Vegetable Collection (page 12)

Cartoon, Growing vegetables, WW1
Cartoon, Growing vegetables. Two fashionable young women inspect a vegetable garden, and discuss the use of nitrate as a fertilizer -- the same stuff they use to make beauty spots! Date: 1917

Fairies of the Garden - The Scarlet Runner. 1903

Caricature, Lord Salisbury and W E Gladstone, rival political leaders -- Lord Salisbury eats the leek (representing a parliamentary amendment). 1881

Dental advert, Pure Vegetable Cement
Dental advert, James Penneys Pure Vegetable Cement, for stopping tender teeth. 1874

Humanised vegetable chef on a Christmas card, holding up an iced cake, by Herman Rothe. Date: circa 1880s

Humanised vegetable couple on a Christmas card, by Herman Rothe. Date: circa 1880s

Humanised cabbage on a Christmas card, taking a bow, by Herman Rothe. Date: circa 1880s

Humanised parsnip on a Christmas card, removing his top hat and taking a bow, by Herman Rothe. Date: circa 1880s

Humanised potato on a Christmas card, with envelope, hat and pink umbrella, by Herman Rothe. Date: circa 1880s

Certificate from Veg. Products Committee for Naval Supply
Certificate Christmas 1917. To Mr. Lade of Eastbourne of the Vegetable Products Committee for Naval Supply, from the Officers and Men of the Grand Fleet in grateful recognition of your devoted

Morocco - Casablanca - Vegetable seller - Petit Sokko. He is having a brief break with a well-deserved cup of tea! A rather portly European visitor is taking in the sights

Aylesbury Inebriate Reformatory - Inmates in Flower and Vege
Inmates and staff of the Aylesbury Inebriate Reformatory in the institutions flower and vegetable garden. Date: 1908

Fancy Dress for Winter sports holiday carnival - radish
Suggestions for a fancy dress costume appropriate for a carnival as part of a winter sports holiday programme. Available from Dickins and Jones. Date: 1928

Facade of Abbey of Saint-Gilles, France
Facade of the Abbey of Saint-Gilles is a Benedictine monastery in Saint-Gilles, southern France - two vegetable sellers sit in front selling their wares. Date: circa 1910

Vegetable market, Grand Square, Tangier, Morocco
Vegetable market with traders and shoppers in the Grand Socco (Grand Square), Tangier (Tangiers), Morocco. Date: circa 1910

Frozen-out-gardens 1850
Bitter cold winter months were very harsh for men from the country-side, usually digging vegetables. The winter season and frozen grounds made it hard to find work

A Fruit Seller, Naples
A woman of Naples is having a short rest before continuing selling her fruits. Date: 1904

Vegetable Shop, Naples
Two women sitting in the sun waiting for customers outside their vegetable shop in Naples. Date: 1904

Fruit and vegetable stalls in a marketplace, Pisa, Italy. Date: 1905

Victorian Scrap, man with vegetable cart and donkey. circa 1880s

Illustration, The Turnip -- So the rich brother had to put his brothers Turnip into a cart and have it taken home. Date: 1909

Chelmsford Industrial School
A view across vegetable gardens of the Chelmsford Industrial School

French Theatre -- La Condamnacion de Bancquet
La Condamnacion de Bancquet, a morality play against gluttony attributed to Nicolas (or Nicole) de la Chesnaye. Showing a plump man with a flask of red wine, a chicken on a spit

Radish, Raphanus sativus, root vegetable.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtiss Lectures on Botany

A page from The Illustrated London News, 28th November 1857
A page from The Illustrated London News, dated 28th November 1857, reporting on the history of the British empire in India

Cartoon, German soldier dreaming, WWI
Cartoon, the Boches dream. A hungry German soldier dreams of beer and sausages while asleep in the snow on the Western Front during WW1. Date: 1915

Vintage sweetcorn seed packet
A sweetcorn seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vintage red onion seed packet
A red onion seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vestibule, French Market, New Orleans, USA
Vestibule of the French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, with the original pillars erected in 1822. Date: circa 1920s

View of the Old French Market, New Orleans, USA
View of the Old French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date: circa 1910s

SPAIN. Mambrillas de Lara. Quintanilla de las Vi񡳮; Church of Santa Mar� Detail of the sculpted decoration in the outer wall, 7th c. Architecture

Scientific experiments in the jungle in the early 20th century. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Potato farmers waiting for collectors. Kitulo National Park, Tanzania, Africa

European Bisons (Bison bonasus L.). Bialowieza Nature Park - Belorussia. A gamekeeper waits with a cartload of hay and turnips to feed bisons - a herd comes up to be fed at the supplementary feeding

Dutch boy scout preparing vegetables, Holland
A Dutch boy scout preparing vegetables at camp, Holland

Picking broccoli at Marazion, Cornwall
Three men picking broccoli at Marazion in Cornwall, with St Michaels Mount in the background. Date: 20th century

Vegetable seller (cucumbers)
Fine large cucumbers. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Vegetable seller (cabbages)
Cabbages O! Turnips!. Street vegetable seller. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Greetings postcard from Munich, Germany, showing a figure sitting on a barrel, holding a beer jar in one hand and a vegetable in the other. Date: 1908

Allotments in Fleet Street, London, WW1
Quite possibly the innermost allotment in London, a plot between Fleet Street and Fetter Lane cultivated by two sisters, the Misses Kersey, where they grew cabbages, cauliflowers, beetroots

Growing vegetables for victory, WW1
A page from The Graphic demonstrating the wide variety of ways the British population was growing vegetables during the First World War

Vegetable seller and donkey, Naples, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Vegetable stall, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Vegetable vendor, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits meet a dog
Hullo, There! -- Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits meet a dog lurking behind a large vegetable. Date: 1912

Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits eating a cabbage
The Bitter End -- Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits eat a whole cabbage. Date: 1912

Fruit Label -- Canary Tomatoes
Fruit Label -- finest selected Canary Tomatoes. Date: 20th century

Les Halles Market, Paris
The salad and vegetable market stalls at Les Halles Market, Paris, France Date: 1906

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