks roses Date: circa 1890s

Yes, no - Yes, no - I don t care anyway! A sweet little girl slowly removes the petals from a daisy to check if her true love shares her feelings....!! Date: 1931

Elephant piling Teak - Myanmar. Date: circa 1910s

Japanese Geisha examining some plants - studio photographic portrait (this same backdrop can be seen in a number of Geisha photographic studies). Date: circa 1902

A Womans Keepsake by Alfred Parsons (1847-1920), engraved by E Schladitz (dates unknown). Date: 1884

Women at birthday party in factory, Warrington
Women enjoying a birthday party in a Warrington factory. One young woman picks her teeth. Date: circa 1980

In the dim and speculative future. Prime Minister Asquith, dressed as a young maiden picks the petals from a daisy, thinking, This year - next year - sometime - !!

Rene Fraser gathering flowers

Partly finished battlefield road at Flanders 1917
Second Battle of Flanders: Troops in the front are capturing positions and beating off counter attacks night and day. While the temporary lulls of infantry fighting between each thrust forward

Italian postcard, infantrymens dugout, WW1
Italian postcard depicting La Casa del Fante (the home of the infantry) during the First World War. The men are lying asleep in their dugout, their spades and picks leaning up against a post

Gathering wild vegetables - India
Gathering wild vegetables (or plants, flowers or herbs) - India. Date: circa 1910s

Colombia - Picking and transporting bananas, en route for export to Europe. Date: circa 1910s

Military Father disarmed by daughters generous reply
Disarmed. " Why do you pick those flowers" " To give to you." Date: 1898

Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentlemans trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903

Gold Prospecting party testing the reef, South Africa Date: 1904

Pioneer Regiment entrenching in France - WWI
A Pioneer Regiment - British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks - dig trenches on the Western Front - WWI. Date: circa 1915

Three lobster soldiers, two with picks chopping up the ground and the third is standing on the wall of a fort. Date 1904 or 1905

A reflection on the parent. Reflection in looking glass shows the father who had been picking nuts but refused to be photographed. He is out of work

Radio-Control Tortoise
A testing time for Toddle the tortoise. The aerial picks up a signal and makes the arm holding the lettuce (and Toddle!) swing left or right. Date: 1960s

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