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'Jansson's Temptation', (Janssons Frestelse) a classic Swedish dish of potato, onion and Swedish 'anchovies', Swedish anchovies are in fact salted sprats.
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Austin Warner, Potato and Fruit Seller, Cow Keeper.<br>Croydon, Middle Row, Old shops and houses<br>c. 1888
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Potato crop in Swanley
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The Potato Shortage - Mr R G Dixon, the oldest salesman in Covent Garden, arrives at 4 o'clock in the morning.
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Jersey, potato harvesters. c1900. Six with potato forks
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Jersey, potato harvesters. c1900. Crowd with forks
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Jersey, potato harvesters. c1900. Two women with bundles by wall.
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Jersey, potato harvesters. c1900. Four with potato forks
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I'm an Energy Food says Potato Pete
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This picture, taken on 25th April 1950, shows a field of newly planted potatoes covered with over an inch of snow - near Swanley, Kent.<br>25th April 1950
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Irish bogtrotters 1812
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Irish Potato famine
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Bridget O'Donnel and children during Irish Potato famine
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0210000676 Artist:Unknown. &quotVarious vegetables, 1850. Vegetables including potato, pumpkin, radishes, and beetroot. Plate 18 from the "&quotAlbum Vilmorin"", by Pierre Phillippe Andre L'eveque de Vilmorin. (Paris, 1850)." © The British Library<br>
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'Baked Potatoes' A baked potato seller talking to a chimney-sweep, with a man behind eating a potato. From &quotCries of London", c1840. 'Baked Potatoes', &quotCries of London", c1840. <br>Credit: City of London / HIP / TopFoto
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'All Hot'. A baked potato seller with two boys. Standing on a street corner, one of the boys is eating a baked potato, while a dog stands in front of them sniffing out any scraps. From &quotCries of London", 1804. 'All Hot', &quotCries of London", 1804. <br>Credit: City of London / HIP / TopFoto
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'Lend A Hand On The Land - Make Sure Of A Full Plate', World War II poster, c1939-c1945. 'Lend A Hand On The Land - Make Sure Of A Full Plate', Wo <br>Credit: The National Archives / HIP / TopFoto
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'Rationing - Go Easy With Bread', World War II poster, c1939-c1945. 'Rationing - Go Easy With Bread', World War II poster, c19 <br>Credit: The National Archives / HIP / TopFoto
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Haywards Heath Horticultural Society's Summer show, Victoria Park, Haywards Heath, Sussex. Miss Peggy Allec riding her pony Wildfire, scoops a potato from stake during potato race.<br>9th July 1936
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The potato shortage - J. Collins, A Patriotic greengrocer, who sells potatoes at 1d per LB provided that other vegetables are bought..<br>5th March 1917
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The communal potato can<br>The baked potato can recently started by the Halstead Local Food Control Committee is doing very successful business - A great saving of bread has been effected.<br>5th February 1918
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Chips & dip
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As far as they could, retreating Soviet soldiers destroyed every bit of nourishment that they could lay their hands on, so the population and the refugees are near to starvation - Photo shows the people of a Soviet village hunting for possible nourishment among potato peels - 25 July 1941
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POTATO PANCAKES WITH CAVIARE
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The Potato Crop on Sandy Lodge Golf Course.<br>10 July 1916
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Atoms for peace progress: The successful use of atomic energy to extend storage life of potatoes is shown by the contrast between unsprouted potatoes, lower row, subjected to varying doses of gamma rays 16 months before this photograph was made, and sprouted potatoes upper row, of the same age which were not treated. Treated potatoes do not retain any radioactivity, but they do retain the original taste and nutritional value for long periods of time. A mobile trailer truck that can be moved into potato fields has been designed to treat newly dug crops.
