Potatoes Collection (page 3)

Bringing home some jumbo spuds
A farmer brings home a splendid crop of giant potatoes.... Date: circa 1910s

Hand-Planting Potatoes
Young and old planting potatoes by hand on a farm in Suffolk, England. Date: 1950s

Potato Pickers 1930S
Picking potatoes on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Field of Crops
A field with lines of crops possibly potatoes. Date: late 1960s

Harvesting Potatoes
Harvesting potatoes with a horse-drawn reaper on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Farmer on his Tractor
A farmer harvesting potatoes on his tractor. Date: early 1930s

Taft on the Campaign Trail in Colorado, USA - Giant Veg
William Howard Taft (18571930), on the Campaign Trail in Colorado, USA - the card is entitled Prosperity due to the funny addition of piles of exaggerated-size vegetables

Boy peeling potatoes

Columbus at the court of Barcelona. Christopher Columbus standing before the King and Queen of Spain, with Indians from the New World, Feb. 1493. Date 1893

Soldiers posing for a photo with a box of potatoes. France

Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Near Shawboro, North Carolina. Date 1940 July

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested. Date 1940 Oct

Smiling woman preparing a wholesome feast
A woman wearing a chequered apron and broad smile, leans over the stove and peels potatoes for the roast dinner she is preparing. 1937

A crop of vegetables - Western Canada
A fine food crop from Western Canada - including pumpkins, corn, onions, potatoes, squash, sunflower and various other root vegetables. Date: circa 1907

Winter Vegetables
Mixed winter vegetables : Potatoes, turnips and parsnips. Date: 1980

Welsh Potato Sacks
Owing to the mild, wet winters in Rhossili, in the Gower Penninsula, Glamorgan, Wales, this district is noted for its new potatoes. Here the men weigh and sack the potatoes. Date: 1950s

Dried Foods
Instant, dried and powder foods, such as mashed potatoes, soup and stuffing. Date: early 1980s

COUCH POTATO FAMILY
A lazy family of Couch Potatoes, lounging on the sofa together watching TV with their happy dog and obligatory swirly carpet! Date: 1981

Testing Seed Potatoes
A man and woman testing seed potatoes, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Doggy Potato Seller
A doggy vendor with a basket of potatoes over one paw! Date: early 1930s

Cakes with Dad
Children scoffing a large chocolate cake with their Dad on a hideous chocolate coloured sofa! Date: 1981

Ajaccio - Corsica, France
A street stall selling vegetables on a corner of Napoleon Way ( Cours Napoleon ) at Ajaccio - Corsica, France Date: circa 1910s

Potatoes, Lancashire
Lifting potatoes at Rainhill, Lancashire, using a tractor Date: 1960

Tunisian Street Scene - Sfax
The Native Quarter - Sfax, Tunisia. A general street scene

Soldiers preparing a meal 1917
Soldiers preparing a meal on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

Llwynypia Hospital, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales
A view of Llwynypia Hospital at Llwynypia near Pontypridd in the Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales. A field of potatoes can be seen at the right

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)

The General Strike - peeling potatoes in Hyde Park
A Snap-Shot of Striketime Society: Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper and Lady Carmichael-Anstruther peeling potatoes in Hyde Park. Front cover of The Sketch emergency issue produced during the General Strike

Sailors carrying potatoes onto HMS Coventry, Second World
Photograph showing the seamen of HMS Coventry carrying sacks of potatoes onto their ship, as it is refitted at a British dockyard in 1940. HMS Coventry was an anti-aircraft cruiser of 4290 tons

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

German woman and her daily ration, Berlin, 1945
Photograph showing a German woman in Berlin holding her daily ration: a small piece of bread, a few carrots and some dehydrated potatoes, August 1945

Seasons / June / Potatoes
Digging up potatoes

PLANTING IRISH TATIES
A little girl helps a couple, perhaps her grandfather and mother, to plant taties (potatoes) on a four acre farm in Eire (Ireland)

Potatoes for Supper
Due to rationing, wartime meals could be rather predictable. This boys grandmother is dishing up boiled potatoes for supper - again

Old Gipsy Woman
An old gipsy woman grins as she serves up potatoes and cabbage (?) from a boiling cauldron

Peeling Potatoes
German housewife peeling potatoes

Kitchen Duties
Cookhouse fatigue : soldiers are required to help with kitchen duties - peeling potatoes and carrying meat from the depot to the kitchens

Vegetable Dishes
Celery - leeks - seakale - sprouts - baked potatoes - parsnips - boiled potatoes - artichokes - cabbage - braised onions

Peeling Potatoes at Camp
Boys peeling potatoes at a Harvest camp at Great Easton, Leicestershire

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

Rolling Potatoes / C. 1950
A tractor rolling potatoes in Cheshire

Lifting Potatoes / 1960S
A close up of someone lifting potatoes with a fork

Selling Hot Potatoes
A woman wearing a shawl cooks potatoes to sell them hot on the street; a man digs in his pocket for some coins while a boy warms his hands on the side of the portable stove

Girl Selling Potatoes
Girl selling potatoes, full weight

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

Cries O London / Potatoes
New potatoess A woman selling new potatoes door-to-door from her barrow

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