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Background imageButcher Collection: PLEADING WOMAN/LOST CAT

PLEADING WOMAN/LOST CAT
A woman pleads with a butcher to tell her where her pet cat might have got to; several dead cats are concealed behind him Animal pets stealing stolen Date: 1870

Background imageButcher Collection: Comic postcard, Customer in butchers shop Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Customer in butchers shop Date: early 20th century

Background imageButcher Collection: Abandoned butchers bike in Deptford bomb crater, London

Abandoned butchers bike in Deptford bomb crater, London
An abandoned butchers bike lies in a crater in the road left by a bomb in Deptford, South-East London, WW2. Date: circa 1940s

Background imageButcher Collection: Comic postcard, Ambiguous instructions to the butcher Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Ambiguous instructions to the butcher Date: 20th century

Background imageButcher Collection: WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Mary and her Little Lamb

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Mary and her Little Lamb
The Caption is Mary and her little lamb. Even though the war is over rationing would continue. The little dog looking on was unlikely to get any of the meat

Background imageButcher Collection: Cleveland House by St. James Palace, London

Cleveland House by St. James Palace, London. Built by Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of King Charles II, later owned by the Duke of Bridgwater

Background imageButcher Collection: Music cover, Oh! Ma-Ma! (The Butcher Boy)

Music cover, Oh! Ma-Ma! (The Butcher Boy), by Rudy Vallee and Paolo Citorello. 1938

Background imageButcher Collection: Butchers receipts, J Jeffery, Silverstone, Northants

Butchers receipts, J Jeffery, Silverstone, Northants
Butchers receipts, J Jeffery of Silverstone, Northamptonshire, dated 1910, 1929 and 1939. 1910-1939

Background imageButcher Collection: Cartoon by Gillray, a poor man goes hungry

Cartoon by Gillray, a poor man goes hungry - wages were low and food prices were high, thanks to foreign wars, corn duty and a bad harvest. 1790s

Background imageButcher Collection: Barber and Butcher Sign

Barber and Butcher Sign in English Date: circa 1900s

Background imageButcher Collection: Enlarging lantern advertisement 1905

Enlarging lantern advertisement 1905
Advertisement from W.Butcher and Sons camera house based in London, England. The advert promotes 3 different enlargers for creating photographic prints. 1905

Background imageButcher Collection: Gorgeous bushshrike, Telophorus viridis

Gorgeous bushshrike, Telophorus viridis (Red-throated butcher bird, Lanius gutturalis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Background imageButcher Collection: Chinese pork butcher selling hams, Qing Dynasty

Chinese pork butcher selling hams, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

Background imageButcher Collection: Olivier V de Clisson, connetable de France, 1336-1407

Olivier V de Clisson, connetable de France, 1336-1407
Olivier V de Clisson, connetable de France, Breton soldier known as le Boucher, the Butcher 1336-1407. He wears a suit of armour with coat of arms of the Clisson family

Background imageButcher Collection: Gauchos butchering cattle at a slaughterhouse

Gauchos butchering cattle at a slaughterhouse
Native American gauchos lassoing and butchering cattle at one of the outdoor slaughterhouses in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch

Background imageButcher Collection: Mays family butchers shop, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Mays family butchers shop, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
T & W Mays Tower Meat Stall, family butchers shop, with James Sutherlands flatbed truck and passengers outside, and Youells Ironmongers on the left, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. circa 1910s

Background imageButcher Collection: General Dyer going to the Lords

General Dyer going to the Lords
Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer with his wife and son going to the House of Lords. General Dyer was held accountable for the Amritsar Massacre at Jallianwallah Bagh in the Punjab region

Background imageButcher Collection: Market Place, New Malden, SW London (Surrey)

Market Place, New Malden, SW London (Surrey), showing the railway station bridge, and various shops, including J C Giblett, Butcher. circa 1905

Background imageButcher Collection: Food queue during a shortage, London, WW1

Food queue during a shortage, London, WW1
Food queue outside a butchers shop in London during a shortage towards the end of the First World War. 1918

Background imageButcher Collection: General Strike, 1926 - Smithfield Market butcher

General Strike, 1926 - Smithfield Market butcher
General Strike, 1926 - a Smithfield Market butcher carrying supplies of meat to his own car. 1926

Background imageButcher Collection: Music cover (back), Happy Families

Music cover (back), Happy Families, music and jingles by John Tobin, cards designed by Myrrha Bantock

Background imageButcher Collection: Butchers delivery man

Butchers delivery man speaking to a female servant at the steps of a house. 19th century

Background imageButcher Collection: Butchers over Christmas period 1868

Butchers over Christmas period 1868
Exhibiting hanging beef for the Christmas. 1868

Background imageButcher Collection: Meat porter working at Les Halles, Paris, France