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Bean and new potato salad on large round serving dish
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Potato planting<br>November 1934
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Materia Medica<br>Mandrake<br>A narcotic short-stemmed European solanaceous herb having a fleshy, often forked, root thought to resemble a human form. <br>Is a powerful restorative, they form an essential part of most antidotes; &quotThe cry of a full grown Mandrake is fatal to anyone who hears it"<br>A herb of the potato family found in the Mediterranean area. Once the object of many superstitions, its magical powers are now in disrepute. Women once ate its fruit to promote pregnancy and its roots were much esteemed as a love philter, a promoter of personal prosperity and aid to an oracle's powers of prophecy. <br>mandrake root: the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic <br>a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers <br><br>
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Mill Hill schoolboys keep the garden plots in order for men who have joined up.<br>Mr Watson giving a lesson in spraying potatoes. <br>14 July 1917
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Mill Hill schoolboys keep the garden plots in order for men who have joined up.<br>Potato spraying.<br>14 July 1917
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1880s eviction in Ireland with battering ram after potato famine
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The Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden from where around 2,000 ballet-goers were evacuated after firefighters rushed to an alarm caused by an exploding baked potato. *... The audience was made to stand in the street for 20 minutes midway through a performance by the San Francisco Ballet after a smoke alarm went off caused by the rogue potato which was being cooked in a microwave by a dancer.
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Potato rationing at the rate of three pounds per person per week, commenced in Britain today, Nov 10th, 1947 - Mrs Anne Allen of Kilburn is seen receiving her weekly ration of pototoes from a street trader. The trader is holding the three pound potato ration consisting of four large and 1 small potatoes<br>1947<br>
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Getting in the Surrey potato crop - WW1 prisoners of war enjoying themselves<br><br>
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In a potato field ploughing at work at Cheam.<br>14 October 1919 <br><br>
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Bagging potatoes in cold winter snow.<br>1947<br>
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Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849)<br>A caricature depicting 'The Real Potato Blight of Ireland'<br>©TopFoto
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Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849)<br>A notice declaring the reduction of rent to tenants of the Earl of Charlemont due to the failure of the potato crop in 1846.<br>©TopFoto
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Odd heart shaped new potato found in supermarket packaged potatoes
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Home grown, hand picked new potatoes for sale on market square in Varberg, Sweden
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Baby new potatoes in creamy mayonnaise dressing with strips of fresh mint
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Halved, baby new potatoes cooked in their skins, dressed with vinaigrette with whole grain mustard and black pepper, and sprinkled with mint leaves
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Carefully sliced potatoes layered with melted butter cooked in a saute pan lined with thinly sliced bacon, wrapped round on to the top (while it is cooking - bottom when it is served!)
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Roast potatoes with rosemary in green pottery bowl with stacked plates and cutlery behind
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The humble potato rationed in Britain at the basic rate of 3lb per person came into force in Britain yesterday. Due to drought, spring frosts and floods the supply was a fifth less than 1946. Picture shows: The scene at a London market as a housewife buys two weeks ration, with her books in hand.<br>10th November 1947.<br>©TopFoto
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Photo by Ken Russell - Michael Plomer (photographer) and Shirley Russell. The pogo stick as an aid to potato pickers, 1956.<br>©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell
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Mr Lloyd George demonstrating potato growing to farmers on 9th April 1922 - David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC (17 January 1863 - 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who was the first, and only Welsh Prime Minister that Britain has had so far. He was Prime Minister throughout the later half of World War I and the first four years of the subsequent peace.<br>© TopFoto<br>
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NEPAL Namche Bazaar -- Aug 2007 -- While Namche is no hive of activity during the Monsoon months, it still retains its charms and provides better opportunities to get to know the locals than in the main season. Here a Sherpa porter carries some of the potato harvest into the village. Trekking the Everest region in the Monsoon months is becoming increasingly popular for some. While the views are not so spectacular as in the main seasons, the elusive, cloudy landscapes are enchanting. The Monsoon reveals a different side of the Everest region, with bright displays of flowers and less trekkers, allowing for a different trek to the usual one -- Picture by Jon Mitchell / Lightroom Photos
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A woman ridge-ploughing in the potato fields
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Actress Sarah Churchill gives actor John Gayford a dousing with the soda syphon during rehearsals for THE NIGHT LIFE OF A VIRILE POTATO opening at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London. Photo 7th February 1960.<br>©TopFoto
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Potato beetle
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Potato flowers
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Potato starch seen through the lense of a microscope
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Potato vendors in Liege
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The girl Maria Borella photographed after receiving the &quotExcellence award"
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Potato starch enlarged under a microscope
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Portrait of a young peasant woman during the harvesting of potatoes. In the background is a mountain landscape
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03.02.2006, Berlin, DEU, GERMANY - A funny, painted potato. <br><br>
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29.09.2005, Dolna Dubeva, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria - Muslim women during potato harvest. <br><br>
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A potato planter, 1900. A man holding his potato planting invention, an adapted cartwheel with pockets for potatoes which spaced out the plants in the furrow. <br>Credit: Reproduced by permission of English Heritage / HIP / TopFoto
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Irish farmers carrying home their seed potatoes,1888. Wood engraving. <br>Credit: Ann Ronan Picture Library / HIP / TopFoto
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La Carotte et la Pomme de Terre', 1870-1871. Cartoon depicting a scene during the Prussian Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III, the Prussians surrounded Paris on 9 September 1870. The city held out despite famine and great hardship until 28 January 1871. From a series entitled 'Paris Bloque'. From a private collection.
