Sweet Collection (#23)

Theobroma cacao, cocoa
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Zea mays, maize
This large cultivated grass called maize or sweet corn is an important cereal. Grain is ground for flour as well as forming a table vegetable, the husks are used as fuel & the leaves for cattle fodder

Some of the sweets beloved of the native
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge 1858-1949. 180 x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952

Honeycomb of Apis sp. honeybee
A close-up of the structure of a the honeycomb made by a colony of honeybees

Sweet little girl with Christmas trees
A young girl holds two miniature Christmas trees. Date: c. 1910

Girl iceskating
A little girl dressed in a pink coat and matching hat, skates along while holding a sprig of holly. Date: c. 1910

Valentines card
Litle girl attempts to wake up her sweetheart and ask him to be her valentine. Date: c. 1920

Sweet scabious Date: Early 20th Century

Two sweet children, one in a red hooded cape, one a white snow suit, carry mistletoe, holly and a wreath, wishing one and all a bright and happy Christmas. c. 1910

Adorable baby in woollen hat and cardigan
Baby sitting on table wearing a woollen hat and cardigan. 1900

A sweet little girl wearing a wide-brimmed hat c. 1910

Blind spinning girl - Rangoon - Kemmendine School for the Blind I asked if the girls would let me take their pictures and the matron spread a mat under a tree

Nursery rhyme illustration. From Treasure (artwork dated 22 June)

Cute Relaxed Baby
A sweet baby with its hands behind its head smiles cheekily Date: 1960s

Sweet potato or yam with plant growing in the background. Date between 1800 and 1860

Home, sweet homeski!. Illustration shows a tattered, but happy, Russian army returning home after the end of the war with Japan; in the background, the rising sun of Japan is visible on the horizon

A fair Puritan

Miss Peace of the Hague: Ach! I blow in so sweet and it comes out so awful!. Illustration shows the angel of peace sitting on a rocky ledge

Valentines Postcard - Chef makes Sweet Hearts Lets be Sweet hearts together. Date: 1907

Sweet cider. Date c1890 Nov. 22. Sweet cider. Date c1890 Nov. 22

House at sunset
Bold, graphic style illustration of a small house of cottage pictured in silhouette, surrounded by trees and set against a vivid orange sky. Date: c.1930s

A Grey and a Chesnut horse
Reproduction of a painting of a Grey and a Chesnut horse, set within a pale green frame containing horseshoe motifs. Date: circa 1910s

Young couple in love - " Seems to me I ve always loved you!" Date: 1918

Rough and ready Pressed, sweet fine cut Cavendish tobaco, manufactured No. 2 Wall, 213 & 215 Duane Streets, New York. Print shows tobacco label with illustration of Zachary Taylor directing Capt

Dude sweet music, superb costumes. Date 189-?

Hana-strobel? acornus calamus, sweet flag. Date 187-

Sweet! Sweet!. Illustration shows a hand labeled Protective Tariff League sprinkling salt from a bag labeled Sophistry Salt onto the tail feathers of a red, white, and blue bird labeled First Voter

Valentines card with cute children
A little girl holding up a red heart gazes admiringly at a boy on a merry-go-round zebra ride, while he looks winningly back at her. The slogan is take a ride and win a heart. Date: C.1930

Pretty Moscow beauty
Pretty Moscovite beauty - with a certain wicked look to her expression. Date: 1914

British Legion Childrens Christmas Party, Walton, Essex

Cute doggy Valentine card
A sweet card for St Valentines Day featuring two dogs, one looking very dapper in cap and silver-starred collar, one in a dog house - To My Valentine

Dolls Dinner
Two dolls enjoying dinner together. Date: circa 1900

Chivers Jellies - recipe booklet
Chivers Jellies - the cover of a little recipe booklet entitled Firm Favourites - pictured is a strawberry meringue jelly in a glass pie dish Date: circa 1930s

Entangled - two lovers play with wool
Entangled - two lovers play with a ball of wool. Date: mid 19th century

Bedtime by Molly Benatar
Charming illustration to accompany a short poem about bedtime, showing sweet children in their pyjamas making their way to bed

Three Chimneysweeps
Three very young chimneysweeps in the United States of America Date: 1904

Girl eating sweets

Cholon, Vietnam - Confectionary seller
A street sweet seller - selling his wares at Cholon, the Chinese district of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Date: circa 1920s

1960s sweetshop in Finland
Shop selling sweets and white bread, Borga, Finland, 1960s. Date: 1960s

Birthday card with violets, lily of the valley and daffodils
Sweet Thoughts and Birthday Wishes: a birthday card with a bunch of violets, daffodils and lily of the valley. Date: circa 1930s

Kissing his daughter goodbye
I love a lassie - a sailor bids a fond farewell to his daughter in this touchingly sentimental card. Date: 1917

Sailor with his daughter
A jolly Royal Navy sailor with his young daughter peeking over his shoulder. She is holding (and waving) a small white ensign flag

Italian Kitch Postcard (1 / 3)
Sweet Memories - Italian kitsch postcard of a baby in a basket suspended between the topmost branches of two trees, looking out to sea. Date: 1918

Meadowsweet is a common fen plant, normally found growing amongst other tall herbs. From June to October it is covered in clumps of small, sweet- smelling white flowers. Date: 1930s

Good Dog - A terrier in seriously cute pose 1933

Egypt - Alexandria - Sugar Cane and Sweet Vendor Date: 1938

Lovers chat using a string telephone
A courting couple chat over the telephone, while cupid listens in. The dapper gentleman attributes his robust health to the taking of Enos fruit salt

Young girl in pretty white dress
Unnamed young girl in pretty white dress, standing by a white armchair with bobbled scrolling on the turned arms and legs. Date: circa 1903

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