Sugarcane Collection

The Gulf Stream, 1899, (1943). Creator: Winslow Homer
The Gulf Stream, 1899, (1943). A man drifts on his fishing boat which has lost its mast. Sharks surround the boat, and a waterspout approaches ominously

Sugarcane plants in Mauritius, Africa

Saccharum officinarum, sugarcane
Illustration of a Saccharum officinarum, sugarcane

Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane
An iconographic image of a sugar cane plant, set enlarged within a landscape. Plate from the Botany Library Plate Collection held in the Natural History Museum, London

Vacuum Pans (b/w photo)
8674252 Vacuum Pans (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vacuum Pans. Illustration for The World's Commercial Products by W G Freeman)

Food and Beverage. Sugar cane mill in India. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France
3434732 Food and Beverage. Sugar cane mill in India. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France, c.1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Moulin a cannes a sucre en usage en Inde)

Beaten in the sugar canes to bring out a boar. Engraving by Samuel Howett (1756-1822)
XEE4124003 Beaten in the sugar canes to bring out a boar. Engraving by Samuel Howett (1756-1822) in " Oriental field sports" by Thomas Williamson

Central America: The sugar-cane (engraving)
8636874 Central America: The sugar-cane (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The sugar-cane)

Cane sugar, Saccharum officinarum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr
FLO4563334 Cane sugar, Saccharum officinarum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Clarifiers (b/w photo)
8674260 Clarifiers (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Clarifiers. Illustration for The World's Commercial Products by W G Freeman)

Sugar tongs, with opposite blades and spring hinges, used to crush sugar canes, c.1800 (steel)
MMM5473256 Sugar tongs, with opposite blades and spring hinges, used to crush sugar canes, c.1800 (steel); National Maritime Museum, London, UK; (add.info.: Sugar tongs)

Hunting a bear from sugar canes. Engraving by Samuel Howett (1756-1822) in " Oriental field sports" by Thomas
XEE4124074 Hunting a bear from sugar canes. Engraving by Samuel Howett (1756-1822) in " Oriental field sports" by Thomas Williamson (on hunts in the British Indies in the 19th century)

Egypt: Cook cruise, Upper Egypt, tourists walk in line in a palm grove covered with cut sugar canes, 1900
LUX4777776 Egypt: Cook cruise, Upper Egypt, tourists walk in line in a palm grove covered with cut sugar canes, 1900; (add.info.: Egypt: Cook cruise, Upper Egypt)

Sugar Cane (colour litho)
3117036 Sugar Cane (colour litho); (add.info.: Saccharum officinarum Kohler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erlauterndem Texte)

Human invention anticipated: Barometer (engraving)
8657914 Human invention anticipated: Barometer (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Barometer)

Letter Z (Zanzibar). Sugar cane cultivation in Tanzania. Alphabet of small geographers
DUV4202044 Letter Z (Zanzibar). Sugar cane cultivation in Tanzania. Alphabet of small geographers. Children's bookshop illustrated. Guerin-Muller et Cie Editeurs, A

Agriculture. Sugar making. Sugar cane mill. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France
3434737 Agriculture. Sugar making. Sugar cane mill. Engraving in: Grands hommes et grands faits de l'industrie, France, c.1880 (engraving); (add.info.: Agriculture. Production du sucre. Coll)

Agriculture: Sugar cane plant Colour engraving of the 19th century
NWI4825283 Agriculture: Sugar cane plant Colour engraving of the 19th century; (add.info.: Agriculture: Sugar cane plant Colour engraving of the 19th century); Photo © North Wind Pictures

The International Exhibition: the Brazilian Court... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: the Brazilian Court - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862. The collection comprised diamonds, emeralds, topazes, amethysts, jasper

The Prince giving sugar-cane to the elephants at the rehearsal of the Perahara, Kandy... 1876. Creator: Unknown
The Prince giving sugar-cane to the elephants at the rehearsal of the Perahara, Kandy, Ceylon, from a sketch by one of our special artists, 1876. The future King Edward VII on a royal visit to India

The Revolution in Sicily - Garibaldi cutting down the captain of the Neapolitan cavalry... 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Revolution in Sicily - Garibaldi cutting down the captain of the Neapolitan cavalry in the charge made by the latter near the bridge of Melazzo - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860

Gathering cane on a Cuban sugar plantation, between 1900 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
Gathering cane on a Cuban sugar plantation, between 1900 and 1906

Weighing sugar cane before unloading at the mill, c1904. Creator: Unknown
Weighing sugar cane before unloading at the mill, c1904

