Straw Collection

Two travelling salesmen walking on a beach. Italy. Date of Photograph:1950- 1960

"Elba Island. Bow-net maker in Porto Azzuro" Porto Azzurro Porto Azzuro. Date of Photograph:21/08/1947

Essex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898

Picture No. 10983325
DOG - Cavachon (Cavarier x Bichon Frise ) puppy wearing straw hat 10 weeks old Digital Manipulation Date:

Old Alresford, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Sennen Cove, Cornwall, England, UK

Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, UK

Picture No. 11073026
DOG Mini Schnauzer puppy in hay

Hereford Bull & Cow 1912
A Hereford bull and cow in the farmyard. Date: 1912

Suffragette Cat in Straw Hat Votes for Women. Cat in a straw hat, placed at a jaunty angle, wears a large placard which reads, Votes for Women Date: circa 1908

Komuso Buddhist monks, Japan. They wear a straw basket (tengai) over their head and play a bamboo flute (shakuhachi). Date: circa 1890s

Border Collie Dog - puppy in straw
JD-2565 Border Collie Dog - puppy in straw John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Pig - Berkshire piglet in straw
JD-20048 Pig - Berkshire piglet in straw John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Picture No. 11768877
Chicken hen with multi-coloured eggs hatched in straw pen Digital Manipulation: eggs coloured Date:

Boy feeding lambs on Crosss Farm with bottle, 1932 George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: Garland N5540

Two Horses and a Dachshund family
Two Horses peeking over the edge of their stable to see a Mother Dachshund and her brood of puppies Date: circa 1910s

Moroccan Woman of the Mountains
A Moroccan Woman of the Mountains with her young son asleep in a sling made out of the same material as her sarong-style skirt

Picturesque thatched cottage at Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire Moors National Park, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Bathing Belle on Pier
A flirtatious young woman in a two-piece bathing costume of side lacing shorts & striped tunic adjusts her black stockings. N.B espadrilles with ribbon lacing

Retro poster, Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte
Retro poster for Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte, character from HMS Pinafore. 1960s

Women outdoors 1881
Two women in walking dresses at the seaside. 1881

Quechua Indian family on Floating Grass islands of Uros, Lake Titicaca, Peru, South America

Picture No. 11073025
DOG Mini Schnauzer puppy in hay

Kuwait - The Main Street of the Kuwait City Date: 1933

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

WIZARD OF OZ, 1939. Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow in the 1939 MGM production of The Wizard of Oz

Farming - round straw bales on stubble - strongly sidelit a. m. sun - Devon UK
HAR-34 Farming - Round straw bales on stubble, strongly sidelit am. sun Devon UK Anthony Harrison Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

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)

Tomando Mate - Argentina
Gaucho taking mate in Argentina. Tomando mate or " taking mate, " is a cultural practice, which refers literally to drinking a semi-bitter herbal infusion of crushed yerba mate leaves in

First airmail letter delivered, Windsor Castle
The first airmail letter ever to be delivered is handed to the Postmaster of Windsor, to whom it is addressed, on the East Lawn of Windsor Castle

Loading the Harvest Wagon - Arthur W Redgate
Oil on Canvas 40.6 x 66

Traditional Cornish round houses, Veryan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thomas Hardys cottage, Bockhampton, near Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Mud village, Sanga region, Dogon, Mali, Africa

Lady and Blossom 1925
A girl, wearing a straw cloche hat with a two colour double brim and ornamented with a broad hatband and ribbon bow, smells some apple blossom

Hoffmann / Augustus / Soup
THE STORY OF AUGUSTUS WHO WOULD NOT HAVE ANY SOUP "...& on the fifth day he was dead!"

Hoffmann / Suck-A-Thumb
THE STORY OF LITTLE SUCK-A- THUMB The great, long, red-legg d scissor-man cuts off Conrads thumbs

Hoffmann / Johnny Head-Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johnny falls into the river, much to the bewilderment of the fish

USA, Kentucky, Lexington, View of hay bales in field (Large format sizes available)

Pigs - Gloucester Old Spot piglets sucking from sow Morteon Show UK
MAB-289 Pigs - Gloucester Old Spot piglets sucking from sow Morteon Show, UK Mark Boulton Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Croft, Old Clachan, Culloden, Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Traditional Lithuanian farmsteads from the Zemaitija region, Lithuanian Open Air Museum, Rumsiskes, near Kaunas, Lithuania, Baltic States, Europe

Thatched cottages, Otterton, south Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Hat Wireless 1930S
A man tunes into his hat radio!

Surgery Cures Stupidity
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain!

