Wheat Collection (page 6)

Wheat Harvest Canada
Stacking in a Manitoba wheat field Date: 1890s

Autumn Flowers 1880
AUTUMN FLOWERS (3 of 4) Date: 1880

Double page spread in a diary for 12-17 August
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 12-17 August. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Woman harvesting in a field of corn
A woman harvesting in a field of corn. She is wearing old-fashioned country clothes, including a Victorian-style bonnet

Boy on a farm, sitting in the back of a cart
A little boy on a farm, sitting in the back of a cart at harvest time. A yoked ox can be seen on the left, and sheaves of corn in the background

Man and woman of the Black Forest
A man and woman of the Black Forest preparing for the harvest. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Music sheet cover for Danseuses Viennoises
Music sheet cover for the Danseuses Viennoises (Viennese Dancers), No.3 Pas des Moissonneurs (Harvesters Dance or Harvest Fete), with music by Max Maretzek (1821-1897)

Abundance and Prosperity - a New Years wish for 1906

Harvesting in Canada
Farmers harvesting with a combine harvester at Louise Bridge, Red River, Canada

Ploughing, England 1954
A farmer on a tractor ploughs ready for wheat sowing, Chalford, Gloucestershire

Red Star Line to Canada poster
Poster produced by the Red Star Line shipping company promoting its service from Southampton in Britain to Canada via Cherbourg

Vaczrol - Hungary - The dedication ceremony for a military memorial

Cutting the Corn
A young boy stands in a field watching a horse-drawn harvesting machine cutting the corn

America. Wheat Farming in California. July: Warehousing
The wheat is stored in enormous wooded framed barns once harvested

America. Wheat Farming in California. June: Heading
A large machine pulled by horses and pushed by six mules travels through the fields heading the wheat

Ralston Wheat Cereal Ad
Two little boys combine muscles and it looks as if one hasn t been enjoying the healthy, nutritional benefits of Ralston Wheat Cereal

Lark, Brood & Farmer
THE LARK, HER BROOD & THE FARMER: A lark & her young ones, nesting in a field, flee when the owner of the wheat comes to take the harvest in

Fashions for April 1851
Evening corsages including a lace bertha & bows (echelles); fringed green pardessus; black lace edged mantle with collar; purple morning dress: jacket corsage with tabbed basque

Wheat Field / Power Stn
Food and Power. A delightful glimpse of a wheat-field and in the background is Hams Hall Power Station, Warwickshire

Food for the Needy
The text is telling farmers that they should give some of their harvest to the needy

Hats Like Flower Beds
A boy and girl, playing a kissing game, use Mamas flowery picture hats as flower beds. An ideal subsititue as they are adorned with roses, corn & stuffed birds

Plants / Zea-Mays
MAIZE, or INDIAN CORN, named by Gerard TURKY WHEAT

Tom Thumb and Furmenty
He falls by accident into the Kings bowl of hot frumenty (a kind of wheat porridge flavoured with cinnamon etc)

Cross with Dove Etc
depicted as a coffin, containing a sacred heart and a chalice, with grapes symbolising wine, wheat representing bread, and a dove

Game: the Peasant 1886
Would you know how does the peasant sow his barley and wheat? Look, tis so that does the peasant sow his barley and wheat

A Gleaning Girl
A gleaner, sickle in hand, carries home a sheaf of wheat

Wheat Harvest, 1846
A farmer rides by the wheat field to see how the harvesting is coming along - twelve people are working at the various manual tasks

Meal-Man / 1647 / Broadside
A meal-man with sacks of wheat These tradesman are preachers in the City of London, 1647. A satirical broadside on non- conformist preaching in London

Costume / La Mode 1833
Dress: floral embroidery on the skirt, hem, belt & panels on the bouffante sleeves, swans down edged pelerine & false sleeves, turban, black blonde lace scarf

Advert / Cream of Wheat
Uncle Sam enjoys his Cream of Wheat - even the American Eagle would like a taste

LADIES & BOY 1865
Boy: Danish trousers & Zouave jacket. Women: bodice with square basques, fourreau skirt (each panel trimmed); hitched- up walking skirt & hooded mantle in spotted fabric

3 Evening Dresses 1843
Hair is worn off the face & covers the ears & is ornamented with white ostrich plumes & wheat, rosettes & tiny flowers. Ans shaped coil of hair is secured with a comb

Grey Dress 1850S
1882 depiction of 1840s fashions: dress en redingote in grey with white under sleeves (engageantes). A white bonnet adorned with golden ears of wheat is also worn

Female Type / Beige Dress
Close-up detail of a jacket bodice with fringed basques, narrow stand collar & funnel sleeves. Her hair is dressed in a chignon with a small straw hat worn tilted forward

Shredded Wheat Factory
The home of Shredded Wheat at Niagara Falls, New York, the cleanest, finest, most hygienic food factory in the world where 2+ million are made every day

Plants / Triticum
Triticum Lucidum Bright Wheat

Game; how Doth Peasant
All form a circle and mime country activities - sowing and threshing barley and wheat, that sort of thing

Shredded Wheat Ad / 1935
Advertisement for Shredded Wheat promoting it as the national breakfast (served with strawberries)

Month / September
On peut en ma saison trouver Froment et vin, avoyne et poys [In my season you ll find wheat and wine, oats and peas...]

19th Century Reaper
A Victorian farm labourer reaping a field of wheat

Tulls Wheat Drill
Jethro Tulls Wheat Drill

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