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  • The punishment of being issued barley instead of wheat. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1725.
  • Bemax : stabilized wheat germ : the richest-known natural vitamin-protein-mineral supplement / Vitamins Limited.
  • Bemax : stabilized wheat germ : the richest-known natural vitamin-protein-mineral supplement / Vitamins Limited.
  • 'Panopepton' : the pure nutritious substance of beef and wheat in perfect solution / Fairchild Bros. & Foster.
  • 'Panopepton' : the pure nutritious substance of beef and wheat in perfect solution / Fairchild Bros. & Foster.
  • Sheep are sheared and wheat is reaped; representing summer. Etching, 17--, after F.G. Bassano the younger.
  • Horlick's Malted Milk : barley, wheat & milk : an efficient corrective of insomnia / [Horlick's Malted Milk Co.].
  • Horlick's Malted Milk : barley, wheat & milk : an efficient corrective of insomnia / [Horlick's Malted Milk Co.].
  • The dissected flowers of five plants: a grass, rye, wheat, vernal grass and chamomile. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Two quails and a duck on the edge of a lake or river with wheat. Process print after Tosa Mitsusada.
  • 'Panopepton' : the pure nutritious substance of beef and wheat in perfect solution / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.
  • Madroen plant (?Arbutus menziesii), unknown plant and wild spanish wheat: fruiting heads. Line engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruins, 1705.
  • The branches of agriculture and husbandry linked by lines showing their progression; (below) workers scythe wheat. Line engraving after Richard Blome (?), 1686.
  • Nymphs in a field among cornucopias; workers scythe wheat; representing horticulture and agriculture. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, c. 1810, after H. Corbould.
  • Astley's prepared wheat : to poison mice, sparrows, and all sorts of small vermin, without danger to animals of a larger growth... / J. Astley.
  • Marshalls' preparations of wheat... : containing all the elements necessary for the sustenance and growth of the human frame / made by James & Thos. Marshall.
  • Marshalls' preparations of wheat... : containing all the elements necessary for the sustenance and growth of the human frame / made by James & Thos. Marshall.
  • Berrydales special diet cookbook : dairy free, egg free, sugar free, wheat & gluten free recipes for everyday dishes plus product information / Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.
  • Berrydales special diet cookbook : dairy free, egg free, sugar free, wheat & gluten free recipes for everyday dishes plus product information / Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.
  • A happy socialist mother, dressed in her workwear, holding her baby, surrounded by productive factories and wheat-fields; advertising International Women's Day, 1951. Colour lithograph after Čermáková, 1951.
  • A boy is shovelling bread into the baker's oven as one picks up sheaves of wheat and another holds up a tray. Engraving by Giovanni Volpato after Francesco Maggiotto.
  • An allegory of agriculture: Ceres reclining amidst a collection of farm implements, she holds a sheaf of wheat and a scythe. Engraving by W. Bromley, 1789, after a sculptural panel by Mrs E. Coade.
  • Bales of wheat in a yellow field with a pair of white socks floating against a yellow sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; German version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
  • Bales of wheat in a yellow field with a pair of white socks floating against a yellow sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; Italian version of a series of Stop AIDS campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the AIUTO AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
  • Three officers in the City of London Corporation holding different types of sticks ("characteresticks"): Lord Mayor Crosby with a scourge for wheat-speculators; John Wilkes with a Herculean club for defeating corruption; and and a bull representing Frederick Bull, with the sheriff's staff of office. Engraving after S.L., 1772.
  • Bales of wheat in a yellow field with a pair of white socks floating against a yellow sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • Nepal; agriculture in the Khumbu, 1986. Pangboche (altitude 4200 metres), showing the tiny, walled terraced fields on which Sherpas cultivate their staple crops (potatoes, barley, wheat). Potatoes are rarely grown beyond 4000 metres but barley is grown at higher altitudes. Scattered juniper and birch trees share this terrain with sub-alpine grasses. Few people live permanently beyond this village amid the last scattered trees below the treeline.
  • An account of some new microscopical discoveries founded on an examination of the calamary and its ... milt-vessels ... Also, observations on the farina faecundans of plants ... And an examination o the pistil, uterus and stamina of several flowers ... Likewise observations on the supposed embryo sole-fish fixed to the bodies of shrimps ... A description of the eels or worms in blighted wheat, etc / [John Turberville Needham].
  • Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Farmland on the lower slopes of the Himalayas (altitude 2900 metres). In the late 1980s, food grains contributed 76% of total crop production but production of milk, meat and fruit had not reached a point where nutritionally balanced food was available to most people. Staples (potatoes, barley, wheat) were occasionally augmented by green vegetables in the monsoon season (June-October), yak cheese and milk which was not consumed in large quantities, and fruit which was rare and expensive.
  • "Cerovim" wheatmeal : prepared by special process from selected wheats by Joseph Rank Ltd., Britain's greatest millers.