Commodities Collection

Thames Barge
Thames barge, used for carrying hay and other commodities

Strong Cheese repels diner and waiter
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Cheese: " Supply much stronger, but very little demand." This commodities phrasiology is illustrated by a waiter struggling to cope

BEACHED WHALES
Whaling in Norway. Dead whales are lined along the beaches. Whale meat, fat and other parts are sent to market and used for a great number of commodities, including perfume Date: 1930s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Happy Birthday
The ration book is clearly drawn, and cancelled coupons can be glimpsed. Petrol was the first to be rationed after the war began and eventually practically all commodities were

Salt Beds, Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Koforidua Station, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa, showing people during the cocoa season, at this major centre for the production and shipping of cocoa. Date: circa 1924

USA - The New York Cotton Exchange - Cotton Exchange. New York. The New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE) was a commodities exchange founded in 1870 by a group of one hundred cotton brokers

WW1 poster, Sugar means Ships
Poster, Sugar means Ships, The Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Drinks Must Be Reduced. US Food Administration. circa 1918

Food panic at the outbreak of World War One
Illustration depicting the sad fate of a family stricken with war panic which was so prominent during the first week of the war

Algerian Scenery
The gates of the desert - water flows in seeming abundance, but beyond is the Sahara where water is the rarest of commodities

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