Meat porter working at Les Halles, Paris, France
Meat porter working at the market, Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Background imageButcher Collection: Scene in the meat market at Les Halles, Paris, France

Scene in the meat market at Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Background imageButcher Collection: Chilean cannibals, 1910

Chilean cannibals, 1910
Chilean bandits butcher and eat Armenian immigrants. Date: 1910

Background imageButcher Collection: The General Election - Intelligent Voters

The General Election - Intelligent Voters
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Intelligent Voters. A mild satire as a bunch of working class rural yokels of Mudford take great interest in the finest small print of a prospective

Background imageButcher Collection: Butcher Row, Temple Bar

Butcher Row, Temple Bar, London

Background imageButcher Collection: INDIAN MEAT MARKET

INDIAN MEAT MARKET
A rather unhygienic meat stall at a market in Lahore, India, showing the butcher weighing the meat for a customer. When he has sold out of meat, he will sleep on the counter! Date: 1930s

Background imageButcher Collection: FRENCH BUTCHER W / A BULL

FRENCH BUTCHER W / A BULL
A French butcher prepares to slaughter a bull while others look on. Date: circa 1760

Background imageButcher Collection: DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERS

DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERS
A butcher, planning to use cat meat as a cheap alternative, tells a distraught cat owner: No madame, I have no idea where your pet cat can have got to! Date: 1870

Background imageButcher Collection: Butchers Boy

Butchers Boy
A butchers boy making a delivery. Date: circa 1870

Background imageButcher Collection: Errand Boy

Errand Boy
London characters: when you go shopping, you dont have to carry your purchases home, the ERRAND BOY does that, like this butchers boy carrying your uncovered Sunday joint. Date: circa 1870

Background imageButcher Collection: 17th century Butcher

17th century Butcher
A shop keeper - butcher or poulterer - brandishes a cleaver as he slices a joint into cutlets or whatever. Date: 17th century

Background imageButcher Collection: BUYING THE GOOSE

BUYING THE GOOSE
A shrewd housewife feels whether the goose is plump enough for the family Christmas dinner Date: 1909

Background imageButcher Collection: Auster J / 2 Arrow - OO-ABV

Auster J / 2 Arrow - OO-ABV
Auster J/2 Arrow - OO-ABV The Flying Butcher Date: 1980s

Background imageButcher Collection: The contents of a halal butchers shop in Houmt Souk, Djerba

The contents of a halal butchers shop in Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia. A beasts head hangs up along with tripe. Sheeps heads and feet lie on a table. Date: 1987

Background imageButcher Collection: A woman buys meat from a mobile shop in Neuville Sur Oise

A woman buys meat from a mobile shop in Neuville Sur Oise, northern France. The van is a Citroen H Van, Type H, H-Type or HY

Background imageButcher Collection: Market trader on mbile phone, Shrewsbury Indoor Market

Market trader on mbile phone, Shrewsbury Indoor Market
A market trader in a butchers apron finds a quiet corner to make a phone call in the Indoor Market Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Date: 2019

Background imageButcher Collection: Butchers in street, Dublin

Butchers in street, Dublin
Two butchers carry lamb carcasses on their shoulders down a market street in Dublin, Ireland Date: 1990

Background imageButcher Collection: Halal butcher, Kashmir

Halal butcher, Kashmir
Halal Muslim butcher cuts pieces of meat in his butchers shop in Srinagar, Kashmir. He squats beside his butchers block, holds a large cleaver and looks directly at the camera Date: 1986

Background imageButcher Collection: Relief depicting a butchering scene. Egypt

Relief depicting a butchering scene. Egypt
Tomb relief depicting a butchering scene. Limestone. Old Kingdom. 5th Dynasty. 2350 BC. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Background imageButcher Collection: Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Butchery

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Butchery
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Butchery. Miniature. Fol. 77r

Background imageButcher Collection: Turkeys galore outside a butcher in High Wycombe

Turkeys galore outside a butcher in High Wycombe
A spectacular display of turkeys hanging outside a butchers shop in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. They are so numerous (and are joined by rabbits and a lone pig)

Background imageButcher Collection: Illustration, Hans in Luck

Illustration, Hans in Luck -- Just then a butcher came along the road trundling a young pig in a wheelbarrow. Date: 1909

Background imageButcher Collection: Butchering an animal at Bacalar, British Honduras

Butchering an animal at Bacalar, British Honduras
Boy scouts watching the butchering of an animal at Bacalar, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America, 24 May 1951. Date: 1951

Background imageButcher Collection: Female Butcher

Female Butcher
A woman butcher gutting an animal carcass. Date: early 1930s

Background imageButcher Collection: Dog Steals Sausages

Dog Steals Sausages
A dog runs off with a string of sausages with the butcher boy in pursuit



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