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Two children playing in their garden with their dollyTwo French children playing in their garden with their dolly Date: circa 1890s
Fairies in a field on a Christmas and New Year cardFairies and goblins in a field on a Christmas and New Year card -- Harvest Time. Date: circa 1890s
Wheelbarrow and tools on a cutout greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
She Was Only a Gardeners Daughter" She was only a gardeners daughter, but she knew how to handle a rake." A gaudily-depicted woman of humble origins seduces a " rake" - a womanising young man. 1928
Folk in the traditional costume of Alsace Lorraine Date: circa 1910s
Norway - Hay-Drying on racksHay-Drying on racks in Norway. Date: circa 1910s
Mayford School, Woking - Agricultural TrainingMayford School, near Woking, Surrey. Boys in a large field work with fork, rake and plough. A horse pulls a plough tended by a man and boy. Date: circa 1930
Cadburys Happy Families - Mr CreamCadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mr Cream the Farmer. circa 1950
Two men playing draughts - The Veteran Defeated. circa 1820
Prince Henry of Wales - later Duke of GloucesterPrince Henry of Wales, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) sweeping leaves with a childs besom broom. He also has a miniature rake and wheelbarrow. Date: circa 1903
Horse Drawn Rake - a view of a man sitting on a rake behind a horse in a field. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s
Three young children at the seaside - kitsch postcard Date: 1909
Chinese Actors holding up masks, a rake and a broomA Chinese Actor and Actress in a posed studio portrait holding up masks in one hand and a rake and broom in the other. Date: circa 1908
Chinese country boy with rake and laden backpack. Date: circa 1910s
French Happy Families - FarmerFrench Happy Families - La Famille Courtepaille, Grandmother, Farmer. early 20th century
Birthday card for a 5th BirthdayA beautiful Birthday card for a 5th Birthday - Two 5-year-olds doing a spot of gardening. The caption reads: Because you re five years old to-day, I send this little card to say
Old Maid card - The Rake. circa 1940s
St Peters Orphanage, Isle of Thanet, EssexThe garden of St Peters Orphanage, Isle of Thanet. A group of women sit on the grass, one in a deckchair. Nearby, a girl holds a rake. Date: circa 1905
Robert Beau FeildingROBERT FEILDING (spelt thus) known as Beau Feilding; soldier, rake, bully, bigamist, converted to Catholicism to whose priests he had much to confess. Date: 1651 - 1712
Cartoon, They are giving their blood, WW1" While the businessmen rake in the cash, the soldiers are paying with their blood" 1916
Folklore / Rake ManLE MONSIEUR DE L ORME RATEAU (The Gentleman of the elm-tree of the Rake) a figure seen in Berry, central France, dressed in smart clothes but carrying a rake, none knows why Date: 1851
Greetings telegram, Golden Wedding anniversary, with a border design by Eric Fraser. Date: circa 1950s
Cat in wheelbarrow on a New Year cardWhite cat in a pink wheelbarrow on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Illustration, haymaking with a horse-drawn cutter and a dog alongside. Date: 1930
Anglo Saxon agriculture.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798
The return of the flower fairies.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris
Japanese boy scouts on outdoor activityJapanese boy scouts on an outdoor activity, tidying up a grassy area
Vesta Tilley as Algy, the Piccadilly JohnnyVesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations
Women workers at Sandy Lodge golf courseThe war-time golf course - women workers tending a bent-covered sandhill at Sandy Lodge golf course at Northwood where women and boys were supplying most of the labour. Date: 1916
Little girl at harvest time by Muriel DawsonA little girl helping out in the fields at harvest time, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s
Elizabeth Ltd Clothing advertisement, 1916Advertisement for Elizabeth Ltd of South Molton Street, London featuring an illustration of a picturesque old English floral smock - just the thing to wear while bringing in the harvest when the men
War Time in the Country in SilhouetteA page of three silhouettes depicting life in the British countryside during the First World War. The top picture shows a man reading out the newspaper and official news to eager neighbours
Silhouette Calendar -- July, Haymaking. Showing a girl with a doll watching two boys heading off with a pitchfork and a rake. Date: 20th century
Bernerhaus, Grindelwald, Switzerland. Date: circa 1905
China - Chinese Farmers (one v. old) from the Ningpo DistrictChina - Chinese Farmers (one v.old) from the Ningpo District. Card produced by the United Methodist Free Churches: Home and Foreign Missions. Date: 1905
Regional Costume of Savoie, France - Chatel and Chambery Rhone-Alpes region in southeastern France. Date: circa 1910s
Meeting at the Crossroads - Slavonia, CroatiaPeasant folk meet for a chat at the Crossroads in Slavonia, a historical region in eastern Croatia. Date: circa 1917
Japan - Japanese woman with rake and basket Date: circa 1910
Swiss agricultrual workers take a break from haymaking and scything and share a swift tipple. Date: circa 1910s
Two Rural Russian Country Girls pose with a sheaf of cornTwo Rural Russian Country Girls outside the entrance to a large barn, pose with a Sheaf of corn. Date: circa 1905
Woman descending a mountain path - SwitzerlandWoman descending amountain path with a large bundle of hay balanced on her head. Date: circa 1910s
Tractor driver and mowerPeople You See. Tractor driver and mower. From Teddy Bear (22 July (year unknown))
Choice Spirit & BuckA buck : a dissipated & dishevelled looking man of fashion with a cudgel tucked under his arm & a choice spirit in a bicorne hat. Date: 1790
Roman Husband & Wife" The wife & husband equally conspire, To work by night & rake the winter fire; He sharpens torches in the glim ring room
Improved buckeye, with table rake reaper
Victorian children at harvest timeSix Victorian children having fun at harvest time. (4 of 6) Date: 19th century
The rakes progress
Blanch BlowerModern haymaking on a British farm, showing a close-up of the rotary rake and the intake of the Blanch Blower, a device for collecting hay after cutting. Date: 1960s