Hoffmann / Inky Boys / Story
THE STORY OF THE INKY BOYS The great Agrippa dips the boys in his enormous ink well

Hoffmann / Shock / Head / Pete
SHOCK HEADED PETER..." Never once has comb d his hair"

Typical thatched Irish cottage near Glencolumbkille, County Donegal, Ulster, Republic of Ireland (Eire), Europe

A combine harvester in Weybourne in Norfolk UK
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Thatched cottage, Selworthy, Exmoor National Park, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Thomas Hardys cottage, Bockhampton, near Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Hoffmann / Johnny Head Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johhny collides with a dog

Hoffmann / Man Shooting
The Story of the Man that Went out Shooting

Madimba - Congo - Pipe-smoking lady
A rather powerful looking lady from the Congo, smoking a pipe and carrying a large wicker basket on her head. She is the wife of the Chief of the Mpongo Tribe of Kibweta, Madimba, Congo, Africa

Bee Skep
David Chubb making Bee-Skeps on his farm in the Cotswolds

Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, 1876 (oil on canvas)
XIR36481 Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, 1876 (oil on canvas) by Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919); 131x175 cm; Musee d Orsay, Paris, France; French, out of copyright

Busy Summer Morning on The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Date: 1914

Retro poster, Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte
Retro poster for Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte, character from HMS Pinafore. 1960s

Swedish Church Mission, Mnene, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Group of people assembled after a baptism ceremony. Date: circa 1910

Cats enjoying a dinner party on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Mr Pastry, aka Richard Hearne, with lion
Mr Pastry, aka the comic actor Richard Hearne (1908-1979), with a lion. Date: circa 1960s

Saucy and silly seaside postcard with cheeky caption
A Young man heads out to sea in a small rowing boat named the Saucy Sue - she instructs him: " Mind you don t goo too far, Darling!

Vintage Commer truck with hay bales, Hawea Flat, near Wanaka, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

Women brickmakers in the Black Country
Women brickmakers at work in the Black Country -- south Staffordshire and north Worcestershire

Lord Brooke, later 6th Earl of Warwick
Lord Brooke (Leopold Guy Francis Maynard Greville, 1882-1928) who married Miss Elfrida Marjorie Eden on 29 April 1909 at St Margarets Church, Westminster

Geisha girls at the seaside, Japan
Two Geisha girls in elegant Western-style striped bathing costumes recline on a studio beach set

Near Haslemere, Surrey
Artist: Shalders, George - Title: Near Haslemere, Surrey - Date: N/A - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 86.4 x 133.4

Childhoods Treasures
Artist: Stokes, Marianne - Title: Childhoods Treasures - Date: 1886 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on canvas 68.6 x 127

Guinea Pig - babies
JD-15324 Guinea Pig - babies John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Traditional beehive house of the Dorze people made entirely from organic materials, Chencha mountains, Ethiopia, Africa

Potato Clamp
Men storing potatoes, covering clamps of them with straw on a farm in Surrey, England

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Mexico, Jalisco, Puerto Vallarta, Frosted glass of a margarita cocktail served with ice and slice of lime with whole limes at side

Adoration of the Shepherd, 1476-1479. Artist: Hugo van der Goes
Adoration of the Shepherd, 1476-1479. Central panel of the Portinari Altarpiece. From the collection of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Old English Sheepdog and lamb
Unusual Friends - Old English Sheepdog and lamb. 1950s

Amanzimtoti River, Natal Province, South Africa
Amanzimtoti (Manzimtoti) River, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1925

Farmers in grass coats, Japan
Three farmers in grass coats, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Mangalica
Old breed of domestic pig called Mangalica

Picture No. 10897440
DOG - Border collie puppies sitting in a row on straw (6 weeks) Date:

Shepherd fitting lamb-skin to motherless lamb in Angmering, April 1934 George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: Garland N8974

Silverback Lowland Gorilla crouching on straw, holding grape bunch stem, front view

A Shetland Peat Carrier
A Woman of the Shetland Islands carring turves of peat in a wicker back pack basket. She does her knitting whilst she walks (possible some distance). Date: circa 1910s

Fruit basket; work of Caravaggio. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan Painting Naturalism of XVII century, Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods, Europe, First and Second Millennium A.D

Middlesex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898

Women rice planters walk along a road to work in Bali
Five young women rice planters walk along a road to work in Bali, Indonesia. They wear Asian conican straw hats. Some of the girls are barefoot. Date: circa 1985

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"Straw: A Versatile Material That Connects Cultures and Nurtures Life" From the picturesque shores of Sennen Cove in Cornwall, England, to the enchanting Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset, it has been an integral part of our lives. Picture No. 10983325 captures its rustic charm as it adorns a traditional thatched roof, blending seamlessly with the idyllic countryside. In Hereford Bull & Cow 1912 (Picture No. 11073026), we witness how straw played a crucial role in animal husbandry, providing comfort and insulation for these magnificent creatures. Its humble presence reminds us of the deep-rooted connection between humans and animals throughout history. Venturing further into Europe, we find ourselves amidst the quaint village of Old Alresford in Hampshire, England. Here, straw finds new purpose as bedding for livestock or even as material for crafting intricate sculptures like Hoffmann's Augustus Soup (Picture No. 11768877). This juxtaposition showcases both its practicality and artistic potential. But straw's influence extends far beyond borders; it transcends cultures and continents. In Japan's Komuso Buddhist monks' tradition (Picture No. 11073026), they don woven hats made from straw called "Tengai. " These symbolic headpieces represent humility and detachment while fostering spiritual growth. Returning to rural landscapes closer to home brings us to Cross Farm where a young boy tenderly feeds lambs nestled amidst soft golden strands (Picture No. 10983325). The innocence captured here speaks volumes about how this simple material nurtures life itself – sustaining not only animals but also our sense of compassion and responsibility towards nature. Finally, let us not forget our curly-tailed friends. Berkshire piglets revel joyfully amidst heaps of fragrant straw (Picture No. 11768877). Their playful antics remind us that even within their world exists an appreciation for the simple pleasures that straw provides.