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Poster, The need is growing, Dig for Victory still, WW2Poster, The need is growing, Dig for Victory still. 1940s
Hakka Chinese woman - pavement vegetable stall - Hong KongAn elderly Hakka Chinese woman squats by her pavement vegetable stall in Hong Kong. She looks directly at the camera Date: 1979
Wartime KidsA front cover illustration to a WW2 childrens book, Carry On! Kiddies!! The image portrays a boy wearing a red jacket, holding two crying babies under each arm
Heinz Salad Cream PosterAn advertisement poster displayed in an Ideal Homes exhibition catalogue, promoting Heinz salad cream and mayonnaise. The products are displayed in bottles, amongst a cluster of fruit and vegetables
The Retail Distributors, Covent Garden Market, London, by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Date: 1862
The Food Producer, Covent Garden Market, London, by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Date: 1862
Open Market, BrugesAn oil painting of some women, wearing white headscarves and carrying baskets containing vegetables, at an open market in Bruges, Belgium. Date: circa 1919
Still Life Fish and VegetablesA still life oil painting with the subject of food, consisting of some fish laid flat, in front of a large assortment of cabbages and fruit. Date: circa 1919
Fruit and VegetablesA group portrait painting consisting of a man, wearing a blue waistcoat, standing back to back, but looking over his shoulder towards his wife, who is wearing a purple dress, with a brown cloak
Red Coated ManA painting in poster style of a red coated gentleman standing by a cart loaded with orange fruit or vegetables on a pathway surrounding a large town dwelling and conifer tree. Date: circa 1916
Green BirdA portrait painting of a lady, wearing a blue, baggy patterned dress, while holding a shiny ceramic figure of a green bird
When Eve Delved and Adam span, who then was the gentleman?'Scenic outdoor photographs of woman gardening. With captions, Trained Muscles Make Nothing of a Heavy Roller
Advert for Bovril with vegetables, WW2Advert for Bovril - puts a smile into vegetables, WW2 Date: 1943
Advert, Dig for Victory Now! Ministry of Agriculture, WW2 Date: 1942
Man removing peas from froster in Birds Eye factoryMan removing peas from a froster in Birds Eye factory. The peas have been quick-frozen, ready for storage at sub-zero temperature. Date: circa 1970s
Woman inspecting peas in Birds Eye factoryWoman inspecting peas in a Birds Eye factory before they are quick-frozen. Date: circa 1970s
Way to Increase your Greengage Jam RationOwing to the short supply of sugar, it was necessary to cut down the amount used in the jam production. Illustrated by William Heath Robinson showing inside a jam factory where every part of
St Davids Church Army - Harvest Festival Date: 1906
Comic postcard, Turnip, beans and rhubarb Date: 20th century
Porter carrying a load of vegetables, Japan, c. 1870sPorter carrying a load of vegetables, Japan, c.1870s
Food shop, Japan, c. 1880 sFood shop, Japan, c.1880 s
Street Life in London, 1878, Covent Garden labourersJohn Thomson, Street Life in London, 1878, Covent Garden labourers
c. 1880s Japan - vegetable seller
Vegetables on market stall, Whitechapel, LondonColourful vegetables on a stall in Whitechapel Market, with prices in shillings and pence. Date: circa 1960s
Fruit and veg stall, East End street market, LondonFruit and veg stall in market in Londons East End. Price tickets display pre-decimalisation prices, with D representing the old penny. Date: circa 1950s
Fruit, flower and vegetable market, Nuremberg, GermanyA fruit, flower and vegetable market in Nurembergs Town Square, Germany. Date: circa 1930s
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Early BirdsThe Caption is Early Birds. There is a little bird on the window sill - most likely a robin. The small flower bed has flowers - not the vegetables that everyone was encouraged to cultivate.Mr
Allotment studies by G. E. StuddyNo. I. - Back to the land and what it fills like! To tackle food shortages, people were given plots to grow their own vegetables, in this cartoon a man is in agonising back pain
Brighouse, West Yorkshire - Mazdaznan - Harvest Festivalcirca 1910s
Trades in Regency England. Brick making, butter churning and rabbit warren. Brickmaker with bricks, hod, kiln and wheelbarrow in Woolpit 31, woman churning butter in an urn in Bury dairy 32
Intensive vegetable production, 1940Intensive vegetable production. Inter-cropping as a war time necessity, 1940. Date: 1940
What digging for victory really means, 1940This is what Digging for Victory really means, 1940. Growing vegetables in an allotment or garden. Date: 1940
Vegetable variety, 1943. Wartime recipes. Date: 1943
Menu card, Princes Restaurant, SingaporeFront cover, menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore, showing a chef and his young assistant in a ramshackle and untidy kitchen. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1930s
Food marketAt the market. A cook with her poodle buying vegetables at the market. Artist: Charles Brock Date: circa 1920
Music cover, Citee comme Temoin (called as a witness), words by Marie Vernet, music by Jules Carlez, comic courtroom scene with judges and witness. 19th century
Poster, The effects of over-cooking and keeping hot. Vitamin value, goodness, taste go up in smoke - result is waste. 1945
The Dutch Housewife, by Nicolaes Maes, in the National Gallery, London. Date: 1655
Advert, Bell & Bieberstedt, Seed Growers, Leith, ScotlandAdvert for Bell & Bieberstedt, Seed Growers, Leith, Scotland. 1905
Plate and platter from Treviso and Nove, Italy. Decorated with vegetables and fruit, border of flowers. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French
Plates from Marseille, France, 18th century, decorated with landscape and flowers 1, and with fruit, vegetables and flowers 2
Salad leaf vegetables, plants pour salads et condiments. Milkvetch, Astragalus hamosus, scorpions tale, Scorpiurus vermiculatus, wild celery, Angelica archangelica, charlock mustard
Leaf vegetables and herbs, Herbes potageres et plantes condimenteires. Green and red basil, Ocimum basilicum, opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, thyme, Thymus vulgaris, and bay leaf, Laurus nobilis
Leaf vegetables, Herbes potageres. Chard, Beta vulgaris, nettle, Urtica dioica, rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum, garden orache, Atriplex hortensis
Vegetables, Plantes potageres. Tarragon, Artemisia dracunculus, salad burnet, Poterium sanguisorba, leek, Allium porrum, garden sorrel, Rumex acetosa, and spinach leaf, Spinacia oleracea
Root vegetables, racines et tubercule alimentaires. Salsify, Tragopogon porrifolium, skirret, Sium sisarum, oca or New Zealand yam, Oxalis crenata, parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, and black salsify
Root vegetables, racines alimentaires. Beetroot, Beta vulgaris, wild carrot, Daucus carota, and rampion, Campanula rapunculus
Chinese itinerant merchant with cart loaded with food products. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples