Foodstuffs Collection

Central Stores & Post Office, High Street, Chalford, Glos
Central Stores and Post Office, High Street, Chalford, Gloucestershire. Date: circa 1909

Gail Borden / Colour
GAIL BORDEN American inventor of condensed foodstuffs

A Christmas advert for Bird's Custard. Date: 1943

Advert for Bird's Custard, showing a serving suggestion. Date: 1943

Wartime advert for Bird's Custard. Date: 1943

Advert for Certo pure fruit pectin, featuring a recipe for strawberry jam. Date: 1932

Advert for Bird's Custard, highlighting its nutritional value when served with rhubarb. Date: 1932

An advert for Oxo Cubes, as extolled by a beaming baby. Date: circa 1932

Brighouse, West Yorkshire - Mazdaznan - Harvest Festival
circa 1910s

C17 COOKING SCENE
Preparing foodstuffs of every kind - fowls are dressed, cows are milked, grapes are trod, soup is heated, bread and other items are carried by porters, biscuits are tasted Date: 17th century

The Borne Market (Mercat del Born) of Barcelona next to the church of Santa Maria del Mar, c. 1775. Early Modern Era. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona City History Museum

London Trade Card - Mrs Holts Italian Warehouse at the two Olive Posts in the Strand. Selling Italian silks, satins, velvets, damasks, fans, hats, as well as various Italian foodstuffs. 18th century

Map of the French Department of Charente - No. 16
Map of the French Department of Charente - No.16, featuring inset illustrations of Paper production industry, La Rochefoucauld

Map of the French Department of Loiret - No. 45
Map of the French Department of Loiret - No.45, featuring inset illustrations depicting Sully sur Loire, ceramics from Gien, foodstuffs from Orleans and an inset portrait of Gaspard II de Coligny

Huts of Ovambo people
The elaborate huts of the Ovambo people of the west coast of Africa. The hut on stilts is a store for foodstuffs. Date: 1870

Food preparation in the 17th century
Preparing foodstuffs of every kind - fowls are dressed, cows are milked, grapes are trod, soup is heated, bread and other items are carried by porters, biscuits are tasted Date: 17th century

CAIN, Henri (1859 - 1937). The Workers Lunch, from Le Petit Journal, 1891 (colour litho). Private Collection. Engraving

Russian Market Scene
A Snow-covered, bustling Russian food market from around the middle of the 19th century. Date: circa 1850

Duc De LA Force - 2
Satire on the activities of Henri Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force : the discovery of hoards of foodstuffs and medicines caused immense scandal. Date: 1721

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

Japan - Woman buying food from a street vendor, possibly rather grateful to be able to rest his heavily-laden yolk of wares. Date: circa 1906

Boston, Massachusetts - Quincy Market. From its beginning, the Market was largely used as a produce and foodstuff shopping center, with various grocers of such goods as eggs, cheese

Crosse & Blackwell - Vinegars and Oils
An assortment of condements mainly the bottles of vinegar and Oil made by Crosse and Blackwell, the illustration also shows various ingrediants of a salad such as tomatoes

China - Qingdao - Tradesmen
China - Qingdao (Tsingtao) - Tradesmen, selling a variety of foodstuffs, ceremic pots, plates and bowls, reed bags, grills and dried rushes. Date: circa 1910s

Sudan - Khartoum - The Grain Market Date: circa 1904

Duc De LA Force
Satire on the activities of Henri Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de la Force : the discovery of hoards of foodstuffs and medicines caused immense scandal

Food Shortage Queues
Food shortages are felt throughout Russia, thanks to the war and the revolution : there are long queues for basic foodstuffs

Tibetan Food Stamp
TIBETAN FOOD STAMP This talisman was pressed onto soft foodstuffs, creating an image which protected the lamas from evil spirits

Colombian Market
A market at Carthagena, Colombia, where foodstuffs and other produce are exchanged

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