Photography — 1952
Mobile hop picker
Hops are a climbing plant and are trained to grow up strings or wires. Pickers would work in the fields from 7am until 5pm with only one official stop for lunch. Each family was paid according to how many hops had been picked. Harvesting machines were introduced to farms in the early 1930s however hand picking remained commonplace until the 1960s.
- Category:
- Photography
- Object ID:
- HG1394/10
- Object name:
- Mobile hop picker
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Grant, Henry
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- Production date:
- 1952
- Material:
cellulose acetate
- Measurements/duration:
- 6x6
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
Purchased with V&A Purchase Grant Fund support.
- Copyright holder:
London Museum
- Image credit:
© Henry Grant Collection/London Museum
- Creative commons usage:
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- License this image:
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