Meat Collection (page 10)

Why Englands Food is Safe, WW1
Why Englands Food is Safe, showing how the majority of food supplies come from countries who are not on the side of the enemy during the First World War. Date: 1914

Horse and Carriage at Meat Market, Unknown Location, England. Date: 1900s

Cartoon, German man eating, WW1
Cartoon, a fat German man eating a plate of pork and cabbage. Date: 1915

WW2 Christmas card, The Weeks Ration
WW2 Christmas card, showing a butcher in his shop, a reproduction of a painting entitled The Weeks Ration. The verse inside reads: When we queue for our chop in the butchers shop

Mellody Farm, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA -- residence of J Ogden Armour, meat packing magnate. The estate had its own railway station. Date: circa 1910

Army Camp Store, WW1
Scene inside a well-stocked Army Camp Store, with prices chalked up above the counter, and five men ready to serve customers. Date: 1914-1918

WWI Poster, US Food Administration
Design by Harvey Dunn, Victory is a Question of Stamina, Send the Wheat, Meat, Fats, Sugar, the fuel for Fighters. United States Food Administration poster. Date: 1917

Tete de Veau a la Toulouse, calfs head
A decoratively displayed French dish: a calfs head, prepared in the Toulouse style. Date: 1887

Catering for 3000 people on The Queen Mary Ocean Liner
Queen Mary Ocean Liner, always adequately filled the ship to provide for extra days incase the ship was delayed, also at any time they could supply anything for the passengers that they may ask for

Rationing of Food, February 1918, WW1
Page from The Sphere reporting on the introduction of food rationing of meat and butter in London and Home Counties on 25 February 1918

Pet food seller
Cats and dogs meat. Pet food street seller. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Charles II knights the sirloin
Charles II knights a " Sir Loin" of beef at a feast. Date: 1600s

French scout with dish of meat
A French scout carrying a dish of meat ready for cooking

Suffragette Publicity Advertising Meat. A large and prominent placard hangs outside a butchers shop owned by the London Central Meat Co. Ltd

Suffragette Publicity Advertising BOVRIL. The tram terminus at Brislington, South East of Bristol. A large advertising placard on the right reads, Vote for Women who buy BOVRIL

Roberts plates of meat. Edwardian humour. Date: circa 1905

Carving a baron of beef at the Lord Mayors Show, 1847
Carving a baron of beef at the Guildhall on the Lord Mayors day, November 1847. Both barons of beef were raised on pedestals draped in crimson, making a striking feature at the banquet. Date: 1847

Bringing in a baron of beef at the Lord Mayors Show, 1847
Bringing the baron of beef into the Guildhall on the Lord Mayors day, November 1847. Date: 1847

Aftermath of major fire, Smithfield Poultry Market, London
The aftermath of a fire at Smithfield Poultry Market, London, on 23 January 1958, looking north along the eastern gangway, taken about 36 hours after the fire had broken out

Blitz in London - AFS firefighter, WW2
Blitz in London - a smiling AFS firefighter, a former Smithfield meat porter named Eddie. Date: 1940s

Major fire, Smithfield Poultry Market, London
A major fire at Smithfield Poultry Market, London, on 23 January 1958 -- firefighters with hosepipes and a Dennis fire engine (rubble from roadworks not connected with fire)

Commandeering meat for the army during World War I
Cargoes of frozen meat were commandeered by the Government on arrival in the UK. On the eve of the war the prices of provisions shot up suddenly but the Government stepped in

Real Turtle Soup
An illustrated advert by Freemans table delicacies offering turtle soup, made with West Indian turtles in compressed tablet form. A cheap alternative at two pence per plate. Date: 1915

A week of food required for the German Army, WW1
A scale drawing giving an impression of the volume of food needed to feed the German Army for one week during the First World War compared to the spires of Cologne Cathedral. Date: 1914

War Time Pudding with Oxo, 1918
Advertisement for Oxo from the First World War, suggesting that the versatile stock cube could help out your meat ration. A new Oxo dish prepared by an unidentified celebrated chef

Female singer in concert, Penwith, Cornwall
Unidentified female singer in concert with Meat Loaf at the Penwith Rock Festival, Cornwall. Date: 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

Butchers shop, 1850
A curious social scene outside a butchers shop, 1850. A Victorian man gestures towards a rather suprised looking matrons basket of carrots

Butchers shop, 1843
A Victorian couple pause to admire a butchers shop, exhibiting prize meat at Christmas in 1843. Date: 1843

Nursery Rhymes -- monkey, horse and cart, butcher
Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations, showing a monkey falling from a tree, a horse pulling a cart full of sacks, and a butcher who has cut his hand on a knife. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations. A man in a room full of mice reaches for a plate of meat on a shelf. A bridegroom wheels his bride along the road in a wheelbarrow. A frog eats a worm

WW1 - Men in uniform having a picnic - Mesoptamian Front?
Three men in uniform having a picnic in a barren landscape, watched by a dog - possibly on the Mesoptamian Front during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Paris Les Halles
Bird s-eye view of the markets of Paris - with areas for boucherie (meat), ble (corn), dras (cloth) and so on. Date: 14/15th centuries

Iranian Butchers
Meat salesmen in Iran. Date: 1930s

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

17th century buildings on Aldgate High Street, London. Date: circa 1907

Thessaloniki - The Meat Market Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Itinerant Meat Seller / Butcher
Thessaloniki, Greece - Itinerant Street Meat Seller with scales and young assistant. Weighing out some fowl. Date: circa 1910s

St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada - Bowling Bros Sealing Fleet
Wharves at St. Johns Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada - Bowling Brothers Steam Sealing Fleet Date: 1902

The Slaughterhouse - Puntarenas, Costa Rica
The Slaughterhouse (Matadero) - Puntarenas, Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Selecting turtles to sell at market, Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Cattle Yard, Chomes, Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Winter, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people keeping warm inside with a blazing fire (left), a pigs carcase being cut up outside, wood being chopped

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