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Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, courtier, adventurer and explorer, (1821). Raleigh (1554-1618) was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585. In 1584-1589 he was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a colony in North America, but did introduce tobacco and the potato to Britain from the New World. Accused of treason by Elizabeth's successor, James I, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to death in 1618. <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP /TopFoto
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'New Potatoes', Middlesex Hospital, London, 1805. A copper plate representing the itinerant traders of London, from &quotModern London; Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis", by Richard Phillips, London, 1805. <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP / TopFoto
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Idaho potato harvest. Loading potatoes onto truck for transport.<br>©David Fraizer / The Image Works
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Irkutsk, Siberia: Private market - selling vegetables. 2410 ©Josef Polleross / The Image Works
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Sprinkler irrigation in an Idaho potato field. ©David Frazier / The Image Works<br><br>
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Potato harvest in Canyon County, Idaho. ©David Frazier / The Image Works
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A french fry sorting machine in a processing plant. ©David R. Frazier / The Image Works<br><br>
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White farm house and potato field on Prince Edward Island, Canada. ©David Frazier / The Image Works
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FRANCE - HERAUILT - FRAISSE-SUR-AGOUIT<br>COUPLE of Peasants plowing their potato field in the traditional way with a team of cows 1975 ©Francis de Richemond / The Image Works
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SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA: HUSBAND, WIFE, AND CHILD SELLING POTATO KEBABS AT A ROADSIDE STAND IN THE MIN RIVER VALLEY ON THE ROAD TO SONGPAN. 2006. ©Lee Snider / The Image Works
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Aerial view of the Simplot potato processing plant in Caldwell, Idaho.<br>©David R. Frazier / The Image Works
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Yale, Michigan - Maple Creek Farm, an organic family farm near Detroit involved in community supported agriculture. Hundreds of subscribers pay a set amount for a share of the year's harvest, thus sharing in the risks and rewards of farming. Farm co-owner Michelle Lutz gathers potatoes. ©Jim West / The Image Works
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Huay Ronndo, Bolivia, potato harvest<br>2007 ©Richard Lord./ The Image Works
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NATIONAL PICTURES<br><br>The Starchy Gallery is a competition in aid of charity to dress or decorate a potato to resemble a celebrity of your choice. Potatoes must form the main vegetable component of the work. Sweet potatoes are acceptable. Entries in bad taste will be disqualified.<br>Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow - by K. Beresford<br><br>See National Copy: nnspuds
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NATIONAL PICTURES<br><br>The Starchy Gallery is a competition in aid of charity to dress or decorate a potato to resemble a celebrity of your choice. Potatoes must form the main vegetable component of the work. Sweet potatoes are acceptable. Entries in bad taste will be disqualified.<br>Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' - by A. Weston <br><br>See National Copy: nnspuds
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NATIONAL PICTURES<br><br>The Starchy Gallery is a competition in aid of charity to dress or decorate a potato to resemble a celebrity of your choice. Potatoes must form the main vegetable component of the work. Sweet potatoes are acceptable. Entries in bad taste will be disqualified.<br>Marilyn Monroe - by A Sharp<br><br><br>See National Copy: nnspuds
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NATIONAL PICTURES<br><br>The Starchy Gallery is a competition in aid of charity to dress or decorate a potato to resemble a celebrity of your choice. Potatoes must form the main vegetable component of the work. Sweet potatoes are acceptable. Entries in bad taste will be disqualified.<br>John McCrirrick by D. Baker & C. Brearly<br><br><br>See National Copy: nnspuds
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NATIONAL PICTURES. ON LEFT, GABRIELLE ROGGENSTEIN BEATS HER OPPONENT LISA DONNER IN MASH POTATO WRESTLING. THE NEW SPORT THAT HAS TAKEN OFF IN THE CITY OF LONDON 9.10.00. PH GRETEL ENSIGNIA
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Consolation for the Million. - The Loaf and the Potato.
