Vegetables Collection (page 9)

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

Lord Mayor of London visiting NFS City fire station, WW2
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Samuel Joseph, visiting London firefighters at the Redcross Street fire station (Fire Force 35-station C 1Z, 35-38 Redcross Street.)

Batchelor & Co advert
Batchelor & Company Marrowfat peas Date: 1909

A good lunch - one hot dish, meat, vegetables - sandwich - fruit - milk WPA school lunch. Poster promoting good eating habits in school. Date between 1936 and 1941

Can vegetables, fruit, and the kaiser too - Write for free book to National War Garden Commission, Washington, D.C. Poster (reproduction) showing jars of canned goods, including Tomatoes, Peas

Vegetables (at left) and school supplies in drug store window in mining town. Osage, West Virginia. Date 1938 Sept

Women at Army Cookery School, 1939
A merry moment during peeling onions with the new Army cooks at an Army cookery school in the south of England in the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

Old Workhouse Infirmary, Hunslet, West Yorkshire
The infirmary at the old Hunslet Union workhouse on Hillidge Road, Hunslet. The area next to the building was extensively cultivated to grow vegetables for consumption by the inmates

Port Arthur - Varieties of Chinese Vegetables
Japanese card depicting three varieties of Chinese cabbage and other vegetables (possibly beetroot) - at Port Arthur. A panoramic view of Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian)

Smiling woman preparing a wholesome feast
A woman wearing a chequered apron and broad smile, leans over the stove and peels potatoes for the roast dinner she is preparing. 1937

German vegetable market stall - Munich. 2010

A crop of vegetables - Western Canada
A fine food crop from Western Canada - including pumpkins, corn, onions, potatoes, squash, sunflower and various other root vegetables. Date: circa 1907

A Romanian cottage and occupants Date: 1904

Romanian food market
Scene in a Romanian food market. Date: circa 1910s

Low Country Sinhalese Woman - Sri Lanka. She appears to have a pile of interestingly-shaped fruit or veg in her lap, which defies identification.... Date: circa 1908

Szczecin - Poland - Town Hall and Vegetable Market
Szczecin (Stettin) - the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. The Town Hall and Vegetable Market. Date: circa 1905

JAVANESE SHOP
A stall selling fruit and vegetables in Java, Indonesia (Dutch East Indies). Date: 1930s

Little girl standing at a garden gate
A little girl standing at a garden gate, rather disappointed that her day hasn t been more exciting. first published 1879

Little fat goblin stealing cabbages
A little fat goblin stealing cabbages, much to the distress of the farmer. first published 1879

View of a street market, Vienna, Austria
View of a street market in Vienna, Austria. There are wooden crates piled up on both sides of the road, and stalls with produce on display. A stallholder on the left is adjusting her sun blind

A Local Covent Garden - Colombo, Ceylon
A Local Covent Garden (!) - Colombo, Sri Lanka Date: 1910s

Winter Vegetables
Mixed winter vegetables : Potatoes, turnips and parsnips. Date: 1980

JUNE STAR CABBAGE
A June Star cabbage. Date: 1969

Giant Cabbages
A bumper crop of giant cabbages, long before the days of genetic modification. Date: early 1930s

Packing Lettuces
Workers packing early lettuces in a market garden greenhouse in Essex, England. Date: 1930s

Prague Fruit Seller
A peasant girl selling fruit and vegetables on a stall in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Date: 1930s

Cabbage Patch
An old man inspecting his cabbage patch. Date: early 1930s

PEA POD
Peas in the pod. Date: 1950s

Vegetable / Marrow
A fine specimen of a marrow! Date: 1960s

Watercress Bed
A Watercress Bed at Walesby, Nottinghamshire, England, a new venture by an enterprising local farmer. Date: 1930s

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