Pea Collection

Pea Apparatus by William Heath Robinson
An interesting and elegant apparatus designed to overcome once for all the difficulties of conveying green peas to the mouth

Lear / Owl & Pussycat / C19
The Owl & the Pussy-Cat went to sea, In a beautiful pea- green boat; They took some honey, & plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note

The Owl and The Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note

Varieties of edible-podded pea, or sugar pea. Chromolithograph, by G. Severeyns, of Brussels, from Ernst Benary, Album Benary. Date: 1876-86

Annual and Biannual flowers
A wonderful array of garden flowers in bloom including chrysanthemums, foxgloves (digitalis), hollyhocks, pansies, sweet peas, gladioli, iris, petunias and nasturtiums. Date: 1930

TV DINNER, 1954. Packaging for Swansons turkey TV dinner, 1954, designed to resemble a television set

A Plan of the town of Sheffield in the county of York drawn by W. Fairbank 1797. Engraved by Thomas Harris
Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library:s 45 S

London in fog - a real Pea Souper. The statue of Queen Boudicca of the Iceni on the banks of the River Thames at Westminster at is rended into dramatic silhouette

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California. Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as Migrant

Varieties of pea (Pisum sativum) - second. Chromolithograph, by G. Severeyns, of Brussels, from Ernst Benary, Album Benary. Date: 1876-86

Princess and the Pea
I have scarcely closed my eyes all night, complains the princess, proving that she is a REAL princess, so sensitive that single a pea beneath her mattress keeps her awake

Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), Austrian botanist and founder of genetics. Mendel, the abbot of an abbey in Brno, carried out breeding experiments with pea plants (held in hand)

view of a Samoan Pe a tattoo, 19th Century (photo)
1079611 view of a Samoan Pe a tattoo, 19th Century (photo); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Pe a is the popular name of the traditional male tattoo of Samoa)

Mendels peas. Historical artwork of the peas (Pisum sp.) used by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in his experiments into heredity. He cross-bred peas that produced yellow (A) and green (B) peas

Advertisement for Rices Seeds (colour litho) (recto of 3601175)
3601174 Advertisement for Rices Seeds (colour litho) (recto of 3601175) by American School, (19th century); Collection of the New-York Historical Society, USA; eNew York Historical Society; American

Thames Embankment by night - View toward Westminster, London
Thames Embankment by night - View toward the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London. Note the elctricity saving of only lighting every other light. Date: circa 1910s

Roast meal

Butterfly Pea flower - This is the purple variety. In India seeds and roots used as a purgative
DH-3573 Butterfly Pea flower - This is the purple variety. In India seeds and roots used as a purgative and roots as a cathartic and diuretic

Peas Petit Pois in a pod
LA-1081 Peas - Petit Pois in a open pod Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Ducks and Green Peas by Miss E Mitchell
" Ducks and Green Peas" by Miss E Mitchell. A girl shells peas while ducklings cluster round her hoping to eat some of the fallers. Date: 1890

"I Have Hardly Closed My Eyes The Whole Night! Heaven Knows What Was In The Bed
" I Have Hardly Closed My Eyes The Whole Night! Heaven Knows What Was In The Bed. I Seemed To Be Lying Upon Some Hard Thing, And My Whole Body Is Black And Blue This Morning

Spring vetchling or spring pea, Orobus vernus, and bitter vetch or heath pea, Orobus tuberosus
5856069 Spring vetchling or spring pea, Orobus vernus, and bitter vetch or heath pea, Orobus tuberosus; (add.info.: Spring vetchling or spring pea, Orobus vernus, and bitter vetch or heath pea)

Field pea, Pisum arvense
5855202 Field pea, Pisum arvense; (add.info.: Field pea, Pisum arvense. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence)

Flat pea, Lathyrus sylvestris
5856071 Flat pea, Lathyrus sylvestris; (add.info.: Flat pea, Lathyrus sylvestris. Chromolithograph from Carl Lindman's "Bilder ur Nordens Flora" (Pictures of Northern Flora), Stockholm

Meadow vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis (Gesse des pres) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James
FLO4698197 Meadow vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis (Gesse des pres) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany

Everlasting pea, Lathyrus latifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from " The Naturalist's Pocket
FLO4641208 Everlasting pea, Lathyrus latifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from " The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1800.; (add.info.: Everlasting pea)

Leaves and pink flowers of Babchi, or scurf pea, Psoralea corylifolia L
5855631 Leaves and pink flowers of Babchi, or scurf pea, Psoralea corylifolia L.; (add.info.: Leaves and pink flowers of Babchi, or scurf pea, Psoralea corylifolia L)