Groups about the sugar mill, Temasopa [sic], between 1880 and 1897. Creator: William H. Jackson
Groups about the sugar mill, Temasopa [sic], between 1880 and 1897

Cutting sugar cane, Baton Rouge, La. between 1900 and 1920. Creator: Unknown
Cutting sugar cane, Baton Rouge, La. between 1900 and 1920

First Sale of Sugar in the Market Square of D'Urban, Port Natal, 1856. Creator: Unknown
First Sale of Sugar in the Market Square of D'Urban, Port Natal, 1856. Durban, South Africa: The waggons contain the sugar in bags; and one of the proprietors, Mr. H. Milner, J.P

Grinding sugar-cane at the school's sugar-hill, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Grinding sugar-cane at the school's sugar-hill, 1904

Puerto Rico. Int. of New And Old Sugar Mills, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Puerto Rico. Int
Puerto Rico. Int. of New And Old Sugar Mills, 1912

Brazilian Sugar-Mill, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Brazilian Sugar-Mill, 1854. View of...the interior of the Mill-house on a Brazilian Sugar Estate during the time of grinding, with a Mill of an improved construction

Hoeing sugarcane on plantation in Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hoeing sugarcane on plantation in Louisiana

Cabins for sugarcane workers, Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins for sugarcane workers. Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana

Cabins for sugarcane workers, Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins for sugarcane workers. Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana

Cabins in the sugarcane country, Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cabins in the sugarcane country. Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana

The International Exhibition: sugar-refining apparatus of Messrs. Caile and Co. of Paris, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: sugar-refining apparatus of Messrs. Caile and Co. of Paris, 1862. European machine processing sugar cane from the colonies

The International Exhibition: Great Sugar-Mill, by Mirrlees and Tait, of Glasgow, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Great Sugar-Mill, by Mirrlees and Tait, of Glasgow, 1862. The use of this mill is to express the juice from the cane...an endless travelling-table...carries the canes up

Black sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) cultivated for sucrose in the stem, obtained by crushing. China

Cruz Bay; Cinnamon Bay, Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands), 1851 (oil on canvas)
7443713 Cruz Bay; Cinnamon Bay, Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands), 1851 (oil on canvas) by Melbye, Fritz Siegfried Georg (1826-69); 40.6 x 55.9 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Sugarcane at market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Sugarcane Sellers, Cairo, Egypt Date: 1898

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Harvesting sugar cane in Cuba, c. 1910 (b/w photo)
2962915 Harvesting sugar cane in Cuba, c.1910 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

Women with provisions in a canal boat, c. 1910 (b/w photo)
2962917 Women with provisions in a canal boat, c.1910 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

Loading sugar cane onto a cart in Cuba, c. 1910 (b/w photo)
2962916 Loading sugar cane onto a cart in Cuba, c.1910 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection

Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, Canne a sucre
5324521 Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, Canne a sucre by Maubert, Louis Joseph Edouard (1806-1879); (add.info.: Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, Canne a sucre)

Crane at a "central"sugar cane gathering place, San Sebastian vicinity, Puerto Rico, 1942
Crane at a " central" sugar cane gathering place, San Sebastian vicinity, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane workers, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

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"Sugarcane: A Sweet Journey Through Time and Continents" From the brushstrokes of Winslow Homer's masterpiece, "The Gulf Stream" in 1899 to the lens capturing sugarcane plants in Mauritius, Africa, this versatile crop has left its mark on history. Saccharum officinarum, commonly known as sugarcane, has been a source of sweetness and economic prosperity for centuries. Intriguingly depicted in an English line engraving from 1796 by J. G. Stedman, we witness sugar cane's four different stages - from sprouting shoots to mature stalks ready for harvest. This visual narrative takes us back to a time when the cultivation of this precious plant was essential for trade and survival. Across continents and cultures, it has played a vital role. In Cairo, Egypt, sellers proudly display their bountiful harvest while Cuban fields come alive with workers meticulously harvesting each stalk around 1910. Women navigate canal boats laden with provisions – perhaps destined for the transformation into sweet delights or fueling local economies. As we delve deeper into the world cultivation, we discover black sugar cane varieties cultivated specifically for sucrose extraction through crushing techniques. These resilient strains have become synonymous with sweetness itself – their vibrant green hues hiding treasures within their fibrous stems. Through these glimpses into history and diverse landscapes worldwide – from America to Africa and beyond – it becomes clear that sugarcane is not just a mere crop; it is an emblem of human ingenuity and resilience. From ancient civilizations harnessing its potential to modern-day industries refining its essence into myriad forms like crystalline sugar or molasses - Sugarcane continues to captivate our senses while leaving an indelible mark on our taste buds.