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Potatoes

Images

  • Eight plants, including an orchid, a magnolia and a cactus: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Marmite spéciale pour cuire et servir les pommes de terre : demander la notice : articles de cuisine, poteries, porcelaine / E. Delesport.
  • Potato recipes that will "hit the spot" / Martha Holmes.
  • Marmite spéciale pour cuire et servir les pommes de terre : demander la notice : articles de cuisine, poteries, porcelaine / E. Delesport.
  • Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.
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Catalogue

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    Potato blight.

    | Date: [1951]
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    Cemeteries : as receptacles for the dead, and principally as places for health, recreation, meditation, and pleasure, and as substitutes for parks ; Wills or testaments : with the proper distribution of these to females, who are frequently left too little, and are less cared for than sons ; Potatoes : as an article of food, and in a political point of view, their cultivation, growth, and improvement, and the causes of disease, and means of preventing it / by John Moodie.

    Moodie, John. | Date: 1848
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    On the potato disease / by F.J. Graham.

    Graham, Francis James. | Date: [1846]
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    Diseased potatoes ... / Andrew Ure.

    Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857. | Date: 1845
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Notes and extracts on books

    | Date: c.1800-1823 | Reference: MS.1164
    Part of: Bidault de Villiers, F. T. (1775-1824)
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