Harvesting Collection

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

Ford tractor, Cls combine, wheat harvesting, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

The Harvesters, 1565. Creator: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Harvesters, 1565

John Deere combine harvester, harvesting Barley (Hordeum vulgare) crop, filling trailer pulled by tractor with grain, England, july

Frescoes, Coit Tower, San Francisco, California, United States of America, North America

Womens Land Army in action, 1939
Land Girls following a tractor drawn potato digger, gathering produce before it can be affected by frost. Date: 1939

Harvesting Oysters
American oystermen of New Jersey harvest the mature oysters which they planted earlier in the year when they were young

Canada, the right land for the right man Poster, showing a man farming and harvesting wheat, by Canadian National Railways

A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. Twort
A bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935

Cross section of a steam thresher

Three men building a Cornish Mow. 1900
Three men building a Cornish Mow (rick) in a field overlooking a Cornish estuary while the dog takes it easy. Probably on Rock side of the Camel estuary looking across the Camel river to the railway

Threshing machine in collision with a hayrick. Possibly in St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. Around 1912
Threshing machine and steam engine partially collapsed and overturned, propping up a hayrick which is leaning over at rather an alarming angle. The chimney from the engine can be seen on the ground

Italy, Florence, Olive grove outside the walls of Anagni, 1927
Giovanni Colacicchi (1900-1992), Olive Grove Outside the Walls of Anagni, 1927

Harvesting barley with a combine harvester, Suffolk
Harvesting barley with a combine harvester on a farm in Suffolk, England

Farming - wheat harvest & combine harvester
CAN-2090 FARMING - wheat harvest and combine harvester Spain John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Painting of people harvesting in rice fields, Neka Museum, Ubud, island of Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Tractor towing baler unloading drum bale, Wannock, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Jamaica - Harvesting the Sugar Cane Crop on a large Estate Date: circa 1910s

Tractor stopping to allow hay bale making machine to release bale of hay - September - Staffordshire - England
GUY-250 Tractor stopping to allow hay bale making machine to release bale of hay - September Staffordshire - England - UK Guy Rogers Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Farming couple with tractor and full trailer during haymaking in a field near Lalbenque, Lot, Midi Pyrenees, France, Europe

Poster depicting cocoa pod gathering
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board depicting the gathering of cocoa pods

Harvesting Barley
Harvesting barley with a Ransome Combine Harvester on a farm in Suffolk, England

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

Massey Ferguson tractor with McHale baler, round baling silage in meadow, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire, England, september

Cls forage harvester unloading into tractor with trailer, making alkalage with wholecrop cereals for animal feed, Cumbria, England, september

Beekeeping, 19th century
Beekeeping, 19th-century artwork. Beekeeper extracting honey from honeycombs obtained from a beehive. Bees collect nectar from a wide range of flowering plants

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) crop, ripe ears in field, with Cls combine harvester harvesting, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, England, september

Cls combine harvester harvesting wheat grown on the downs in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Harvesting with Tractor
Havesting barley on a farm in Suffolk, England, using a Fordson tractor

A combine harvester in Weybourne in Norfolk UK
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Tilia x europaea, Lime tree

Woad production, Algarkirk, Lincolnshire NMR02_01_00009
Algarkirk, Lincolnshire. A group of man and women cropping woad and collecting it in large wicker baskets. The earliest woad production in Britain dates from the Iron Age

horse-powered threshing machine
Illustration of a horse-powered threshing machine

Haymaking near St Buryan, Cornwall. Late 1800s
Group of farmworkers haymaking with a horsedrawn cart. In the foreground is an open mangold clamp. Photographer: Unknown

Asia, India, Calcutta. Garlands of rose and freesia in the flower market in Calcutta

Angkor Wat temple at sunrise reflecting in water

Hand cutting corn, Belle Vue, Redruth, Cornwall. Around 1870s
Three men cutting corn in a field with cottages in the background. Photographer: Unknown

Cutting broccoli, near Penzance, Cornwall. Early 1900s
A group of farm workers stand in front of a large cart with two horses. Photographer: Unknown

Threshing in Cornwall. Around 1880s or 1890s
Threshing machine driven by a steam engine with a large number of people, men, women and children. The engine is probably a Marshall built at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Harvesting mangolds, Cornwall. Around 1900 or earlier
Four women harvesting mangolds. Photographer: Canon Henry Holroyd Mills

McCORMICK HARVESTER. Demonstration of the horse-drawn harvester and binder invented by Cyrus Hall McCormick. Undated photograph

Cutting Bananas down from their tree - Costa Rica
Cutting large bunches of Bananas down from their tree - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Combine harvester working in a wheat field
Combine harvester. Combine harvester working in a wheat field. Wheat, Triticum sp. is the most important crop in the world, and is largely used to make flour

The Hay crop from Suttons Grass Seeds
A promotional postcard for Suttons Seeds, Reading - showing women harvesting the hay crop, grown from Suttons Grass seeds

Peat cutting with blocks drying Isle of Skye, Scotland
MAB-20 Peat cutting with blocks / briquettes drying Isle of Skye, Scotland Extracting fuel fossil seam. Mark Boulton Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Gleaners at Chambaudoin, 1857 (oil on canvas)
XIR231251 Gleaners at Chambaudoin, 1857 (oil on canvas) by Hedouin, Pierre Edmond Alexandre (1820-89); Musee Municipal, Villefranche-sur-Saone

Gathering Plums, 1901, (c1930). Creator: Henry Herbert la Thangue
Gathering Plums, 1901, (c1930). A young woman and boy fill baskets with fallen fruit in an orchard with a stream running through it. Painting in the Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

Jolly Grape Pickers
A grinning group of grape pickers pose for the camera in a vineyard in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

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"Capturing the Essence of Harvesting: From John Deere to Pieter Bruegel" Harvesting, a timeless practice that connects generations and continents, encompasses various techniques and crops. In the vast fields of Wiltshire, England, a Ford tractor pulls a John Deere combine harvester through golden barley (Hordeum vulgare) crops. The rhythmic hum of machinery fills the air as the trailer behind it eagerly awaits its grain-filled bounty. Reflecting on history's depiction of harvesting, we are transported back to 1565 when Pieter Bruegel the Elder immortalized "The Harvesters. " This masterpiece captures peasants diligently working in harmony with nature's abundance. A stark contrast emerges as we envision horse-drawn harvesters laboriously reaping bountiful oysters from coastal shores. In F. C. Twort's painting titled "A Memory of a Hop Field, " nostalgia takes hold as memories intertwine with hop vines reaching for the sky. Across distant lands like Canada, posters proclaim that this is indeed "the right land for the right man, " inviting dreamers to embrace their agricultural aspirations. Suffolk becomes our next destination where modernity meets tradition; here, a combine harvester effortlessly gathers barley while Suffolk farmers witness their hard work come to fruition. Meanwhile, a cross-section view reveals intricate inner workings within an archaic steam thresher – an engineering marvel once relied upon by our ancestors. As time progresses into the early 20th century in Cornwall, three men meticulously construct a Cornish Mow – an emblematic structure symbolizing communal efforts during harvest season. However, mishaps were not uncommon; one photograph captures chaos ensuing when a threshing machine collides with a hayrick in St Stephen in Brannel around 1912. Evolution continues as technology advances further; today's scene showcases Cls forage harvester unloading into tractors equipped with trailers, producing alkalage from wholecrop cereals for animal feed.