Food Collection (#95)

SCOTTs OYSTER BAR
Scotts Oyster Bar, in the West End of London. Date: 1930s

Javanese Rice Fields
Harvesting in the rice fields, Java, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Kiddies Refreshments
Young entrepreneurs running a food and drinks stall selling milk (2d a cup), cocoa (3d a cup and milk! Date: early 1930s

Prohibition Stunt
During the Prohibition era in the U.S.A. drinkers had to go to great lengths to think of new and ingenious ways and places to hide their booze! Date: 1930s

Hiding Prohibition Booze
A young woman up a step ladder demonstrates the enormous lengths people went to to hide their bootleg booze during the Prohibition in the U.S.A.! Date: early 1930s

Grape Pickers 1930S
Grape pickers in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Old Women Grape Pickers
French peasant women harvesting grapes in the Champagne region, France. Date: early 1930s

Grape Pickers in Love
A young couple laden with baskets of freshly picked grapes, looking very happy and in love, Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

Royal Grape Vines
A man harvesting grapes, cutting them from the Royal vines at Hampton Court, England. Date: early 1930s

Bananas for Export
Piles of freshly picked bunches of bananas, ready for export, probably in the West Indies. Date: 1930s

Model Hop Picker
A Swedish girl hop picker. Date: early 1930s

Scotts Oyster Bars
A group of waiters at Scotts Oyster Bar, West End, London. Date: 1930s

Hors D oeuvre
Plates of hors d oeuvre. Date: early 1930s

Mobile Teas 1930S
A travelling cafe, a van selling teas, snacks and other light refreshments. Date: early 1930s

Blindfolded Wine Tasting
Guess the vintage : a lucky blindfolded woman gets to taste six bottles of wine in a cellar lined with bottles of wine! Date: early 1930s

African Bread Maker
A woman in West Africa, making bread on the banks of a river. Date: early 1930s

Wine Tasting Session
Guess the vintage : a lucky young woman gets to taste six bottles of wine in a cellar lined with bottles of wine! Date: early 1930s

Cocktails at Home
Two young women having a girlie night in, mixing cocktails at a home cocktail bar. Date: early 1930s

Waiters School
Men waiting on a table, a training session at the London School of Waiters. Date: early 1930s

How to Carve
The correct way to carve poultry, a demonstration at the London School of Carving. Date: early 1930s

Beauty Products
A young woman applying beauty products at her dressing table. The bottles are labelled Skins Food, Plaster etc. Date: early 1930s

Whisky Glass Revolver
An Al Capone cut glass hip flask revolver for holding whisky, ideal for the perfect shot! Date: early 1930s

Monastery Refectory
A Benedictine monk from the monastery of Lerin, France, arranging the tables for mealtime in the refectory. Date: early 1930s

LA Salle as Benefactor
JEAN-BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE French churchman, educator and benefactor, founder of the Freres Chretiens, hands out food to the hungry during the famines of 1693 and 1709. Date: 1651 - 1719

Marketing on Skates
A girl on ice skates, selling her hot food and drink on a frozen river in Holland. Date: early 1930s

Chocolate Zeppelin
A little girl with blonde hair in plaits, sitting on a wooden bench, eating a chocolate zeppelin wrapped in silver paper! Date: early 1930s

Selling Watermelons
Egyptian traders selling watermelons from a boat on the River Nile. Date: early 1930s

Slices of Pate
Pate, possibly rabbit, covered in jelly and garnished with parsley Date: 1950s

Roast Chicken and Sauce
A whole roast chicken covered in a savoury sauce and served with celery Date: 1930s

Repeating Pattern - Variety of dessert dishes. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Advertisement for McVitie biscuits -- models posing as mother and two children (Jane Hancock, Merrill Colbrook and John Moulder Brown). 1959

Advertisement for Kelloggs breakfast cereals (Sugar Frosted Flakes) -- three child models (Adrienne Poster and two others). 1959

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San and maid at suppertime
Japanese Woman O-Koto-San talks to her maid while partaking of supper. Date: circa 1905

Japan - Geisha Girls eating noodles Date: circa 1905

WW2 - Home front - British housewives queue to buy eggs
October, 1940 - British housewives queue to buy eggs, both domestically sourced and supplied from the Dominions - in this case, Canada. Date: 1940

Senso-ji - Stalls by Buddhist temple, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Senso-ji - Food and refreshment stalls outside the Buddhist temple, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

American Red Cross Clubmobile - UK - WW2
Voluntary K.P! WW2 - American Red Cross Clubmobile (USAF) - Somewhere in Great Britain. American Red Cross Canteen vans staffed by American Girls bring hot coffee

Japan - A Japanese Cook. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Silk Industry - Cutting the Mulberry leaves, for the silkworms to consume as they grow to maturity. Date: circa 1907

China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Village Community
China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Rural village Community Date: circa 1910s

Chinese food seller in front of a Brothel, Shanghai, China
A rather extraordinary card of a Chinese food seller in front of a Brothel, Scott Road, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1910s

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army Wintering near Shaho
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army Wintering near the Shaho River along the MukdenPort Arthur spur of the China Far East Railway north of Liaoyang, Manchuria

Japan - Women preparing food including chopping a daikon
Japan - Women preparing food including a Geisha girl preparing (cutting) daikon (white radish), possibly for takuan or bettarazuke dishes and another woman grinding foodstuffs using a pestle

South Africa - Women carrying mealie-meal - a relatively coarse flour made from maize (called mielies or mealies). A staple food in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi

Thessaloniki, Greece - Itinerant Street Lung seller. Such offal cuts were used as cat food. Date: circa 1907

Iron and Steel Act - Cartoon on shortage of steel
Fears over steel shortages due the impending Nationalisation of the Steel Industry via the Iron and Steel Act of 1949. Two gents face a cautious Seafood seller (George Higgs)

Turkey, Istanbul - Pide Seller (filled folded Turkish Flatbreads). Date: circa 1930s

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Where to put Cookery Books?
WW2 Rationing - Humour - Where shall we put the old-time Cookery Books? Fiction or Humour ?! Date: circa 1944

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