flax

7 photos and 6 illustrations tagged flax, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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1897

2013

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British Library digitised image from page 171 of "The Wonderland of the Antipodes; and other sketches of travel in the North Island of New Zealand ... With map and ... illustrations, etc" from British Library uploaded November 2013
British Library digitised image from page 169 of "The Wonderland of the Antipodes; and other sketches of travel in the North Island of New Zealand ... With map and ... illustrations, etc" from British Library uploaded November 2013
British Library digitised image from page 116 of "The Wonderland of the Antipodes; and other sketches of travel in the North Island of New Zealand ... With map and ... illustrations, etc" from British Library uploaded November 2013
British Library digitised image from page 187 of "New Zealand, its physical geography, geology and natural history, with special reference to the results of Government Expeditions in the provinces of Auckland and Nelson ... Translated from the German orig from British Library uploaded November 2013
British Library digitised image from page 624 of "Voyageurs anciens et modernes, ou Choix des relations de voyages ... depuis le cinquième siècle avant Jésus-Christ jusqu'au dix-neuvième siècle, avec biographies, notes et indications iconographiques, par from British Library uploaded November 2013
British Library digitised image from page 818 of "Voyageurs anciens et modernes, ou Choix des relations de voyages ... depuis le cinquième siècle avant Jésus-Christ jusqu'au dix-neuvième siècle, avec biographies, notes et indications iconographiques, par from British Library uploaded November 2013
Alpha Minn from Mennonite Church USA Archives uploaded May 2013
Land Army girl winnowing flax at the Drouin flax mill, Drouin, Victoria from National Library of Australia uploaded September 2011
Land Army girls employed at the Drouin flax mill, Drouin, Victoria from National Library of Australia uploaded September 2011
Harvest Time from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded July 2011
Sioux in Flaxfield (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded December 2009
Spinning, Cap à l'Aigle, QC, about 1895 from Musée McCord Stewart Museum uploaded February 2009
The gardens, Masterton, between 1923-1928 from National Library NZ on The Commons uploaded February 2009

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Sioux in Flaxfield (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Art Siegel said:
From the proximity to the last picture of Horse's Ghost at the Poplar, Montana (Fort Peck Indian Reservation)August,1912 fair, this is likely also from near Poplar. Flax farming was a program being promoted on the reservation by the U.S. government to turn the residents into farmers.

Spinning, Cap à l'Aigle, QC, about 1895

from Musée McCord Stewart Museum

anjoudiscus said:
Excellente et belle image !
Howard33 said:
Just one more job that is no longer necessary. They had to spin thread or yarn, weave the cloth, make the garment and then wash, hang it to dry, and iron it until it wore out. Most young women these days never spin, weave, sew, wash, dry, or iron anymore and even if they do, there is a machine that does most of the work. Maybe the good old days have been replaced by something better. The same is true with food. How many cooks begin to prepare a meal by going out back to kill a chicken and then pull some vegetables on the way back to the house?

Harvest Time

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

21 older comments, and then…
Marta said:
Beautiful picturea of long time ago........
Jack Falstaff said:
But, please, what are they harvesting? Is it flax?
Angela Orlando said:
Hard ... hot ... work.... done together it is accomplished!!! Wonderful lifestyle photo... wonderful old B&W!!!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Jack Falstaff May have to defer to someone with better agrarian knowledge, but just looks like hay to me...
Jack Falstaff said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons Could be, but hay has to be 'made'(dried in the field) for some time after mowing and that is/was generally done by raking (hence 'hay rake') and piling in rows which were then turned with pitch forks on a regular basis until it was dry enough to cart and rick. Here the mowers are still evident, so the crop (which has a rather long stem for grass) has only just been cut and is now being bundled (not raked into piles) by the ladies. Also, it looks as if the bundles are tied (no way would that be done with hay) because they are being held at the top.

The gardens, Masterton, between 1923-1928

from National Library NZ on The Commons

Brenda Anderson said:
In the area noted above, where the man is seen rowing a boat: and my husband rowing a boat at about the same point. :) -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)
Bart Ams said:
12 years later: Cool!