Historical Agricultural Practices

Vintage illustrations of diverse agricultural activities, including tea processing and gold mining, reflecting historical labor and tools.

Tea Culture in India: 1. Bridge over the River Ool, on the Road to Kulu. 2. Rolling the leaves by hand. 3. Weighing and packing for the London market. 4. Coolies carrying tea to the staging-place at Palumpore. Date: 1883

Getting a wagon up a steep slope, Romania. Europe. Travel to the mining regions of western Transylvania by Jacques Elisee Reclus, 1873

Tea Culture in India: 1. Bridge over the River Ool, on the Road to Kulu. 2. Rolling the leaves by hand. 3. Weighing and packing for the London market. 4. Coolies carrying tea to the staging-place at Palumpore. Date: 1883

Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields. The apparatus they are using is called a Long Tom. From L'Illustration Paris 18 June 1853. Wood engraving

Threshing Agriculture in Dakota, USA: Threshing. Image source: Harpers Monthly magazine march 1880. Copyright: xZoonar.com/J.xSandvikx 2762770

Painting Exhibition of 1857, Threshing machine in Burgundy, vintage engraving. Painting Exhibition of 1857, Threshing machine in Burgundy, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1857. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10674196

Agriculture in Dakota, USA: Threshing. Image source: Harpers Monthly magazine march 1880

Panama Canal: cutting a channel to divert the river Chagres during the de Lesseps attempt to dig the Panama Canal. West Indian labourers filling trolleys with spoil. Wood engraving 1888.

Panama Canal: Scene showing West Indian labourers purchasing refreshments, Wood engraving, 1888

Gold prospectors along a river, United States of America, illustration by Jules Gaildrau from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 532, Volume XXI, May 7, 1853.

Steam-powered threshing machine by Wilkinson, Wright and Comp of Boston, America, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original...

1870S 1878 Farm Harvest Scene Threshing Grain Illustration By O. D. Steinberger

The Metropolitan High-Level Sewer : work commences near Victoria Park in northeast London. Date: 1859

Teeplantage in Japan im Jahre 1870, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Hydraulic gold mining in California, engraving, circa 1875

Hydraulic gold mining in California. Using strong jets of water to wash down the gold-bearing rock greatly reduced the labour of digging. Engraving c1875.

Cradling for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1849. Artist: Unknown

'Making Up Rafts on the Susquehanna River. A Scene on the Line of the Erie Railroad', 1883. Artist: Unknown.

Engraving depicting a rural water-powered flour mill. Dated 19th century

Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Months of the year, Ploughman and a sower working in the field, verso middle bottom - stamped, print, prints, height 69 mm, width 92 mm, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, papier, houtgravure

Agriculture: rice paddies in China, soaking the rice in an irrigation ditch. Engraving by J. June after A. Heckel.

Whitney's cotton gin, 1793.. Prints. 1869-12-18. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Slavery, Cotton, Inventions, African American men, Cotton machinery, Slaves , United States, Cotton gins, Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825

Beginnings of Metallurgy - A Primitive Smithy

The cultivation of indigo in India. Ploughing in the factory zyraths. Date: 1881

Engraving depicting a current wheel driving a mill on shore. Dated 19th century

Working with horses in the Bradley Mine, near Bilston, Staffordshire England Date: 1853

Australia. 19th century. Gold Rush. Prospectors looking for gold nuggets. Engraving.

The Slide, fishing in the 1880s

AGRICULTURAL PICTURES: THRASHING, 1846

Landwirtschaftliche Geräte und Maschinen 1890: Grasmähmaschine, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

An engraving depicting a steam excavator working on a railway embankment. Dated 19th century

An iron forge in which metal linings are being applied to the rims of wheels. Engraving by R. Bénard after Harguinier.

The Transvaal gold fields, South Africa showing diggers at work. Date: 1875

Structure of the Staffordville dam breaking, water flooding the valley, March 27, 1877, United States of America, illustration by Meaulle illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1783, Volume LXIX, April 28, 1877.

Excavating the Panama Canal Illustration Circa 1889

Coopers at work. Engraving 1837.

Landwirtschaftliche Geräte im 19. Jahrhundert, Dreschmaschine oder Drescher: Dampfgetriebener Drescher mit Strohelevator, digital restaurierte Reprodu...

Threshing with ash wood flails in a barn. A labour-intensive winter occupation for farm labourers which was gradually made obsolete with the introduction of threshing machines. From The Illustrated London News, 1846.

