Food Collection (#90)

Three women preparing a meal, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Vegetable stall, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Fruit stall, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
People at a fruit stall in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Street scene with bread vendor, Turkey. Date: circa 1870

Pastry vendor, Egypt, in a studio photo. Date: circa 1870

Food factory(?), China
Scene in what appears to be some kind of food factory, China. Date: circa 1890

Trench Cooking for Women
Cookery lessons in a trench dug-out - a special feature at Kings College for Women, London, as training for nurses leaving for the front. Date: 1915

Christmas dinner at the Front 1916
Soldiers eating a hot meal during Christmas at the front, in World War I. 1916

Bonzo is hoist with his own petard! by George Studdy
Bonzo is hoist with his own petard! He pulls at the tablecloth, and manages to break a plate and cover his bone with some kind of sauce or custard. Date: 1924

Bonzo, Chee-Kee and Jock by George Studdy
Bonzo, Chee-Kee and Jock suddenly remember their New Years Resolutions, and help to remove the feathers from a delivery of poultry. Date: 1924

The Seven Good Deeds of Bonzo (Saturday) -- he gives the fattened Christmas turkey a little exercise. Date: 1923

Weekly food ration for one person 1946
Weekly rationed food post Second World War in Britain. Bread and vegetables where unrationed, tins where obtained by points. Date: 1946

Hot dinner for men in the trenches, WW1
A ration party of the Kings Liverpool Regiment preparing to take to the trenches a hot dinner cooked in a travelling kitchen. Date: 1915

Out of Doors -- two children feeding pigeons in a garden. Date: 19th century

Pug Peter -- mice on a boat
Pug Peter -- A Water-Picnic in Mousiland. Mice on a boat at sunset. Date: 1905

People on holiday
A group of people on holiday, posing for their photo in a pub doorway. Date: 20th century

British cooks at work near front line, Western Front, WW1
British army cooks at work near the front line, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers preparing food, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers preparing food on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers in trench, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers in a trench with kitchen equipment, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Black soldiers preparing food, Western Front, France, WW1
Black soldiers preparing food at a camp near the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1917

British soldiers keeping warm, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers keeping warm round an oven on the Western Front during World War One. Tins of food are being heated up ready for their meal. Date: circa 1916

Men of the Black Watch having breakfast, WW1
Men of the Black Watch having breakfast after delivering a counterattack on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Stacks of provisions, Western Front, France, WW1
Stacks of boxed provisions on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British cooks at work, Western Front, WW1
British cooks at work on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British doctors sitting at a table, Western Front, WW1
British doctors (Medical Officers) attached to a dressing station, sitting at a table complete with a white tablecloth, near the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Allied soldiers relaxing with piano music, WW1
Allied soldiers relaxing with refreshments and music from a piano on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Soldiers of Black Watch after counterattack, WW1
Soldiers of the Black Watch having breakfast after delivering a counterattack on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Cook preparing food for British troops, Western Front, WW1
A cook preparing food for British troops near the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Harvesting scene with soldiers, Western Front, WW1
A harvesting scene with soldiers on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Australian cookhouse on Western Front, WW1
An Australian cookhouse on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Gordon Highlanders in trench, Western Front, WW1
Gordon Highlanders cutting up rations in a reserve trench before moving up to the front line on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Mules wearing nosebags, Western Front, WW1
Mules stabled in the open air wearing their nosebags, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Food supply ships delivering to Western Front, WW1
Food supply ships delivering to the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Newly baked bread for soldiers, Western Front, WW1
Newly baked bread ready for sending to soldiers on the Western Front during World War One. The bakers stand in a line, with ovens in the background. Date: circa 1916

Arrival of a meat-ship for the Western Front
Meat in canvas-covered sacks being transferred from ship to train, destined for British soldiers on the Western Front during World War One. Date: 1917

Big fighting ships auxiliaries by G. H. Davis
Navy notes of the week. A big fighting ships auxiliaries: some little-known members of the British fleet. 1912

Scene inside a bread store, Western Front, WW1
Scene inside a bread store, with loaves stacked on shelves ready to go up the line to British soldiers on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Unloading meat from ship to train, Western Front, WW1
Unloading meat from ship to train, destined for British soldiers on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Newly baked bread for the Western Front, WW1
Bakers with newly baked bread destined for soldiers on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Weighing meat destined for Western Front, WW1
Weighing meat being transferred from ship to train, destined for British soldiers on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Ships during winter months by G. H. Davis
Naval notes of the week (lightships and buoys). Above: revictualling a lightship during the winter months. Below: hold tight for your life -- attending to the Mariners Fingerposts in winter

Hidden lesson of the Mauretanias record by G. H. Davis
The hidden lesson of the Mauretanias record. Showing the Cunard liner Mauretania in grey war paint, being convoyed across the Atlantic by a battleship cruiser

Allied troops in Burma by G. H. Davis
How the Allied troops in Burma are kept fit: fresh meat and vegetables carried great distances in refrigerators. Showing the system of transport of fresh supplies by rail

Shanghai refugee kitchen
The Ward Road Camp Kitchen, in the Hongkew (Hongkou) district of Shanghai. The Kitchen prepared food for 6000 refugees each day, and people living locally also bought food from the kitchen

Increasing supplies for lifeboats by G. H. Davis
Increasing the water and food supplies for ships lifeboats during the Second World War. New measures for saving the lives of crews of ships sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1941

Japanese military supplies
Japanese trucks during the war with China, taking munitions and food supplies to the front line and returning empty to re-load. Date: 1937-1945

Food rationing comparison by G. H. Davis
Food rationing in Great Britain during the two World Wars: a comparison of the periods 1917-1920 and 1940-1946. The chief topic of conversation today -- food

Advert Mellins fresh milk for babies
Mellins food, fresh cows milk food infants, medical opinion places the superiority of fresh milk over dried milk foods beyond all question. Date: 1916

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