Coffee 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

Advertisement for Patersons Camp Coffee, which is claimed to be the best

St Lucys Day
Saint Lucys day (15 December) The girl chosen to be Lucia carries coffee and cakes to those preparing Christmas gifts and decorations

Interior of tramshed, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
Interior view of a tramshed at Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, showing various trams with advertising material: Jacobs Cream Crackers, Colmans Mustard, Lifebuoy Soap

Coffee plant, Coffea arabica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Kirchner from Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Seapoint Ballroom and Restaurant, Salthill, Galway, Ireland
Seapoint Ballroom and Restaurant, Salthill, Galway, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

New York, New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street where coffee and soft drinks are sold. The coffee machine cost one thousand dollars. Date 1942 Aug.?

Advert for Shelley Vogue China 1931
Shelleys Vogue shape coffee set, usual in yellow and black overlapping block pattern. Advertisement for new catalogue with Shelley china tea, coffee, morning and dinner sets. Date: 1931

Automat Dining Room - Broadway, New York, USA
Automat Dining Room - 1557 Broadway, New York, USA. Horn & Hardart was a food services company of the USA noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia and New York City

Street scene, Carmarthen, Dyfed, South Wales
A street scene in Carmarthen, the county town of Carmarthenshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The grocers shop on the left displays a large coffee pot on the corner of the building

Advert / Camp Coffee 1890S
Camp Coffee is still the best

Turkish Lady on a settee smoking
A Turkish lady reclining quizzically on an Ottoman settee, smoking a narghile pipe, whilst drinking coffee

Exterior - Automat Dining Room, Times Square, New York, USA
The exterior of the Automat Dining Room - Times Square branch, New York, USA. Horn & Hardart was a food services company of the USA noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia

Garraways Coffee-House
The exterior of Garraways coffee house in Change Alley, London, rebuilt after a fire in 1748, one of the first to sell tea in the 17th century

Captain Webb 1875
Captain Matthew WEBB is sustained with hot coffee during his first-ever Channel swim

New Lloyds Coffee House
The New Lloyds Coffee House, Popes Head Alley, London - the recognised meeting-place for marine insurers

Coffee House in London
Mixed company patronise a popular London coffee-shop, near the Olympic theatre, Wych Street, Strand

Listening to Records
A dreamy teenager listening to her new Astrud Gilberto LP on her record player

Algerian Coffee Store - Soho, London. Date: 1973

Lloyds Coffee House, London. 1798

Mols Coffee House, Keetch Gallery, Exeter, Devon
The former Mols Coffee House (1596), transformed into the Fred Keetch Art Gallery, Cathedral Close, Exeter, Devon. circa 1960s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Turkish Coffee Shop Waiter. Date: circa 1910s

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Harem Women
Harem women from Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Mostar - taking coffee
Women taking coffee sat on the cobbles in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina

The new coffee tavern at Bradford
Interior and exterior views of the new coffee tavern in Bradford, inaugurated by W. E Forster, M.P in 1879. The Coffee Tavern movement was a Victorian effort to get people out of pubs

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

Morning Call Coffee Stand, New Orleans, USA
Morning Call Coffee Stand, French Market, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Claimed to be the citys most famous coffee drinking place. Date: circa 1940

Corner Shop, Snack Bar, Foyles Library, Walton, Essex
The Corner Shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, which sold tobacco, confectionery and all things for an enjoyable day on the beach

Coffee House, East End of London
A coffee house near Jubilee Street in the East End of London. Its window contains both English and Hebrew text. There are advertisements for R. Whites Lemonade and Kaola

Cona Coffee Machine
Advertisement for the Cona coffee machine (British made)

Three daytime outfits by Drecoll, Poiret and Jenny
Three women in the latest day wear. On the left, a black scoop neck dress with large red rose to the side, by Drecoll. In the middle, a white, red and black print dress and black coat

Coffee Plant
Coffee plant, showing the berries, which contain the coffee beans

Scene in the International Stores, Crediton, Devon, with two middle-aged women chatting in an aisle. The photograph dates from before decimalisation of the currency -- tins of peaches are priced at

Carrying sacks of Coffee, santos, Brazil
Carrying sacks of Coffee to be put on a ship at Santos, Brazil, South America. The total weight of the sacks is 302 kg!

Cafe Josty Scene 1890
CAFE JOSTY A gentleman pours cream into his coffee, while a couple are engrossed in their conversation. At the next table a man reads a paper Date: 1890

Advert / Elephant Coffee
Elephant Brand French Coffee

Desclieux / Coffee Plant
Captain Gabriel Mathieu Desclieux, a French Navy Officer, uses his water ration to save a single coffee plant which instigated the entire Martinique Coffee Industry

Stemmed plants including coffee, blueberry, papaya, argan, achras, desert date, styrax, olive, rhododendron, kalmia, gardenia, etc

Advert for Wm. Corns & Son, combination Coffee Mill 1888
Combination mill for coffee and spices. Date: 1888

LYONS NIPPIE CLEARING
A Lyons Nippie clearing tables at a Lyons Corner House. Date: early 1930s

Barnardos Edinburgh Castle Mission Hall and Coffee Palace
Edinburgh Castle at Limehouse, East London, was a former gin palace and music hall, re-opened by Thomas Barnardo as a British Workmans Coffee Palace with a Mission Hall at its rear. Date: circa 1906

Thessaloniki - Turkish Coffee seller having a quick cigarette break before taking his coffee tray to his next customer. Date: circa 1916

An assortment of coffee roasters and mills

In a London Coffee House
Socialising in a London coffee house

Advert / Cafexqui Coffee
Cafexqui Coffee - concentrated aroma, the best of coffees

Covent Garden Coffee
Early morning in a coffeehouse near Covent Garden

Drinking outside a cafe
Drinking outside in a French cafe

Garraways Coffee House, Change Alley, Cornhill, London
Garraways Coffee House, Change Alley, Cornhill, City of London. 18th century

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