Construction of the Panama Canal, steam excavators at Mindi, Central America, woodcut circa 1871

The Gold Mine of Vigra in Wales, 1869, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Oil well in Pennsylvania, America, in 1870, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Construction of the Katwijk Channel, 1805. The construction of the Katwijk Channel (an indoor lock) between Katwijk to the sea and Katwijk aan den Rijn, 1805. View of the dunes in the dunes. In the foreground, some building supervisors or engineers follow work with binoculars.

Construction of the Trans-Caspian Railway (Central Asian Railway): laying the track. Begun in 1879, in 1888 it reached Smarkand, and in 1898 it extended to Tashkent and Andijan. Built by the Russians. From 'Le Journal de la Jeunesse', Paris, 1888. Engraving

Oil extraction, Woodford wells and Philip, Pennsylvania, vintage engraving. Oil extraction, Woodford wells and Philip, Pennsylvania, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679464

Copper mine or quarry, near Montreal, Canada - from a sketch by our special artist, G. A. Andrews, 1860. Excitement due to the '...discovery of an immense deposit of copper ore in the hillside near the village of Acton, Canada East...Excursion-trains run from Montreal expressly to visit the mines; and, as the proprietor makes a charge for admission...he is likely to make a rich harvest of gold and silver, as well as of copper, by his discovery...The face of a considerable hill has been laid open, and what appears a large stone quarry is being worked by about a hundred men, who are continually

Construction of Panama Canal, executed by the company of Ferdinand-Marie de Lesseps (1805-1894). Engraving, 1886.

The Egypt Pacha visiting the work of the drilling of the isthmus of Suez (registered title) | News. (Title of the whole)

Thurber & Co cannery in Moorestown, New Jersey, here the loading department, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

A farmer in Bengal irrigating his land. Wood engraving.

MARKING LOGS AT SKIDWAY, LUMBERING, CANADA, NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVING

Casting a roll for a rolling mill for steel rails, Bilston, Staffordshre, England. Engraving, 1870.

Miners working in a timbered level. From 'Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners' by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.

Cradling for gold in the Californian gold fields Wood engraving published Paris 1849

A tyre-expanding machine. Wood engraving.

The Shellfish Supplies: shellfish-catchers' cottage at Canty Bay, Scotland, 1862. 'Shellfish is the popular name bestowed by unscientific persons on the Crustaceans and Mollusca...The taking of shellfish...affords occupation to the old men and youngsters of the fishing villages, and these folks may be seen in the fine days assiduously waiting on the lobster-traps and crab-cages...Immense quantities of all the edible mollusca are annually collected by women and children in order to supply the large inland cities. Great sacks full of periwinkles, whelks, &c., are sent on by railway to Manc

Engraving depicting the milking shed of Laycock's Dairy Farm in Highbury, London. Dated 19th Century

Fowler's New Subsoil Draining Plough, 1850. 'An experimental trial of Fowler's Patent Draining Plough and Machinery took place...in a field at the back of Mr. John Smith's iron foundry, at Uxbridge now part of west London, where considerable improvements have been effected, under the immediate direction of the inventor. The trial..was attended by a large and most respectable body of agriculturists..who watched the operations of the machine with great interest, and were unanimously of opinion, that, when the result of a few more experiments had enabled the inventor to apportion the strength o

Wrought Iron: Carrying balls of iron from furnace to the squeezer, Phoenix Iron and Bridge Works, Phoenixville, Pa. From 'The Science Record', New York, 1873.

Chilean mill to process gold mineral, California. United States of America, drawing by Gustave Adolphe Chassevent (1818 - 1901) Trip to California, 1859 by Louis Simonin (1830-1886) Le Tour du Monde 1862

An engraving depicting men washing for gold in the New Zealand Gold Fields. Dated 19th century

Exterior of a Californian gold miner's hut. Engraving, 1853.

Obras de desmonte por trabajadores chinos durante la construcción del ferrocarril transiberiano. Grabado en blanco y negro de Octubre de 1895.

LOADING A COTTON STEAMER

Old Shaduf for irrigation on the Nile River, Egypt. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Loading the hay cart during harvest Date: circa 1840

An engraving depicting the construction of the Panama Canal: excavator and earth transporters at Tabemilla. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting the grinding and sifting rice. Dated 19th century

Scene on an American tobacco plantation. From A Pomet 'A Compleat History of Drugs' London 1725. First edition French. Pomet physician to Louis XIV. Male, female and child slaves rolling dried tobacco into ropes On right is Tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum). Engraving

Threshing Floor at Yebna, Palestine, circa 1880

Cotton merchants at their stalls, surrounded by bales of raw cotton, Mumbai (Bombay), India. Engraving, London, 1901.

