Commodity Collection

Market Reports - English Country Squire carves the beef
Market Reports illustrated (Postcard series): MEAT: " English beef was in fine condition." This report on English beef (as a commodity traded on the Stock Exchange)

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

Preparing Caoutchouc, a natural rubber produced in Amazon region. From the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, rubber was desirable commodity, valued at a high price

British army in India - NC officers 77th Regiment, 1860s
Vintage 19th century photograph - British army in India - NC officers of the 77th Regiment, 1860s

End of WW II - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
End of World War II - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill crossing the River Rhine - also in the boat field Marshall Mongomery and General Simpson

Officers of a native Indian regiment, British army, India
officers of a native Indian regiment, British army, India, photographed by Shepherd and Robertson. Vintage 19th century photograph

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, stirring the sugar cream. 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, rolling chocolate. 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, roasting the cocoa. 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, putting cocoa into packets
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, women putting cocoa into packets. 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, packing chocolate
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, women packing chocolate. 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, mixing pans. 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, hydraulic presses for extracting cocoa butter. 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, grinding chocolate. 1893

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Sri Lanka
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Ceylon Sri Lanka. 1893

Phoenicians trading with Early Britons, exchanging richly coloured cloths for animal skins and furs. Date: BCE

Pan floor, Hershey Sugar Refinery, Central Hershey, Cuba. Date: circa 1920

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

Draining off camphor oil, Formosa (Taiwan)
The islands main industry, draining off camphor oil, Formosa (now Taiwan), which was at this time a Japanese province. After the camphor has crystallised

Men of Zanzibar holding large tusks, Tanzania, East Africa
Two men of Zanzibar holding a pair of large ivory tusks, Tanzania (then part of the British Empire), East Africa. Date: 1922

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

Workers in the sugar fields, Fiji, South Pacific. Date: circa 1900s

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

Port of Riga. Artist unknown. Second half of the 17th cent. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Highbury Home for Friendless Children, Pound Day
Highbury Home for Friendless Children, North London. Leaflet advertising a Pound Day where local supporters of the home were requested to make a gift of either one pound in cash

Weighing tea, Japan
People weighing tea in baskets, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Man and boy sifting tea, China. Date: circa 1890

The Netherlands - Schiedam - The Commodity Exchange Date: circa 1900

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Beurs van Berlage on the Damrak. Designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage (constructed between 1896 and 1903)

Landing opium from the Pekin at Hong Kong
Men landing opium at Hong Kong from the Pekin Date: 1857

Filling, weighing and packing tea, Bankside, London
Workers filling, weighing and packing chests of tea at Messrs Travers Wharf, Bankside, London. Date: circa 1902

Tea merchants cutting and mixing machine, London
Workers with a tea merchants cutting and mixing machine at Messrs Travers Wharf, Bankside, London

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