Cafes Collection

Horn & Hardart Automat, New York City, USA
Horn & Hardart Automat, 57th Street and 6th Avenue, New York City, USA, one of a large chain of cafes and restaurants serving over half a million people per day. Date: circa 1930

Lebanon - Zahle
The Wadi (the Arabic term traditionally referring to a valley) at Zahle, Lebanon. The Beqaa Valley wine region. Date: circa 1920s

Black and White Milk Bar
A Black and White Milk Bar sporting a monochrome livery and purveying milkshakes and ice creams in various flavours including bootlegger and ovaltine

Paris Cafe Ext. 1928
Customers enjoying themselves reading newpapers and drinking glasses of red wine outside a typical Paris Cafe

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

Abc Cafe London / 1900
The Aerated Bread Company Cafe (ABC) Ludgate Hill, London. The tea rooms opened in the 1860s, serving hot drinks and snacks. The stair sign reads Ladies Coffee Room Downstairs

Formosa Oolong Tea Rooms advertisement, 1916
Advertisement for the Formosa Oolong Tea Rooms - the most charming place in London for luncheons, teas and dinners. Illustration shows a lady having tea with an officer in uniform while a waitress in

Rue des Ouleds-Naדּand Moorish cafes, Biskra
The busy street of Ouleds-Naדּ, Biskra, lined with several Moorish cafes. Date: circa 1910s

Paris, France - Boulevard des Italiens. Date: 1850

Gerardmer, Vosges, France - on the Col de la Schlucht mountain pass in the Vosges Mountains. Date: circa 1907

Riviera Interlude by Clark Fay
A relaxed scene showing smart holidaymakers enjoying a drink at an open air cafe underneath striped parasols somewhere on the Cote d Azur, France during the 1930s. Date: 1935

Clock Cafe and view of beach, Scarborough, Yorkshire
The South Cliff Gardens Cafe (known today as the Clock Cafe), with a view of the beach below, at Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Lady Outside Cafe 1894
Lady sits drinking at a table outside a French cafe Date: 1894

Outside Cafe Tortoni
The fashionable Cafe Tortoni, in the rue Taitbout, where carriages stop for ladies to consume ice cream, while others enjoy theirs on the terrace

Crowded Cafe De LA Paix
The Cafe de la Paix, Paris - Paris is crowded with foreign troops and visitors in the aftermath of the wars end

Baby Grand Cafe, Harlem, New York City, America

Dreamland Cafe 1952
A summers evening in the outdoor cafe at Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate

Drinking outside a cafe
Drinking outside in a French cafe

Flomaries Cafe for dainty teas and light luncheons, East Grinstead High Street, Sussex, with a war memorial on the left. circa 1930s

Zagreb, Croatia - Ulica Ivana Tkalcica (Tkalciceva Street) Date: circa 1900s

Cafes La Potiniere and La Chaumiere, Biarritz
A view of the society rendezvous and cafes La Potiniere and La Chaumiere, Biarritz, 1920s Date: 1920s

Villefranche-sur-Mer, The Quayside - Cote d'Azur, France Date: 1952

Card Players, Piraeus, Greece
A group of card players sat in a cafe in Piraeus, Greece. One of them holds a traditional shisha pipe. Piraeus is a port city in the region of Attica. Date: 1885

Place St Michel, Paris, with cafe and pedestrians. Date: circa 1930s

The Sun Lounge, Plymouth, Devon. Date: circa 1930s

Truckers Leave Diner Date: 1950

THERMAL TEA URN
A classic tea urn, the type used to serve up steaming hot cups of tea in cafes and tea shops in Great Britain. Date: 1940s

2 WOMEN WHISPER IN CAFE
Women in Paris cafe; afraid to make themselves conspicious, propose to look as if they are waiting for someone. Date: 1903

CHAT NOIR BREAKFAST
An Editorial Breakfast at Le Chat Noir. Date: 1889

KARLSBAD CAFE 1904
A busy time in the Alte Wiese cafe, Karlsbad. Date: 1904

CHAT NOIR CONVERSATION
Conversation between man and woman in the restaurant Date: 1894

British visitors in a cafe, Paris
The British in Paris after the defeat of Napoleon: English visitors patronise a French cafe. Date: 1814-1815

Formosa Oolong Tea advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Formosa Oolong Tea Rooms, the perfect place to unwind after a tiring day doing war work, such as these nurses pictured

Two women police officers in a London street
Two women police officers walking along a London street, going past the Talbot Cafe. Date: circa 1920s

Scene in a French bistro. Date: 1960s

Rotonde Cafe Paris C1905
Customers and staff of the A La Rotonde cafe in Boulevard de Courcelles, Paris gather outside for a photograph. Date: circa 1905

Inside the Cafe Marguerite, Oxford Street, London, proprietors Vanoni and Tinelli. Date: circa 1905

Lyons Corner House advertisement, 1916
Advertisement for the opening of the latest branch of J. Lyons & Co, in Oxford Street, London, opposite Bond Street tube station

Le Cafe - Au Printemps by W. S. Hutton
A scene in 1920s Paris showing the smart patrons of a cafe enjoying the spring sunshine at outdoor tables. A waiter can be seen balancing a number of drinks on a tray

Luxurious Cafe 1744
A typically luxurious cafe is the venue for the socialising and gossip of the bourgeousie. Date: 1744

Viennese Cafe Circa 1900
People talking, laughing and drinking in the busy Cafe Rouacher in Vienna

European military men with locals in Port Said, Egypt
European military men sitting and enjoying a drink with local gentlemen and ladies as well as a native boy gathered around them in Prince Farouk Street in Port Said

Musical group in an Arabic cafe in Egypt
Ensemble of male and female Egyptian musicians in western and traditional dress. In the back, men are holding traditional Arabic instruments such as a traditional lute (oud)

Postcard from Egypt
Greeting card from Egypt with drawings of a stereotypical desert city and two photographs of a camel rider in front of a pyramid and a local cafe. Date: circa 1910

WW1 poster, Proclamation
Poster, Proclamation in French from the occupying German army in a French town, concerning work responsibilities, evening curfew and access for German soldiers. Dated Charleroi, 10 September 1914

Fortune of War cafe, WW1
Page of illustrations by Samuel Begg in The Illustrated London News, depicting scenes at a Fortune of War caf頩 n London. The idea for the cafes was thought up by Lieut. J E

Joseph Lyons, co-founder of the company J. Lyons renowned for the Lyons Corner House tea rooms, which, according to the caption in the Tatler were feeding 500, 000 people every day

In a French Cafe 1905
A woman converses with a waiter in a cafe. Date: 1905

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