Beef Collection

Beef Cuts Diagram 1855
A diagram showing beef joints

Poster, The Vegetabull, a vegetable dish made with dried eggs or household milk is as good as a joint (post-WW2 rationing was still going on at this time). 1947

The Gate of Calais. Etching by William Hogarth (1697-1764)
William Hogarth (1697-1764). British artist, engraver, illustrator and satirical painter. The Gate of Calais. Etching by Hogarth. Engraving. The Iberian Illustration, 1888. Colored

Butchers Shop, High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex
W Snelling Butchers Shop, 11 High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. circa 1900

Quayside at Castletownbere, Co. Cork, Ireland
The Quayside at Castletownbere - a small town in County Cork in Ireland. Located on the southwest coast of Ireland, in West Cork, by Berehaven harbour near the entrance to Bantry Bay

Scene in a stock Yard - Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Aggregate value of livestock handled annually (at the time this card was published) was $200, 000, 000.00 ! Date: circa 1920s

Market Reports - English Country Squire carves the beef
Market Reports illustrated (Postcard series): MEAT: " English beef was in fine condition." This report on English beef (as a commodity traded on the Stock Exchange)

Sunday Roast
A mouth-watering Sunday roast meal - a joint of roast beef, served with roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding

Art / Hogarth / Roast Beef
THE GATE OF CALAIS, OR, O THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND a satire on the well-fed English versus the poorly- fed French

In a Butchers Shop
THE MAN OF TASTE - a butchers customer orders two ounces of Boiled Beef, Cut with a Ham y Knife to give it a Relish

The Butchers Shop. A young girl in red dress and bonnet looks at the variety of cuts of meat available at the Butchers Shop

Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef; I went to Taffys house

Advertisement for Bovril - nurses must use Bovril in place of beef tea as it is infinitely more nourishing. Date: late 19th century

View of the hill station of Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, India, with St Anthonys Church in the middle distance, and beef and mutton stalls on the left. Date: circa 1910s

Soho, London - 42 Great Windmill Street W1 - Nosh Bar delicatessen and hot salt beef bar, photographed at night. 1973

Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900s
Various machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900

King James I knights a tasty loin of beef - Arise Sir Loin
King James I knights a tasty loin of beef at Hoghton Tower, near Preston, Lancashire, in 1617. Historians are somewhat unsurpringly divided as to the likelihood and validity of this tale

Gallaghers Steak House, New York City, USA
View of the Bar in Gallaghers Steak House, West 52nd Street, New York City, USA. Famous for steaks broiled over hickory logs, private dining room available for beefsteak parties. Date: circa 1930s

Ox roasting at Stratford-upon-Avon Mop Fair
Scene showing an ox being roasted at the Stratford upon Avon annual Mop Fair, Warwickshire. Farm workers, labourers, servants and some craftsmen would work for their employer from October to October

Prizewinning bull at the Smithfield Show
One of King Edward VIIs prizewinners at the Smithfield Show in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, North London

Chicago Stockyards 1
Butchers in the Chicago stockyards at work on beef carcases, exposed by Upton Sinclair in his 1905 novel The Jungle

VICTORIAs JUBILEE 1887
Victoria depicted with her loyal lion - the workman with his clay pipe and side of beef - and her unicorn - the upper class with its cigars and champagne

Advert / Liebig Beef Card
Liebigs Extract of Beef: the finest meat flavouring stock

Racing Illustrated - Putting on the Stakes A jolly French Chef working in a large restaurant kitchen puts an order of beef steaks under the grill. One could say this card was medium rare

Beef Carcasees
Butchers removing intestines from cattle carcasses, part of the Argentinian meat (beef) production process. Date: 1930s

Butcher & Carcasses
A butcher cuts large meat carcasses in half

Various Cuts of Beef
Beef cuts of poor and inferior quality

Funghi / Mushrooms 1869
Seven varieties of mushroom: beef-steak, latticed, boletus, hedgehog, fly agaric, clavaria, birds-nest, and sporangium (magnified)

Advert, Haywards Military Pickle, the great digestive. 1937

Loading beef and ice at Culebra Railway Station in Panama, early 1900s

Loading frozen beef for export, Brisbane, Australia, early 1900s

Loading beef for export, Brisbane, Australia, early 1900s

Aberdeen Angus Cattle

An advert for Oxo Cubes, as extolled by a beaming baby. Date: circa 1932

Dinner Menu, Cunard liner, RMS Mauretania
Dinner Menu, Cunard liner RMS Mauretania, 30 July 1953 - at this time the ship was operating between Southampton and New York. Date: 1953

Roasting of the baron of beef for the Christmastide Festival, held over a weekend in the first week in December each year. Date: 1900

A small group at Smithfield's Market looking at beef cattle. Meat had been traded on the site of Smithfield's for over 800 years, but the present building was opened in 1868

Fireplace in the kitchen in Windsor Castle. Date: 1894

Interior of the Smithfield Club's Annual Show at the Agricultural Hall Islington, London. Photograph showing after the judging was completed and awards won. Date: late 1890s

ABBETOIR CARCASS
A dead animal carcass hanging in an abbetoir. Date: 1930s

bullock cart, two well-dressed women, British India
Vintage 19th century photograph: bullock cart with driver and two well-dressed women, British India, proably Burma, Myanmar, c.1890

Bullocks, oxen, pulling a wooden farmers cart, Italy
19th century vintage photograph - a pair of bullocks, oxen, pulling a wooden farmers cart, Italy, c.1890

Advert for Bovril, 1925 Date: 1925

Farmer and his ox, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Covered ox cart for transporting people, gharry, gharri, In
Covered ox cart for transporting people, gharry, gharri, country travel India. Vintage 19th century photograph

Ox train pulling logs through the jungle, Burma, India
Ox train for pulling logs through the jungle, Burma, India. Vintage 19th century photograph

Trades in Regency England: china painting, pin making
Trades people in Regency England. Artist painting a porcelain vase in a Worcester china factory 7, girl using a foot-driven anvil to add heads to pins in a pin-making factory in Gloucester 8

Trades in Regency Ireland and England: Cork, Dublin and London Docks. Irish beef cattle bring driven to the port of Cork 79

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