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Photograph of men harvesting wheat and hay in the [?] Valley in 1897. The note on the slide also says that all of the wheat and hay was cut with a binder. The image shows a man standing on a horse drawn wagon while another lifts hay up with a pitchfork and two other men add hay to the stack in the background.

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Men in a field loading hay onto a wagon pulled by a horse in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of men supervising and harvesting wheat in a field in Egypt in the early 20th century.

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Note entitled 'Maighdean Bhuana' [the name given to the last handful of corn cut] that it would be dressed up and a piece would be given to the horses on the first day of ploughing. Notes the 'greim cu'aig' [greim cubhaige, a piece of food taken so that the cuckoo would not be heard on an empty stomach] which was eaten before going out in the morning. Also notes another ritual involving sickles.

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Note probably collected from Christina Campbell née Macintyre, Lios Mòr/Lismore Earra, Ghàidheal/Argyllshire that eight bolls of barley were harvested from forty stooks at Tirphuir [Tirefour, Lios Mòr/Lismore].

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Note on superstitions relating to harvesting and fishing including that a man would take off his bonnet on seeing the new [harvest], that an east coast man who sees a salmon coming up with the net shakes his head and that in Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] the harvest is cut on a Friday, with the first corn sown being consecrated with holy water.

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Notes about the Saturday moon 'gealach Sathurn' that madness will start within seven days of it, it happens once every seven years and if harvest is begun on a Saturday moon, it will last seven Saturdays.

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Photograph of a man picking lemons off a tree while another man crouches on the ground holding open a sack and a woman stands on the other side. The image shows a long row of lemon trees in an orchard in Malsetter, South Africa in the early/mid 20th century.

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Photograph of men and women harvesting tobacco in a field surrounded by orchards in [Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada] in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents Stories probably collected from Angus Currie, Àird na Monadh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, relating to the harvest tradition of the 'cailleach', the last sheaf of corn to be cut from the field. The cailleach was sent by someone who had finished cutting his corn to a neighbour who had not finished cutting theirs and was considered to be a great disgrace. One story tells of a man who went on horseback from Bornish to Milton with the cailleach and the recipient was so cross he chased him, caught...