Corn Collection

Horses pulling the plough
Two heavy horses, pull a farmers plough through a newly cut cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Map of the Rivelin Valley Estate, 1934
Taken from a Report of Special Conference regarding the Development of the Rivelin Valley, Sheffield City Council, Sep 1934.Rivelin Mill, Rivelin Valley Road, Rivelin Hotel, St Michaels RC Cemetery

A correct plan of the town of Sheffield by William Fairbank, 1771
Scale 440 yards : 3.3 inches. Shows the Bull Stake, slaughterhouses, Town Mill, Irish Cross. Original at Local Studies y09647

Shire Horses pull the plough
A team of two white shire horses pull a light plough across a field of recently cut corn. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Cornfield at the Battle of Antietam, Civil War
Union troops charging through the cornfield at Antietam, 1862. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Millet Gleaners
Glaneurs gleaning the corn field after the crop has been stored

THANKSGIVING: CORNUCOPIA. Wood engraving, 19th century

Stirling Castle, Scotland, UK
Stirling castle. Cows grazing beside a corn field. Stirling castles position on top of steep crags made it easy to defend

Horse-drawn harvester
Two shire horses pull a farmer sitting asride an basic harvesting machine. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Consequences, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Consequences -- How the thoughtlessness of a butterfly seriously affected a bishops corn, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

A Plan of the town of Sheffield in the county of York drawn by W. Fairbank 1797. Engraved by Thomas Harris
Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library:s 45 S

Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
Mitchells Corn Palace, The Worlds Only Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota, USA. The card notes that this building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10

Emberiza calandra, corn bunting
Plate 26 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats - Music Sheet Cover
Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats (Mares eats Oats and Does Eat Oats) - Music Sheet Cover, words and music by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingstone

Old Towngate - Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Old Towngate, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Holmfirth has become well known as the location of the situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine

Liberal Election Campaign Card, 1909
A Liberal Party campaign card for the 1909 General Election. A grim image of an elderly couple heading for the workhouse is contrasted with the partys vision of sunlit fields of waving corn

Royal Line poster
Poster promoting Royal Line Northern Canadian railway system and Atlantic steamship service, showing a ship crossing the Atlantic on the way to Canada from Bristol

Cropdusting a corn field in Saline County, Nebraska. cropdusting, cropduster
Cropdusting a corn field in Saline County, Nebraska

Street scene with shops, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A street scene with shops, in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. The large corner shop is Bells grocery store, decorated with flags, perhaps to celebrate Empire Day (24 May)

Ceres / Demeter Crane 1889
CORN PERSONIFIED - WHEAT (triticum) - BARLEY (hordium) - RYE (secale cereale)

Grimsby Street
Busy scene at the Old Market Place and Corn Exchange at Grimsby, Humberside, England

Plants / Papaver Rhoeas
Corn Poppy, or Corn Rose Poppy, or Field Poppy

Plants / Papaver Rhoeas
Corn or Field Poppy

Farming Scene in Western Canada - harvesting crops and stooks. Date: circa 1910s

The Croton Flour Mills of George V. Hecker & Co. - New York
The Croton Flour Mills of George V. Hecker & Co. - 199, 201 and 203 Cherry Street, New York, USA. The old windmill of 1776 and the modern mill of 1876. Date: circa 1890

USA, IOWA, Froelich: Old farm

Greater Sandhill Cranes - in winter, feeding in maize (corn) field. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
ROG-12021 Greater Sandhill Cranes - in winter, feeding in maize (corn) field. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA

Bungay Corn Cross 1810
The corn cross from the village of Bungay, on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, and the plan of a double punt. Heraldic medallions(coins) from the 17th century surround the illustration of the cross

Stirling Castle 1904
Stirling Castle, from the Kings Knot

Punch / Corn Law / Coventgdn
CORN LAWS Purifying Covent Garden Theatre

Flowers in a glass Vase with Fruit, 1665. Creator: Jan Davidsz de Heem
Flowers in a glass Vase with Fruit, 1665

AGRI2D-00031
Squash, beans, and corn - the " three sisters" of Native American agriculture. Digital photograph

Corn, beans and squash grown the native American way
Native American three-sisters method of growing corn, beans, and squash, New Mexico. Photograph

Mullins Farm, Port-Na-Blagh, Co. Donegal - a view of the farm taken from a corn field with people outside and to the right a motor car and horse vehicle

Shops at Caledonian Road, North London. Date: circa 1905

Plan of part of the Town of Sheffield shewing the existing markets, the property of His Grace the Duke of Norfolk
Scale: 400 yards to 6.3 inches.Surveyors: J G Weightman and M E Hadfield.Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library:s 16 L

Farm and field at sunset, Wisconsin
Sunset on a Wisconsin farm, Green County. The warm sunset glow sweeps across the corn field landscape

Largest ear of corn grown in Canada
Humorous card depicting the Largest ear of corn grown in Canada !! 1910

Maize root, light micrograph
Maize root. Light micrograph of a section through the root of a maize plant (Zea mays) showing a vascular cylinder (centre)

Harvest Mice 1869
Two harvest mice among the ears of corn and poppies

View of 18 Mortimer Street, London, with the offices of E Dubois & Co on the first floor, and Nickolls & Baker, Corn Merchant, below. A bus to Liverpool Street is passing by. Date: 1904

Corn for sale at a farmers market, Charleston, South Carolina. USA

Eurasian Jay -Garrulus glandarius- on a corn cob, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Indian corn, also known as maize, was historically cultivated by tribes in Oklahoma such as the Wichita, Caddo, Creek, Cherokee and Seminole Indians

Treating foot corns, satirical artwork

NATI2A-00174
Pueblo farmer plowing the soil near Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

