Chop Collection

Dolly of the Chop House
Wily owner of the chop house in Queen s-head-passage, London, Dollys fame was such that she is remembered in print. Here she pours herself a medicinal drop of something

Ley-Ons Chop Suey Restaurant, Soho
Ley-Ons Chop Suey Restaurant in Soho, London, 1947 Date: 1947

Chopping Firewood
A lady goes out into the snow with her axe to chop wood for the fire

Cartoon, The End of the Rotten Borough -- the Reform Bill of 1832 did away with these so-called rotten boroughs, which were constituencies with a very small electorate

View of The Chop Room fireplace inside the atmospheric Old Cheshire Cheese pub just off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884

The Chop Room inside the Old Cheshire Cheese pub off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884

Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone (1796 - 1883), British banker and politician. Date: 1883

Cartoon, John Bull and William Gladstone - Now, William, if you don t get on a little faster, I shall have to put somebody else on the job

Chinese chop boat. 1842

Emigration - Arrival in Canadian Forest
Emigration - Arrival in the Canadian Forest - no work no eat. 19th century

Woodcutter at work, Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France
Woodcutter at work in the hunting forest at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, near the famous Chateau de Chambord, built for King Francis I in the 16th century. Date: 1922

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

Nurse coming off night duty. Reverse reads Just off first night duty SMAH 1929. Fisher Harvey Marwick [?sp] Williams. Note our night boxes contained 1 potatoe. Chop. Egg

CATERPILLAR IN THE CHOP
Here, waiter! Heres a-eeres a-a-caterpillar in this chop! Yessir. About the time oyear for em just now, sir! Date: late 19th century

WOODCUTTERS CHOP LOGS
Woodcutters chop up trees into logs. Date: circa 1810

COSTUME / NECKTIE 1861
A rather dashing middle-aged Victorian man wearing a necktie, top hat and sporting mutton chop sideburns. Date: 1861

SHEPHERD & DOG IN WINTER SHEPHERD & DOG IN WINTER
A shepherd and his dog feed their flock on a winters day - note the straw cutter used to chop up the straw Date: circa 1860

Jimmy Wild by George Studdy
A rather stupid Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy is distracted from stealing a chop by his reflection in a silver, domed platter cover

Street scene, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: 1936

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub, London
The Chop Room in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub, in Fleet Street, London c. 1920

Geisha
Japanese geisha girl in red kimono & blue sash holding fan and lantern. Her decorative hair style is adorned with chop sticks. Date: circa 1903

Kay Snap - Mr Chop the Butcher. 1930s

Gnomes shop down Christmas tree
Two gnomes chop down a Christmas tree Date: circa 1900

Chinese family eating with chopsticks. 19th century

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

Street in Chinatown, New York City, USA, with shops and restaurants. Date: circa 1940

Men Chop Firewood at Morning Post Embankment Home
Men chop firewood at a home on Londons Embankment sponsored by the Morning Post newspaper during a period of severe unemployment. Date: circa 1920

Chop Room at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, London
Chop Room at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, County of London, England. Date: 1910s

WW2 Christmas card, The Weeks Ration
WW2 Christmas card, showing a butcher in his shop, a reproduction of a painting entitled The Weeks Ration. The verse inside reads: When we queue for our chop in the butchers shop

French scouts on a training course, with woodcraft and cooking going on

Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Dragon Dance, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA
Dragon Dance in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA Date: circa 1940

Winter, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people keeping warm inside with a blazing fire (left), a pigs carcase being cut up outside, wood being chopped

Rural scene near Swithland, Leicestershire
A rural scene near Swithland, Leicestershire, showing men chopping wood by a stream, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

French view of an English Gent in London
Spectacularly stereotypical French view of an English Gent in London, complete with plaid trousers, pith helmet, sinister expression (!) and a background of dark satanic mills!!! Date: 1901

Manipur butchers near Arras, France, WW1
Allied Manipur butchers (from Burma) at work preparing meat near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 20 October 1917

Lithuanian Scouts cooking
A group of Lithuanian Boy Scouts stop during a hike in a coniferous forest to cook some food by chopping down trees and making a small fire. circa 1951

Simpsons in the Strand, with Mr H Shelton
A postcard advertising Simpsons in the Strand, the famous London restaurant, depicting Mr H Shelton who has signed the card. Date: circa 1900s

Wood Vendors, Constantinople
Wood vendors - Constantinople with a view of the port and the Galata Tower in the distance

Costume / Necktie 1861
A rather dashing middle-aged Victorian man wearing a frock coat with velvet collar, necktie, top hat and sporting mutton chop sideburns

Man with Whiskers C1900
A late Victorian gentleman with mutton-chop whiskers

Medea and Pelias
Medea avenges herself against Jasons uncle Pelias by persuading his daughters to chop him up and cook him, in the belief that this would restore his youth

Chinaman with Chopsticks
A Chinese diner using chop sticks

MENs COATS OF 1855
Frock coat with funnel or pagoda sleeves in imitation of the current female fashion shown from the rear & front on. One coat has a naval air with embroidered stand collar

Husband / Wife Anon 19C
He: frock coat with floral buttonhole, wing collar & tie, mutton chop whiskers. She: costume of skirt & jacket bodice with lace lapels, high- necked blouse with a jabot

My Mother & your Mother
My mother and your mother went over the way, said my mother to your mother, Its chop-a-nose day !

Woodworking 18th C
Cabinet makers at work in a workshop, using various tools. One is making a table, another assembles pieces of a cupboard

Mixed Costume 1890S
Two young men (brothers. perhaps) and their wives, one with a child sitting on her lap

Men Chop Wood
Men chopping wood in the workhouse

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