Vegetables Collection (page 8)

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

Suffragettes Attack Election Candidate. At a general election meeting, the suffragists were on hand to pelt the hapless candidate with eggs, vegetables and rotten fish. Date: circa 1910

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 food in Chancery Lane, WW1
Mr Hubert Hall, resident officer of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, pictured hard at work in the gardens of the old Rolls House, where

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

Union workhouse at Nantwich, Cheshire
A view of the Union workhouse at Nantwich. The grounds of the institution are being used for the cultivation of vegetables. Date: Date unknown

Page in wartime food booklet, WW2
Page in wartime food booklet, explaining the importance of growing your own vegetables, by the Minister of Food, Lord Woolton. Date: 1940s

Miss Hermione Kennedy digging somewhere in France
Miss Hermione Kennedy, the daughter of Lady Alexander Kennedy, widow of the late Lord Alexander Kennedy, snapshotted digging in the garden of a British soldiers buffet somewhere on the Western Front

War Time Pudding with Oxo, 1918
Advertisement for Oxo from the First World War, suggesting that the versatile stock cube could help out your meat ration. A new Oxo dish prepared by an unidentified celebrated chef

Cucurbitaceae - Gourd
Cucurbitaceae: the gourd tribe. Source: Illustrations of the natural orders of plants with groups and descriptions by Twining, Elizabeth, 1805-1889

Forcing the Murphies by Heath Robinson
Endeavouring to open the eyes of seed potatoes before sowing - a silly horticultural idea by William Heath Robinson. Date: 1918

Skye crofters planting potatoes, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Vegetable stall, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Vegetable vendor, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Black soldiers preparing food, Western Front, France, WW1
Black soldiers preparing food at a camp near the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1917

Allied troops in Burma by G. H. Davis
How the Allied troops in Burma are kept fit: fresh meat and vegetables carried great distances in refrigerators. Showing the system of transport of fresh supplies by rail

Voles and vegetables
Three voles engaging in digging up carrots

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1945
Something new in salad. Salad making gives full scope to your powers of invention. For almost all vegetables are at home in the salad bowl, and you can try them in almost endless combinations

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1942
Home-guards of health. Of course you don t want to be a food crank. But it is useful to know that there are certain homely foods that can do a marvellous job of protecting you

Original Farmers Market, Hollywood, California, USA
The Original Farmers Market, West 3rd Street, Fairfax, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 1941

customers buying fruit and veg at market
Man and woman buying fruit and veg at market stall Date: 1930s

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

Stone building, Preston, East Lothian, Scotland
An interesting stone building in a field, Preston, East Lothian, Scotland

Gathering wild vegetables - India
Gathering wild vegetables (or plants, flowers or herbs) - India. Date: circa 1910s

Women carry vegetables through a cactus plantation - Israel (then under Ottoman control). Date: circa 1916

A food hygiene course
Two chefs prepare food infront of a predominantly female audience who take notes and listen keenly to the two experts. The blackboard behind the cooks has details of todays dishes which include beef

Watercress Cultivation
Watercress cultivation : planting the cress. Date: 1950s

Loading Mangels
Loading mangelwurzels from a clamp on a farm in Hertfordshire, England. The word manglewurzel is derived from the German mangel beet and wurzel root. Date: 1930s

Cucumber Wheelbarrow
A happy girl pushes a wheelbarrow full of fresh cucumbers. Date: 1930s

Harvesting Cucumbers
Harvesting cucumbers from the roof, although cucumbers are normally grown in the ground. Date: 1930s

Cucumber Girls 1930S
Two waving girls with a tray of fresh cucumbers. Date: 1930s

Boy with pet dog
Boy with Dog. Ceruti, Giacomo 1698-1767. Born in Milan, Ceruti trained there and absorbed the north Italian interest in still-life painting associated with the work of Caravaggio

Boy with Vegetables. Ceruti, Giacomo 1698-1767. Born in Milan, Ceruti trained there and absorbed the north Italian interest in still-life painting associated with the work of Caravaggio

Japanese Serving girl preparing vegetables for her Mistress - perched on a rather unusual (and uncomfortable-looking) wooden frame. Date: circa 1906

Grand Socco Vegetable Market - Tangier, Morocco Date: circa 1907

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

Serbian Beggar - clutching a handful of unusual root vegetables... Date: circa 1910s

The American war effort at home - WWI - the benefits of growing ones own food on a allotment, smallholding or in the garden and also the benfits of then bottling/canning fruit and veg

Local Fruit Sellers, Hamilton, Bermuda
Local Fruit and Vegetable Sellers, Hamilton, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

San Lourenco Fair, Beja, Portugal Date: circa 1910

Mother and baby rabbit at the market
Mother rabbit stays beneath a large green umbrella while baby rabbit decides which vegetables to add to her shopping basket. c. 1920

Medical plants. Poppy (Papaver somniferum). Engraving

Alhambra. SPAIN. Granada. Alhambra. Sal󮠤e
Alhambra. SPAIN. Granada. Alhambra. Sal󮠤 e Embajadores (Hall of the Ambassadors). Detail of the decoration with geometric, vegetables motifs and stucco inscriptions. Hispano-Moresque art

Vegetables for Soup
A pile of fresh vegetables, including cabbage, cauliflower, onions, celery, etc. ready to be made into a pan of vegetable soup. Date: early 1930s

Inmates employed at canning in the Amsterdam Workhouse
Inmates preparing vegetables for canning at the workhouse, Roetersstraat, Amsterdam Date: 1932

Boy peeling potatoes

Runner Beans 19C
Runner bean. Date: 19th century

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