Leaves and stems of Babchi, or scurf pea, Psoralea corylifolia L
5855630 Leaves and stems of Babchi, or scurf pea, Psoralea corylifolia L.; (add.info.: Leaves and stems of Babchi, or scurf pea, Psoralea corylifolia L., used in Chinese medicine and Indian Ayurveda)

Purple hairstreak butterfly, Neozephyrus quercus, green silver lines moth, Pseudoips prasinana, green oak moth
FLO4638667 Purple hairstreak butterfly, Neozephyrus quercus, green silver lines moth, Pseudoips prasinana, green oak moth, Tortrix viridana, dun-bar, Cosmia trapezina, and scalloped hazel

Meadow vetchling or meadow pea, Lathyrus pratensis
5856070 Meadow vetchling or meadow pea, Lathyrus pratensis; (add.info.: Meadow vetchling or meadow pea, Lathyrus pratensis)

Ruby tiger moth, Phragmatobia fuliginosa, wall butterfly, Lasiommata megera, white spot, Hadena albimacula
FLO4638816 Ruby tiger moth, Phragmatobia fuliginosa, wall butterfly, Lasiommata megera, white spot, Hadena albimacula, and Duke of Burgundy butterfly, Hamearis lucina, on sweet pea

Garden pea varieties, Pisum sativum (P. majus and P. minus). Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical
FLO4668756 Garden pea varieties, Pisum sativum (P. majus and P. minus). Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Fruits and seeds including mango (mague), cashew (cashew), mombin, canarium nut (canarium nut), pea (pea), bean (bean)
FLO4684763 Fruits and seeds including mango (mague), cashew (cashew), mombin, canarium nut (canarium nut), pea (pea), bean (bean), walnut (walnut), pistachio (pistachio), peanut (peanut, peanut)

Fork plant
Wieteke de Kogel

Pea time
Wieteke de Kogel

Hungry!
Wieteke de Kogel

Fresh Gathered Peas, Young Hastings, published 1795. Creator: Giovanni Vendramini
Fresh Gathered Peas, Young Hastings, published 1795

Large-scale pea fields, near San Juan Bautista, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near San Juan Bautista, California. Large-scale pea fields

Pea fields of the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Pea fields of the Imperial Valley, California. Tamarisk trees are commonly planted along the irrigation ditches for shade so necessary in this desert valley. Note water barrels

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California. Work for Japanese, live on Japanese ranches. Sixty men in this gang

Migrant pea pickers, near Westley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant pea pickers from many states line up with their filled hampers on the edge of the field. They wait their turn for weighing. Near Westley, California

Migratory labor camp during pea harvest, FSA, Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA). Migratory labor camp during pea harvest. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch... near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, 1939
Grower's camp for pickers on large pea ranch along ditch bank. Growers camps in Imperial Valley and elsewhere have been much improved this year largely because of influence of Farm Security

One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of a row of tents, home of a pea picker. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Picker carrying peas to the weighmaster, near Santa Clara, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Picker carrying peas to the weighmaster. Near Santa Clara, California

En-route to pea harvest in Imperial Valley, U.S. 99, Tulare, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Entered California the fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperial Valley. Car broke down. "Want to get back to Missouri if they ever get the money." U.S. 99. Tulare, California

Large-scale pea fields, near San Juan Bautista, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Large-scale pea fields. Near San Juan Bautista, California

Large-scale pea fields, near San Juan Bautista, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near San Juan Bautista, California. Large-scale pea fields

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From Lear's whimsical Owl & Pussycat to C19 pea apparatus by William Heath Robinson, the humble pea has left its mark throughout history. Just like a Plan of the town of Sheffield in 1797 engraved by Thomas Harris, peas have been an essential part of our culinary landscape for centuries. Whether it's the delightful varieties of edible-podded peas or the revolutionary TV dinner packaging from 1954 resembling a television set, peas have always found their way into our hearts and stomachs. In the enchanting tale of The Owl and The Pussycat, a simple pea played a pivotal role in their romantic adventure. Similarly, Gregor Mendel, an Austrian botanist known as the father of genetics, conducted groundbreaking experiments with peas that revolutionized our understanding of heredity. Peas also hold significance beyond literature and science; they symbolize resilience during challenging times. Like London engulfed in fog or destitute pea pickers in California struggling to make ends meet during difficult times - these stories remind us that even amidst adversity, there is hope. Just like Princess and the Pea tested royalty through layers of mattresses, different varieties of peas continue to surprise us with their diverse flavors and textures. And let's not forget about annual and biannual flowers that add vibrant colors to gardens worldwide. So next time you enjoy a plateful of sweet green goodness or marvel at how versatile this tiny legume can be – remember its rich history spanning cultures and generations. From Lear to Mendel, from Swansons' TV dinner innovation to Fairbank's intricate map engraving – every aspect showcases just how extraordinary something as small as a they are truly be.