AGRI2D-00029
Posole - Pueblo Indian dried corn - in a Native American basket. Digital photograph

Hay bales in the evening light
A view of a field with stacked bales of hay in the evening light. Pencil and watercolour sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Farmers walk and lead a team of working horses across a harvested cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Salt grain and peppercorn, SEM
Salt and peppercorn. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a salt grain (blue) and a peppercorn (brown). Salt (sodium chloride) is a crystalline compound

Poppies - & corn field South Downs, Sussex, UK
MAW-52 UK - Corn fields & poppies on South Downs, as a field margin. South Downs, Sussex, UK showing consevation headland & field margin

Pitstone windmill and cornfield, with Ivinghoe Beacon in background, Chilterns, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Field flowers in corn field barley field with cornflowers and scentless chamomile (Tripleurospermum inodorum)
SAS-293 Field flowers in corn field - barley field with cornflowers and scentless chamomile (Tripleurospermum inodorum) in evening light Baden-Wuerttemberg

Racial / Lebanese Women
Drusian women of the Lebanon grinding corn

The Gleaners, Blockley, Gloucestershire
A family group collecting left over corn at Blockley. The title might be a reflection of the painting by Jean-Francois Millet noted for depicting peasant workers in a sympathetic way Date: 1905

Threshing corn by traction engine
Threshing corn by steam power. Possibly Suffolk Date: circa 1905

Stirling Castle from Kings Knot, Stirling, Scotland
Stirling Castle viewed from Kings Knot, Stirling, Scotland. circa 1905

Banff Bridge in 1901. Creator: Unknown
Banff Bridge in 1901. Harvest scene near Banff in Scotland. Print after a painting by Robert Weir Allan. From English water-colour with reproductions of drawings by eminent painters

Paper bag design, c. 1890
Paper bag design from the late nineteenth century for Albert Smith, Baker, Confectioner and Corn Factor, of Derby Road, Nottingham, featuring a rather lovely border showing various crops

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Corn field and a sunset with silver clouds

Repeal of Corn Laws and abolition of tariffs. Richard Cobden (1804-1865) an advocate of Free Trade, hurrying Robert Peel the Prime Minister, along the Free Trade Path

The Invasions of England and Ireland With al [sic] their Civ
Map: The Invasions of England and Ireland With al [sic] their Civill [sic] Wars since the Conquest Corn Danckertsz sculpsit [London] George Humble, 1627 (c)

The first authentic stage Tess
Photographs of the first production of Thomas Hardys own dramatic version of his novel Tess of the d Urbervilles on 26th November 1924 by the Hardy Players at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester

Sandhill cranes land in corn fields before heading to the Platte River in evening near Kearney, Nebraska, USA

Source Size = 2444 x 2928
The Corn Exchange, Sleaford, Lincolnshire

Source Size = 3892 x 2531
Interior of the Sleaford Corn Exchange, Lincolnshire

Sale of Indian corn
The government sale of Indian corn at Cork, Ireland. Date: 1846

Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) in cornfield; now very rare in UK
ROG-12690 Cornflowers in cornfield now very rare in UK. Centaurea cyanus Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Rural scene with honeysuckle and poppies
A pretty rural scene with pink honeysuckle, yellow primroses and red poppies growing by a stone wall, with a cornfield and a windmill in the background

Wheatfield Cotswolds in August
KH-118 WHEATFIELD August, Cotswolds, UK Ken Hoy Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Poppies - in wheat / corn field
LA-2254 Poppies - in wheat / corn field Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

USA, Indiana, Indianapolis. Ears of dry, hard corn. Credit as: Wendy Kaveney / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont.com

Different types of corn, Chinchero, Sacred Valley, Urubamba Province, Cusco Region, Peru

Tuscany, Val d Orcia, Italy. Cypress trees in green meadow field with clouds gathering meadow field at sunset

Corn crake
Simun Ascic

Gaynor with others in cornfield, St. James, L.I. 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Gaynor with others in cornfield, St. James, L.I. 1910

Gaynor in the cornfields, St. James, L.I. 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Gaynor in the cornfields, St. James, L.I. 1910

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"Corn: A Journey Through Time and Landscapes" Step back in time to witness the age-old tradition of horses pulling the plough, as they diligently cultivate the fertile fields. The Map of the Rivelin Valley Estate from 1934 guides us through this picturesque countryside, revealing a tapestry of golden cornfields stretching as far as the eye can see. Travel further back in history with William Fairbank's correct plan of Sheffield from 1771, showcasing a bustling town surrounded by bountiful corn crops. Fast forward to 1797, and another masterpiece by Fairbank presents an intricately engraved Plan of Sheffield that highlights its agricultural heritage. Shire Horses, majestic creatures with their immense strength and grace, continue to pull the plough across vast landscapes like Stirling Castle in Scotland. Witnessing these magnificent animals working harmoniously with humans is truly awe-inspiring. The Millet Gleaners epitomize hard work and dedication as they meticulously gather every precious grain left behind after harvest. Horse-drawn harvesters join forces with farmers to ensure no bounty goes to waste – a testament to human ingenuity throughout history. Intriguingly depicted in an illustration by William Heath Robinson titled "Consequences, " we are reminded that every action has its consequences – even when it comes to something as humble yet essential as corn farming. Let us not forget moments of joy amidst our exploration; Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats serenade us on an enchanting music sheet cover while we immerse ourselves in tales spun around Mitchells Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. This architectural marvel celebrates corn's significance while captivating visitors from near and far. Nature too plays its part; Emberiza calandra or the charming corn bunting graces our presence with its melodic song against a backdrop of gently swaying stalks. Its presence reminds us that corn sustains not only humans but also the diverse ecosystem it supports.