Engraving depicting a Sicilian sulphur mine.

Steam-powered threshing machine by Wilkinson, Wright and Comp of Boston, c. 1880, America, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

A stage in salt preparation in England, involving a 'saltern' where the salt is dried at Lymington, Hampshire. 1782

Panning for gold during the Californian Gold Rush of 1849. From 'The Illustrated London News' 6 January 1849. Wood engraving

The Implement Yard at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Leeds, England, 1861

Fascist Italy. Workers preparing the demolition of a hillside to build the tunnel of the Apennines, new railway line Bologna-Florence, one of the great engineering feats of the fascist regime. Engraving.

Clocks: a watch factory at Waltham, Massachusetts. Wood engraving by A J H.

Detail of the illustration in the vignette of a historical stock certificate of a sugar mill, design showing sugar cane being loaded on a wagon drawn by oxen, in front of a factory scene from a colony in the 19th Century, The American Sugar Refining Company, ASR, 1961, New Jersey, USA, North America

Testing the strength of rope. The labourers turn the capstan while the (natural) philosophers adjust the steelyard (left) and watch the test length against a rule. Dated 1755.

Cement manufacturing (From: The Construction of the Saint Isaac's Cathedral) by Montferrand, Auguste, de (1786-1858)/ Private Collection/ 1845/ France/ Lithograph/ Classicism/ Architecture, Interior,Genre

Construction of the new Westminster Bridge. Date: 1855

industry metal moulding of a mirror plate wood engraving after ""Scientific American"" 19th century,

Machine for the portage on the Susquehanna. Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson.. Milbert, Jacques Gérard (1766-1840). Eno, Amos F., 1836-1915. Prints. 1828 - 1829. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Susquehanna River, Portages, Boats , 1800-1899, Hoisting machinery , 1800-1899, Landscape , New York (State) , New York , 1800-1899

mining, diamonds, diamond miners in Brazil, circa 1800, wood engraving, circa 1870,

THE LEYCETT COLLIERY DISASTER, NEAR NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE

Gold miners on the Rhine river, Alsace, France. Drawing by Frédéric Théodore LIX (1830 - 1897) Through Alsace and Lorraine, 1884 By Charles Grad (1842 - 1890) Le Tour du Monde 1886

Inside a Cheshire salt mine, 1889. Artist: Unknown

A silver mine: miners digging. Wood engraving.

An engraving depicting a sulphur kiln in Sicily, Italy: the sulphur-bearing rock was first broken up and then exposed to heat in the kiln until the sulphur was sweated out - a process known as liquation. Dated 19th century

Banknote vignette showing two men working in a mine ca. 1824-37 Attributed to Asher Brown Durand American. Banknote vignette showing two men working in a mine 393926

Female pithead workers, Creusot coal mines, eastern France. Engraving, Paris, 1885.

'A Smeaton-type diving bell being lowered so that the bed of the River Thames could be examined during the construction of the Thames Tunnel 1825-1843. Engraving, c1885.'

A Chinese tea plantation with workers watering, picking and firing the tea. Lithograph by E. Gilks, c. 1850, after B. Clayton after Piqua.

An engraving depicting the making of rice-paper in China. The plant is Aralia papyrifern from whose pulp the rice-paper was made. Dated 19th century

Rice cultivation in India Date: 1877

Road split for a water mill on a river. On the left a shepherd with a herd of pigs and a man with a child; Right a group of talking men. 33rd print of a series of 36 prints of landscapes, spread over six parts.

GEORGE STEPHENSON Engineer experimenting with the safety lamp in a mine Date: 1781 - 1848

The Great Flood (or Inundation) at Sheffield on 11th March 1864 when the Dale Dyke Dam broke flooding Sheffield. View of workmen searching for tools at Loxley. Date: 1864

The California Gold Rush, Cradle Rocking, 1849 American History

Sawmill in the Hollental valley in the Black Forest, around 1860, Germany, Historical, digitally enhanced reproduction from an original from around 1860.

Separate from chaff and choirs. Two farmers are in a landscape in a landscape to separate the wheat from the corn. In the background a woman and chickens at a shed.

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