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Cooking Collection (page 4)

Background imageCooking Collection: Street food stall, Istanbul Turkey

Street food stall, Istanbul Turkey
19th century vintage photograph: Street food stall, Istanbul Turkey

Background imageCooking Collection: Bheel or Bhil women grinding corn, India

Bheel or Bhil women grinding corn, India
19th century vintage photograph: Bheel or Bhil women grinding corn, India

Background imageCooking Collection: Bheel of Bhil women carrying water Kathiawar, India

Bheel of Bhil women carrying water Kathiawar, India
19th century vintage photograph: Bheel of Bhil women carrying water Kathiawar, India

Background imageCooking Collection: Its in the cooking, 1943

Its in the cooking, 1943. Wartime cooking and recipes. Home front in Britain. Date: 1943

Background imageCooking Collection: Advert, Wesson Oil for cooking and salads

Advert, Wesson Oil for cooking and salads. 1926

Background imageCooking Collection: Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Gas Cooker

Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Gas Cooker
Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Regulo-Controlled Gas Cooker. 1920s

Background imageCooking Collection: Advert, Gas Cooking Stove, Kingston-upon-Thames

Advert, Gas Cooking Stove, Kingston-upon-Thames Gas Company, Thames Street, Surrey. 1902

Background imageCooking Collection: Festival Dainties for Easter

Festival Dainties for Easter, Radiation Gas Cooker booklet. 1920s

Background imageCooking Collection: Menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore

Menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore
Front cover, menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore, showing a chef and his young assistant in a ramshackle and untidy kitchen. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1930s

Background imageCooking Collection: Advert for Marmite

Advert for Marmite, December 1933. 1933

Background imageCooking Collection: Poster, The effects of over-cooking and keeping hot

Poster, The effects of over-cooking and keeping hot. Vitamin value, goodness, taste go up in smoke - result is waste. 1945

Background imageCooking Collection: Advert, Murray, McVinnie & Co, Ironmongers, Glasgow

Advert, Murray, McVinnie & Co, Ironmongers, Glasgow
Advert for Murray, McVinnie & Co, Chandlers and Ironmongers, Mavisbank, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Background imageCooking Collection: Ancient keys and cooking utensils

Ancient keys and cooking utensils
Ancient keys found in Velletri 1, and various cooking utensils (pot, ladle, sieve and poker) found in Naples 2. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani

Background imageCooking Collection: Interior of a communal Inuit house in Greenland

Interior of a communal Inuit house in Greenland, with families cooking, sleeping, and nursing babies. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Background imageCooking Collection: Interior of a large communal house in Nootka Sound

Interior of a large communal house in Nootka Sound, with villagers smoking and drying fish, sleeping and caring for children. The beams are decorated with large totemic faces

Background imageCooking Collection: French cook engaged for a special Elizabethan feast

French cook engaged for a special Elizabethan feast
French cook engaged to devise his own contributions to a special feast at a rich mans house in Elizabethan times. Date: 16th century

Background imageCooking Collection: Rich mans kichen staff at work

Rich mans kichen staff at work
A rich mans kichen staff at work, depicting the hospitality and charity of old times, when food was given away to poor people. 16th century

Background imageCooking Collection: Advert, Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Ironfounders, Scotland

Advert, Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Ironfounders, Scotland
Advert for Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Ironfounders and American Stove Manufacturers, Larbert, Scotland. 1905

Background imageCooking Collection: Advert, Aluminium Castings Company, Greenock

Advert, Aluminium Castings Company, Greenock, Scotland. 1905

Background imageCooking Collection: The Jam Cupboard

The Jam Cupboard
Line drawing of a cupboard, shelves groaning with an assortment of jars containing homemade jam. Date: c. 1930

Background imageCooking Collection: Fletchers Gas Cooking Ranges

Fletchers Gas Cooking Ranges. 19th century

Background imageCooking Collection: Emigration - Fall into the Hands of Cannibals

Emigration - Fall into the Hands of Cannibals. 19th century

Background imageCooking Collection: Christmas at Windsor Castle, kitchen 1857

Christmas at Windsor Castle, kitchen 1857
Christmas time at Windsor Castle, cooks preparing for the royal banquet. Date: 1857

Background imageCooking Collection: Landing on Cape Cod 1620

Landing on Cape Cod 1620
A group of men with rifles stand in the distance on the beach of Cape Cod, as women in the foreground tend fires for cooking and begin washing clothes. Date: 1620