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Harvesting potatoes, Pukekohe, New Zealand
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First World War. Bill of the Agriculture Ministry : &quotSow potatoes for the soldiers, for France". 1915.
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Planting of potatoes in May. France, 1925.
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War 1914-1918. German prisoners tearing up (extracting) potatoes in Russia. BRA-101055
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Brittany. Collection of potatoes 1935. RV-70008
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The doctor Sex, fisherman, fixing a potato to his line to fish for the carp. France, 1950. Burnand 4079
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Arrangement of potatoes. Establishments Vilmorin-Andrieux. Reuilly (Eure), 1906. BOY-773
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Day of the potato, grading of vegetables. Lamotte-Beuvron (Loir-et-Cher). HRL-510152
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Artificial insemination of a potato flower. France, 1932. BOY-23005
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Market in Rognonas ( Bouches-du-Rhône's ) potatoes. 1929. BOY-18660
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Potato peel being exchanged for firewood - around 1917
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1918<br>Municipal potato sale at Alexanderplatz
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Kartoffelkaefer<br>- 11.08.2007<br><english> potato beetle, 11.08.2007 </english>
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Deutschland - Hessen - Borken: Schueler helfen bei der Kartoffelernte - 23.09.2007 <br><br> <english> Germany - Hesse - Borken: pupils helping with the potato harvest - 23.09.2007 </english>
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Vincent van Gogh [Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890] - The Potato Eaters <br><br>©TopFoto / Woodmansterne
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Irish Potato Famine: Government potato store being attacked by starving inhabitants of Galway. From 'The Illustrated London News', June 1842. Wood engraving
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Distress in Ireland. Collecting limpets and seaweed for food in the west of Ireland after failure of the potato crop. From 'The Illustrated London News', 1886.
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Potato Famine: Irish peasant family unable to pay rent because of failure of potato crop due to blight, finding shelter in a hedgerow the day after eviction from their cottage. From 'The Illustrated London News', December 1848. Wood engraving.
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Potato Famine: Irish peasant family unable to pay rent because of failure of potato crop due to blight, evicted from their tumbledown cottage. From 'The Illustrated London News' December 1848. Wood engraving
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Potato Famine: Irish peasant girl guarding the family's last few possessions after eviction for non-payment of rent. From 'The Illustrated London News', April 1886 Wood engraving
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The Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Native to South America, introduced into Europe 16th century, major food crop by end of 17th century. Woodcut showing Foliage, Flowers, Fruit and underground Tubers. From John Parkinson 'Theatrum Botanicum' London 1640.
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Rint' v. Potatoes - The Irish Jeremy Diddler. Daniel O'Connell, (1775-1847) Irish political leader, continued to collect repeal rents to fund Home Rule movement while Irish poor were starving. Cartoon from 'Punch', 15 November 1845. Wood engraving
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Potato blight. Plate showing diseases of the potato. In centre is Potato Blight (Phytophtera infestans) a fungal infection spread by aphids, which destroyed crops in Ireland, causing famine in the 19th century. From a French encyclopaedia of agriculture
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Potato peeler, 1900. Machine for washing, peeling and removing eyes and sprouts from potatoes. 'Les Inventions Illustrees', (Paris, May 1899). Print. Engraving.
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