Food Collection (page 3)

Juniperus communis, juniper
Plate 53 from Botanicum Medicinale (1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Vegetable roots
Plate 4 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Racines alimentaires

Theobroma cacao, cocoa pod
Plate 49 from Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous (1858) by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Ananas aculeatus, pineapple
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Prunus sp. peach (Grimwoods Royal George or Grosse Mignon
Plate 41 from Pomona Londinensis (1818) by William Hooker. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Daucus carota, carrot
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Thanksgiving turkey
Two small children carry an incredibly large turkey on a platter Date: c. 1920

Farrows mushroom ketchup
Farrows Mushroom Ketchup, 1909 Date: 1909

Eat more fish
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, More Than Half The Catch Is Sold As Fried Fish Date: 1927-1933

Food - don t waste it. Date 1917

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

Woman Butcher 1920S
A young British female butcher proudly displays her freshly slaughtered pigs, hanging from their hooks. Date: 1920s

Street scene with shops, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A street scene with shops, in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. The large corner shop is Bells grocery store, decorated with flags, perhaps to celebrate Empire Day (24 May)

Railway Station at Rawalpindi, then in Northern India in the North West Frontier Province, now in Pakistan

Poster encouraging people to eat more fish
Poster encouraging people to Eat More Fish. More than half the catch is sold as fried fish. A range of people, including two children, in a fish and chip shop

Smithfield Meat Market London
Exterior of the Smithfield New Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market, London

Neaves Food
Advertisement for Neaves food, showing children from the Russian imperial family

Advert / Bread / Hovis 1895
Hovis Bread - advertised as a cure for indigestion, as supplied to the Royal Family!

Advert for Whitbread Pale Ale
WHITBREADs PALE ALE featuring Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks Jnr at Grosvenor House

Can Openers, Skewers Etc
Can openers, sharpening steels, cutlet bats/beaters, larding pins, trussing needles, hatchet, skewers and steak tongs

Save Food Poster / Wwi
Poster depicting a British soldier encouraging those on the home front to save food in response to food shortages due to German U-boat targeting of British merchant ships

Save Food / Wwi Poster
A First World War poster encouraging people to save food, featuring a sailor about to embark for war on a battle ship

Don t Waste Bread Wwi
Poster advising the public to eat less bread, and save two thick slices a day to defeat the U-boats during WWI. Thats a dangerous way to cut bread!

Poster for Ovo Sports Food
Advertising poster for Ovo Sport, a special food developed to provide nourishment during sport and training. The tagline claims Instant Fortification

Sunday Roast
A mouth-watering Sunday roast meal - a joint of roast beef, served with roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding

Advert / Frys Chocolate
Nine children watch through a sweetshop window as a lucky little girl buys herself a bar of Frys chocolate

Advert / Frys Chocolate
Four public schoolboys enjoy their bars of Frys chocolate - Far too good to share with their unfortunate friend

Art / Hogarth / Roast Beef
THE GATE OF CALAIS, OR, O THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND a satire on the well-fed English versus the poorly- fed French

Pressing Cider Apples
The Pound-House of a Devon cider farm : on the right is the mill, and on the left is the press where the mock of crushed apples is built into a square heap for pressing

Claridges Hotel Menu
A dinner menu from the Claridges Hotel, London

1940S Housewife Cooking
A housewife cooks on a simple stove in a bare and austere kitchen, adding milk to the pan she is stirring

Borough Market 1864
The new Borough market is full of people buying their vegetables

ADVERT FOR FORCE
High o er the fence leaps Sunny Jim Force is the food which raises him

Champion Beer Drinker
A German champion beer drinker downs a huge tankard of beer!

18th C French Kitchen
Several cooks work in a French kitchen to prepare and bake pies and pastry, a hare and a bird pie of some kind, perhaps pigeon

Jesus Feeds 5000
When a crowd of five thousand, who have gathered to hear him, grow hungry, Jesus provides them with food - five barley loaves and two fishes suffice for all

Primus Stove
THE PRIMUS STOVE North, South, East or West Primus is best

Christmas Cookery C1905
Preparing the Christmas dinner for all the family, not forgetting the kitten and the Household Gnome

Soho, London - 29 Romilly Street W1 - Kettners Restaurant (opened 1867, closed January 2016). Photographed at night. 1973

Gabriel Masselin, Waiter
Gabriel Masselin served as a waiter at the Grand-Vefour, Paris, for over thirty years. Date: 1879

Wine Waiter Opens Bottle
The wine waiter opens a bottle Date: 1878

London Kebab House
Dining outside a Kebab House on Charlotte Street, central London. Date: late 1960s

Girls filling penny tins of mustard, Norwich, Norfolk
Girls at work filling penny tins of mustard at the firm of J Colman Ltd, Norwich, Norfolk

Poster advertising Pettijohns breakfast food, showing Red Riding Hood -- or is it Goldilocks? -- and a family of bears sharing an outdoor breakfast together in the woods

Typical Scene in Pub
A typical pub scene - one drunk gets aggressive, another over-cheerful; young children purchase drink and old women gossip... and the landlord pours

In a Butchers Shop
THE MAN OF TASTE - a butchers customer orders two ounces of Boiled Beef, Cut with a Ham y Knife to give it a Relish

Illicit Whisky Still
An illicit still in Donegal (Ireland)

Carrying Tea by Camel
Carrying tea by camel in Asia

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