Austerity Collection

Broadway, New York, 1945
Photograph showing the lights of Broadway, New York, at night in 1945. After war-time austerity, these lights signalled an up-swing in American recreation

Santa in Dewars White Label advert
Father Christmas receives a wish list asking for more variety in our food, more houses, more clothes, and less austerity and officialdom in this Dewars White Label scotch whisky advertisement

Monastery of Santes Creus. Dormitory
Monastery of Santes Creus built between 12th and 13th centuries. Dormitory for the monks. Aiguamurcia. Catalonia. Spain

Humber Pullman 1952
The Humber Pullman 8-seater limousine. The advertising copy stresses the modest price, reflecting the austerity period of the early 50s. Date: 1952

Cartoon, Replacing the maid, WW1
Cartoon, Replacing the maid. A middle class couple are forced to do the household chores themselves during a period of wartime austerity

WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threds
WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threads. Lovely card by Evelyn E Morris, relating to the need for austerity during wartime and hence a lack of available cloth for new clothes or repairs

Greek Anti-Plutocrat Propaganda Postcard
An anti Plutocrat Greek postcard from the Second World War, praising the austere simple pride in the life of a Greek soldier against the extravagant largesse of the Plutocrat

An ideal walking holiday in Kent, with Cooks
Cover illustration for an ideal walking holiday in Kent, a quite different holiday, walking and weaving, with Cooks, showing a young couple walking arm in arm, with the Stair House Hotel

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