Catering Collection (#11)

Waitress and customer on comic postcard -- I ve clicked! Date: circa 1910s

Tourist and food in Egypt
A tourist in Egypt rejects a plate of food brought to him by a waiter, as the smell is too offputting for his delicate nose. Date: early 20th century

Hot Dog Wagon - Greenfield Village - Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1920s

Group photo, Yatesbury Camp, near Calne, Wiltshire, WW1
Group photo, Officers Mess Staff at No. 1 Camp, Yatesbury, near Calne, Wiltshire, during the First World War. Date: 1918

Tea in the Treetops, Empire Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland
Tea in the Treetops Restaurant, Empire Exhibition, at the base of Taits Tower, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1938

Nicks in Greenwich Village, New York, USA
Nicks in Greenwich Village, 7th Avenue and West 10th Street, New York, USA -- the home of Dixieland Jazz and sizzling steaks since 1922. Date: circa 1940

It?s a skilled trade join the / Regular Army
It?s a/ skilled/ trade/ join the/ Regular Army.Colour photolithograph recruiting poster published by Her Majesty?s Stationery Office, 1960 (c).Printed by G.C.M

Belgian askaris preparing a meal, Lindi area, WW1
Belgian askaris preparing a meal, Lindi area, East Africa, during WW1. 1917

Soho, London - Chinese restaurant and takeaway, photographed at night. 1973

Soho, London - Frith Street W1
Soho, London - 23A Frith Street W1, with a rag and bone mans horse and cart. 1973

Atlantic Restaurant and Tower, Empire Exhibition, Scotland
Atlantic Restaurant and Tower, Empire Exhibition, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1938

Victorian Scrap -- Cook. late 19th century

Bills Gay Nineties cardboard moustache, New York, USA
Bills Gay Nineties, 57 East 54th Street, New York, USA -- a retro-style cafe and bar looking back to the good old 1890s. A black, cardboard moustache with the cafes details on the back

Hotel Bill - Catering for All Types. circa late 18th century

Field kitchen, Bura Camp, Kenya, WW1
Field kitchen with cooking facilities at Bura Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1916

Cooking facilities, Bura Camp, Kenya, WW1
Cooking facilities at Bura Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1916

WW2 poster, British Rail catering information, with a cartoon by Fougasse. Food was rationed for British Rail, as for everyone else, and Refreshment Baskets were discontinued. circa 1940s

Leaflet, Imperial Airways, Facts About Air Travel. 20th century

Motorway service station, Burger King, with people eating, queueing and serving. Date: circa 1980

Canadian Pacific Steamers, promenade deck
Canadian Pacific Steamers have spacious promenade decks -- children on a Third Class promenade deck, with a specimen Third Class menu printed at the side. Date: circa 1930s

Canadian Pacific Third Class Dining Room
Canadian Pacific Ocean and Rail Services ensure through connections -- a Third Class Dining Room. Date: circa 1930s

Refectory at Trinity College, Cambridge University
View of the top table in the refectory at Trinity College, Cambridge University, with professors coming and going. A large portrait of Henry VIII looms over them. Date: 1967

Cartoon, Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall (Old Vic)
Cartoon, the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall. In 1879 the Coffee Palace Association took over the Victoria Theatre (now the Old Vic), and turned the theatre into a temperance music hall. 1880

Pridonia, Blackpool
The PRIDONIA PRIVATE HOTEL, BLACKPOOL, Lancashire - typical of hundreds of small hotels catering to seaside visitors. Date: 1931

Grill Room Foyer, Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch, London W1
Grill Room Foyer in art deco style, Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch, London W1. Date: circa 1930s

Coffee Shop Club, Blue Bird streamliner train, USA
Passengers relaxing in a carriage of the Coffee Shop Club on the new Wabash Blue Bird streamliner train, operating between St Louis and Chicago, USA. Date: 1950

National Restaurant, New Bridge Street, London EC4, WW1
National Restaurant, New Bridge Street, London EC4, July 1918 -- part of the National Kitchens government-sponsored scheme set up during the First World War food shortage to provide cooked meals for

Business card, J Lyons & Co Ltd, Mr O Engelsen
Business card, J Lyons & Co Ltd, Private Catering Department, Mr O Engelsen, Trocadero, London W1, telephone Gerrard 1301. Date: early 20th century

Russian soldiers at mess, Eastern Front, WW1
Russian soldiers at mess on the Eastern Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Kitchen, Grand Hotel, 41 Rue St Jacques, Bruges, Belgium
Kitchen of the Grand Hotel, 41 Rue St Jacques, Bruges, Belgium. Date: circa 1910

Man serving in fish and chip shop, Cornwall
Man serving in a fish and chip shop, Cornwall. circa 1970s

Fife & Drum Bar, Plattsburg, New York State, USA
Interior of the Fife & Drum Bar and Restaurant in the Witherill Hotel, Plattsburg, New York State, USA. circa 1940

Robins on a New Year card, preparing for a tea party. Date: circa 1890s

Food and staff, Plume of Feathers, Cornwall
Staff with a fine display of food at the Plume of Feathers bar, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Gage & Tollners, New York City, USA
Gage & Tollner s, Oyster and Chop House, Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. A reminder of crinoline days -- looks now just as it did then. Date: circa 1910s

The Lobster, New York City, USA
The Lobster, Oyster and Chop House, West 45th Street, New York City, USA, with views of the main dining room and the cave. Date: circa 1920s

The Brass Rail restaurant, New York City, USA
The Brass Rail restaurant, 7th Avenue and 49th Street, New York City, USA, showing meat cooking in front of burning coals on an English Roasting Jack. Date: circa 1940

Als Sandwich Shop, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Als Sandwich Shop, 23rd Street, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, specialising in sandwiches, breakfasts and delicatessen. " That popular sandwich shop known from coast to coast"

Old Heidelberg Restaurant, Miami, Florida, USA
Old Heidelberg Restaurant, 151 SE 2nd Street, Miami, Florida, USA, with German style food, drink and atmosphere. Date: 1931

Advert for Turners Restaurant, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico
Advertisement for Turners Restaurant in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, offering American food, particularly chicken dinners. Date: circa 1930s

Cruise ship kitchen, Monte Sarmiento
View inside the kitchen of the cruise ship Monte Sarmiento of the Hamburg South America Line. Date: circa 1930s

Communal Kitchens, WWI by Will Owen
Cartoon by Will Owen, a humorous comment on the rise of the communal kitchen, introduced during the First World War as a way of providing war workers and the poor with nourishing meals

Georges Fleury, hotel manager, Monte Carlo
Georges Fleury (1859-19??), French hotel manager, Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo. Date: 1925

Army Camp Store, WW1
Scene inside a well-stocked Army Camp Store, with prices chalked up above the counter, and five men ready to serve customers. Date: 1914-1918

WW2 Christmas card, Good Cheer -- a sailor, an airman and a soldier queue up for a welcome cup of tea at the NaFI. Date: 1941

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, stocking out
Housekeeping aboard the liner. The huge supply for the Queen Marys stay at port between voyages. To ensure that fresh supplies were always available, triplicate stocks of linen were ordered

Boy scouts cooking in the open air, Mauritius. Date: circa 1940s

Boy scouts at camp, breakfast time, Mauritius

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