Pickers Collection

A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. Twort
A bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935

Hop Picking into Bins
Kent hop pickers picking into bins

Hop Picking fun for all the family. Young and old pick hops by the binful. 1950s

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

Hop Picking in Kent - Boughton District Date: 1907

Fire Safety Hop Pickers
Notice to Hop-pickers giving advice as to fire prevention and what to do in case of a fire. Issued by Fire Offices Committee Fire Protection Association

Strawberry Pickers

Hop Pickers 1900
A group of Kentish hop pickers

Hop Pickers Tally Off
Kent hop pickers " tallying off"

Strawberry Pickers
A boy and a man picking strawberries in a field, with punnets strapped to their backs, on a farm near Cheddar, Somerset, England

Hop picking at Maplescombe Farm, Farningham, Kent. 1938

Women hop pickers in Beltring, Kent. Each worker has a gas mask over their shoulder in box in case of a gas attack. 1939

Kent Hop Pickers
Hop-pickers in Kent collect their pay

Jolly Grape Pickers
A grinning group of grape pickers pose for the camera in a vineyard in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Hop pickers in East Peckham. Young and old working in the hop field. 1 September 1938

Isles of Scilly, from the series Home Bulbs for Home Gardens (colour litho)
MAN464444 Isles of Scilly, from the series Home Bulbs for Home Gardens (colour litho) by Moores, A.A. (fl.1920s); Manchester Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: See 464446, 464445, 464501, 464500 & 464444)

Pulling the Hops - Hop Pickers - West Malling, Kent. Date: 1938

Hops are picked in Surrey near Farnham Palace and sold at Weyhill Fair. Date: 1891

Picking Lavender - Wallington, Kent
Picking Lavender in Wallington, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Hop Pickers 1907
Workers in a Kentish hop garden sorting hops from a large basket into an upturned umbrella

Poster advertising Vermouth Cinzano, Torino (colour litho)
PER205390 Poster advertising Vermouth Cinzano, Torino (colour litho) by Cassiers, Hendrick (1858-1944); Private Collection; Belgian, out of copyright

Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, USA
Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire
circa 1910s

Tea harvest on Sahambavy estate near Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, Africa

Woman picking red chilies, Bogura, Bangladesh

Hop-picking, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Hop-picking, 1858. Seasonal workers. Beautiful as the hop-gardens appear when the hops are in their pride and prime, and ere a pole has been pulled or a bine cut

Hop-pickers Resting - drawn by Phiz, 1858. Creator: Hablot Knight Browne
Hop-pickers Resting - drawn by Phiz, 1858. Seasonal farm workers. Here meet together the respectable poor and the disreputable poor, the honest labourer and the thief (doing honest work now)

Hop-pickers on the Road - drawn by Phiz, 1858. Creator: Hablot Knight Browne
Hop-pickers on the Road - drawn by Phiz, 1858. Seasonal farm workers. Here meet together the respectable poor and the disreputable poor, the honest labourer and the thief (doing honest work now)

Ayant abusé du raisin de 1857, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ayant abuse du raisin de 1857, 19th century. Grape picking time - Having abused the grapes of 1857

The Vintage, in Medoc, near Bordeaux, 1854. Creator: William Thomas
The Vintage, in Medoc, near Bordeaux, 1854. Grape-picking in France. "There are no idle spectators at a vintage, all the world must work;

Filipinos cutting lettuce, near Westmorland, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Westmorland. Filipinos cutting lettuce. California

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

Cotton pickers emptying sacks, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. Cotton pickers emptying sacks at eleven a.m. Stopped from further work for the day by rain

Cherry pickers near Millville, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cherry pickers near Millville, New Jersey. The cherry crop is harvested by local families, men, women and children

Filipinos cutting lettuce, near Westmorland, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Westmorland. Filipinos cutting lettuce. California

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas

Potato field, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Potato field, where the farm members of this resettled group have the second best crop in the three leading potato counties, according to estimates of the New Jersey Agricultural State College

Migrant cotton pickers, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant cotton pickers. Texas

Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

Cotton picker, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Emptying cotton after weighing, small cotton farm, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Emptying cotton after weighing. Small cotton farm. Kern County, California

Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near Guadalupe, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese mother and daughter, agricultural workers near Guadalupe, California

Cotton checkers, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton checkers. San Joaquin Valley, California

Homesteaders of the farm group are proud of their straight potato row, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936
Hightstown, New Jersey. The homesteaders of the farm group are proud of their straight potato row. They have raised very successful crops. The farm was started in 1934

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants

Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Lettuce cutting in the Imperial Valley, California. A Filipino crew of fifty-five boys, migrants

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Some of the carrot pickers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. California

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways

Filipino gang of spinach harvesters, near Santa Maria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Santa Maria, California. Filipino gang of spinach harvesters

Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California

Berry pickers at 5 am, waiting for the truck to haul them to work, Memphis, Tennessee, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Berry pickers at 5 a.m. Waiting for the truck to haul them to work. Earn about sixty cents per day. Memphis, Tennessee

Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey, 1936 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrants from Delaware picking berries in southern New Jersey

Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime, near Radstown, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant cotton pickers at lunchtime. Near Radstown, Texas

Cotton pickers lunchtime, near Corpus Christi, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton pickers lunchtime. Near Corpus Christi, Texas

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California

One of the hundred carrot pullers in this field in the Coachella Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the hundred carrot pullers in this field in the Coachella Valley, California

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour

Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, Imperial Valley, California, 1937
Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, now also used in carrots and lettuce. Imperial Valley, California

Cabbage harvesting, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabbage harvesting. Imperial Valley, California

String of five housecars, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
String of five housecars. This group represents good conditions among pea pickers. California

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

Cotton weigher, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton weigher. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California

Peach pickers, Muscella, Georgia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Muscella, Georgia. Peach pickers

Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas, California

Loading cotton, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Loading cotton. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton weigher, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton weigher. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton picker, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picker. Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

Harvesting grapes near La Monte [i.e. Lamont], Kern County, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Harvesting grapes near La Monte [i.e. Lamont]. Kern County, California. Lithuanian contract labor

Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mexican townfolk sacking peppers near Stockton, California

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas

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"Pickers: A Glimpse into the Vibrant History of Harvesting" Step back in time to the 1950s, where hop picking was not just a job but a cherished family tradition. In F. C. Twort's "A Memory of a Hop Field, " we are transported to an era when young and old would gather together, filling bin after bin with hops, creating memories that would last a lifetime. While hop picking brought joy and excitement to families in Kent's Boughton District, it also served as a means for survival for destitute pea pickers in California. These resilient individuals, often mothers of seven children or more, worked tirelessly under the scorching sun to provide for their loved ones. Safety was always paramount during these laborious tasks. Fire Safety Hop Pickers ensured precautions were taken to prevent any mishaps while working amidst nature's bounty. Their dedication allowed everyone involved to focus on their work without worry. The allure of harvesting extended beyond hops; strawberry it also played an essential role in bringing forth delicious fruits from the fields. Their nimble fingers plucked ripe strawberries with precision and care, ensuring only the finest produce made its way into our homes. As we delve further into history, we encounter images frozen in time—Hop Pickers Tally Off—a moment captured forever that showcases both hard work and camaraderie among those who labored side by side. Maplescombe Farm became synonymous with hop picking at Farningham, Kent—an idyllic setting where families gathered year after year to partake in this age-old tradition. The sight of hop pickers diligently working against picturesque landscapes evokes nostalgia even today. In East Peckham too, young and old joined forces on September 1st, 1938—a day etched into memory—where generations came together as one united force within the hop fields. This shared experience created bonds that transcended age and time.