Potato Collection (page 3)

Boys Club potato peeling 1931
Many hands make light work of peeling potatos

Crowded out
A potato coster laments the progress in motorised traffic and predicts the future obsolesence of horse drawn vehicles. The caption reads - Stage Struck coster (to his dark coloured donkey)

Peasants seizing potato crop, Ireland
Peasants seize the potato crop of an evicted tenant near Tralee, Kerry, in Ireland. Men, women and children dig for the unharvested potatoes with shovels, spades and their bare hands

Roofless cabin during evictions in Ireland
Rear view of a couple of gentlemen and two grieving women near the cabin of Pat MacNamara which has been tumbled by levellers

Jersey Potato Ketch
Potato ketch of the island of Jersey

Potato Trader
Selling New Potatoes from a barrow, house to house. Here she is outside the Middlesex Hospital

Allotment Potato Crop
A man in a flat cap proudly harvests his splendid potato crop from his allotment

Potato Plant 19C
Potato plant

Parmentier and Potato
French agriculturist Antoine PARMENTIER presents a potato to Louis XVI; some laughed, but the king placed a shoot in his buttonhole in recognition of Parmentiers achievement

Scavengers / 1919
Mounted police drive off scavengers from the potato fields during the terrible shortages that followed the war

Australian Soldier
A cheerful Australian soldier peeling a potato (?) with a rather large knife

Captain Boycott thanks labourers for help with harvesting his potato crop, a harvest which had been boycotted by his tennants due to the evictions

German Potato Doctors
Potatoes have their own doctors in Germany, where a special department exists for the inspection of diseases. Research is instituted to find a cure for any such diseases

Baked Potato Man
the Baked Potato Man

Plants / Solanum Tuberosum
POTATO (FR : pomme de terre)

Pressing Grapes by Hand
In Bordeaux, France at this time they crushed grapes by hand using a long handled tool with 3 spokes (possibly like a potato masher) to extract the juice

Charles De L ecluse
CHARLES DE L ECLUSE (Latin: Carolus Clusius) French/Dutch naturalist; credited with introducing the potato to Europe

Aa Parmentier / French Cd
ANTOINE-AUGUSTIN PARMENTIER introduces the potato to France, 1785

Beeton Vegetables
Potato croquettes - spinach & eggs - asparagus - cauliflower - wafer potatoes - mushrooms - peas - French beans - stuffed tomatoes - carrots

Veg as Human 6 1900
The Vegetable Wedding No.6: the family

Discovering the Potato
Spanish conquistadors in South America are introduced to the potato by the inhabitants of Peru and Chile

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