Background imageCooking Collection: Encampment of General Foreys Troops at Fort-de-France

Encampment of General Foreys Troops at Fort-de-France
En route to Mexico, troops under general Forey set up camp on the savannah of Fort-de-France in Martinique. Tents are set up by a gated statue, with soldiers resting and cooking food. Date: 1862

Background imageCooking Collection: Paraguay Women at Camp

Paraguay Women at Camp
Three women, wives or bed partners of soldiers during the Paraguayan War, make camp. Sitting by a thatched building, three women make food on a smoke fire, a child standing by them. Date: 1867

Background imageCooking Collection: Christmas at Windsor Castle, roasting beef 1856

Christmas at Windsor Castle, roasting beef 1856
Roasting the Royal baron of beef for the Christmas banquet, overseen by the careful superintendence of the roasting cooks, who coax the baron, with sufficient basting

Background imageCooking Collection: Cupid with baking tray on a Valentine card

Cupid with baking tray on a Valentine card
Cupid with baking tray and verse on a Valentine card with pull tab. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageCooking Collection: Cartoon, Ruling the Roast

Cartoon, Ruling the Roast. circa 1833

Background imageCooking Collection: Boy with an empty dish on a Thanksgiving postcard

Boy with an empty dish on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Background imageCooking Collection: Boy serving a fruit pie on a Thanksgiving postcard

Boy serving a fruit pie on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Background imageCooking Collection: Boy serving a roast turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard

Boy serving a roast turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Background imageCooking Collection: Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle 1887

Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle 1887
Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle. The baron of beef was an annual institution at Windsor and was cut from the first prize fat bullock at the Shaw Farm Sale

Background imageCooking Collection: Maconochie s, WW1 advertisement

Maconochie s, WW1 advertisement
Advertisement for Maconochies " rich and delicious stew...a sustaining and economical meal for a family." 1917

Background imageCooking Collection: Young woman cooking in a kitchen

Young woman cooking in a kitchen Date: circa 1990s

Background imageCooking Collection: Improved cast-iron portable copper

Improved cast-iron portable copper
Mounted on wheels, a man pouring water into a cast-iron portable boiler. Date: late 19th century

Background imageCooking Collection: Garberville, Humboldt County, California, USA

Garberville, Humboldt County, California, USA
Street in Garberville, Humboldt County, California, USA, showing Knapps Good Food. Date: circa 1940

Background imageCooking Collection: Cartoon - Cooking Made Easy

Cartoon - Cooking Made Easy (No.3), an ironic depiction. 19th century

Background imageCooking Collection: Poster, Chart IV, Vitamin C in cabbage, WW2

Poster, Chart IV, Vitamin C in cabbage, WW2
Poster, Chart IV, Vitamin C in cabbage. 1940s

Background imageCooking Collection: Typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix, WW1

Typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix, WW1
A typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix. Here I took my cafe au lait each morning before going down line. Annotated on back of picture - Hortense Delacroix

Background imageCooking Collection: The school-room as it ought to be 1879

The school-room as it ought to be 1879
Young ladies being tutored by a French chef, with governess standing near by. Date: 1879

Background imageCooking Collection: BEDOUIN TENT, PALESTINE

BEDOUIN TENT, PALESTINE
two men sit comforatbly round the fire waiting for the food to cook. Date: 1913

Background imageCooking Collection: Girls in a cookery lesson, learning to cook tarts and a joint of beef which a group of

Girls in a cookery lesson, learning to cook tarts and a joint of beef which a group of teachers will buy for their dinner

Background imageCooking Collection: Ceramic and earthenware pots and pans, casserole and soup dishes, etc

Ceramic and earthenware pots and pans, casserole and soup dishes, etc. Date: 1930s

Background imageCooking Collection: Deer and ox roasting is often part of a celebration or custom

Deer and ox roasting is often part of a celebration or custom, in various parts of Britain. Here deer carcasses are being roasted in the open air at Bournemouth, England. Date: 1950s

Background imageCooking Collection: A Philips food blender or liquidiser in a trendy shade of 70s orange

A Philips food blender or liquidiser in a trendy shade of 70s orange. Date: 1974

Background imageCooking Collection: Gipsies encampment, France: cooking & preparing food, gambling and giving birth

Gipsies encampment, France: cooking & preparing food, gambling and giving birth... Date: circa 1630

Background imageCooking Collection: The Bazaars, Cairo, Egypt

The Bazaars, Cairo, Egypt
circa 1910s



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