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Threshing grain near Jacobs Well, c1900. From Journey in All Lands - Palestine. [Realistic Travels, London, Cape Town, Bombay, Melbourne, Toronto, c1900]
Threshing Corn in the Ancient Manner, 1911. From Chile, by G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A. F.R.G.S. [T. Fisher Terrace, London, 1911]
Threshing rice, Amarapura, Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel CoThreshing rice, Amarapura, Burma, 1908. Stereoscopic card. Detail
Threshing out the corn, South Africa, 18th century (1931). Plate taken from Historic Farms of South Africa, by Dorothea Fairbridge, published by Oxford University Press (London, 1931)
The Annamese way of reaping and threshing rice, Annam, Vietnam, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire
The winnowing of the grain after threshing, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & UnderwoodThe winnowing of the grain after threshing, Egypt, 1905. Here is the next step in the process of harvesting in Egypt, The mixture of broken straw
Threshing in Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & UnderwoodThreshing in Egypt, 1905. The farm where we find this Egyptian peasant threshing his grain is in the fertile Nile valley of lower Egypt. Stereoscopic card. Detail
Farmers wives at work, Iwakuni, Japan, 1904. Artist: Underwood & UnderwoodFarmers wives at work, Iwakuni, Japan, 1904. Farmers wives prepare barley (prior to processing it into grain) by pulling it through iron combs. Stereoscopic card. Detail
The Seasons, c1050, (1843). Artist: Henry ShawThe Seasons, c1050, (1843). Copy of a manuscript showing agricultural occupations from July to December. July, mowing and making hay; August, reaping; September, hunting; October, hawking; November
The Labours of the Months: July, c. 1580. Artist: Italian masterThe Labours of the Months: July, c. 1580. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London
Portable threshing machine, c1910. Machines of this type were used in rickyards or fields, and powered by a portable steam engine
Rape threshing, 1st November 1813. Artist: Robert HavellRape threshing, 1st November 1813. A crowd is flailing and gathering rape; men carry a huge bundle of it. On the left in the foreground two women help with the harvesting by passing the grain through
Threshing machine by Andrew Meikle, Scottish inventor and millwright, 1811. Top: original form of the machine powered by horses. Bottom: improved form powered by a water wheel
The Harvesters Vase from Crete, 16th centuryThe Harvesters Vase from Crete, now in the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, 16th century
Detail from the Book of the Dead showing the Elysian FieldsDetail from the Book of the Dead showing Ani farming in the Elysian Fields. He is reaping corn with a sickle and threshing corn with oxen
Crop rotation: threshing rye grass for seed, 1855. Crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops alternately on the same patch of ground over a cycle of several years in order to protect