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Killing Cattle ArgentinaPublic slaughtering of cattle, Argentina. Date: circa 1840
Mincing BeefMinced beef coming out of the mincing machine onto a metal plate. Date: 1960s
Butchers Boy DeliveringA London butchers boy, delivering a leg of meat to a customer, is dressed in the traditional butchers blue smock with broad white cuffs & apron spattered with blood. Date: circa 1870
Romans Slaughter a PigRomans slaughter a pig in a large pot over a fire. Date: ancient
Chicago ButcherySlaughter underway at a Chicago pork butchery. Date: 1886
Slaughtering Beef 1895Slaughtering cattle at Armour & Co. in Chicago, USA. Date: 1895
A bell founder, 16th century GermanyThe interior of a 16th century German bell foundry
Bacon Joints 1857A diagram showing bacon joints. Date: 1857
Cuts of Veal and MuttonCuts of lamb and veal, of varying quality. Date: late 19th century
Kosher Slaughter 1858A kosher slaughter in progress. Date: 1858
Frozen Meat MarketJolly traders at a frozen meat market in St Petersburg. A whole piglet hangs from the roof. Date: 1913
Advert / Atora Beef SuetAtora Beef Suet Date: 1932
Advert / Meat / Villette HamJambon Villette Date: circa 1924
Canine. Feline ButcherAn unusual butchers stall in the Marche Saint-Germain - dog-meat and cat-meat offered for sale... Date: jan-Feb 1871
Poulterers shop, Holborn Hill 1845Displayed poultry hung outside in Holborn Hill for customers to buy for their Christmas dinner. Date: 1845
Advertisement, Libbys Corned Beef, delicious hot or cold. 1957
Advert for H. W Garrard & Son domestic equipment 1889Domestic machinery including a rotary knife - cleaning machine and a mincer machine. 1889
Christmas beef and plum puddingChristmas beef and a round, boiled plum pudding to eat with the meat. Date: C.1800
Father Christmas and pudding on a Christmas card, with two poems: The Collector, and The Pudding That Cut Away. Date: circa 1890s
Three cherubs fighting on a New Year cardThree cherubs fighting and breaking things on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Stationery, George Simpson & Sons, Gillamoor, YorkshireStationery, George Simpson & Sons, Gillamoor, Ham and Bacon Curers, Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire, with handwritten details. 1916
Stationery, Crowle & Moss, Truro, CornwallStationery, Crowle & Moss, Pork Butchers, Bacon Curers, and Lard Refiners, 8 Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall, with handwritten details. 1916
Two cats and a bird on a New Year cardStrategy -- two cats in the snow, eating food from a plate on a New Year card. A bird gets ready to grab some of their food. Date: circa 1890s
Clown and jester on a Christmas card -- the clown has dropped all the food and drink from his tray. Date: circa 1890s
Clown with food and drink on a Christmas and New Year card, with Harlequin and Columbine on either side of him (they are stealing from Pantalones table on the other side of the windows)
Three dogs eating their dinner on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Two cats running from a bird on a New Year cardVictory -- two cats in the snow, running from a bird who has been eating food from a plate on a New Year card. They have managed to steal some of the food from under him. Date: circa 1890s
Two cats watching a bird on a New Year cardConspiracy -- two cats in the snow, watching a bird eating food from a plate on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Food and staff, Plume of Feathers, CornwallStaff with a fine display of food at the Plume of Feathers bar, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s
Boys clearing snow on a Christmas cardBoys clearing snow from the front of a house on a Christmas and New Year card. circa 1890s
Two boys snowballing on a Christmas card, when they should be making deliveries. Date: circa 1890s
The Brass Rail restaurant, New York City, USAThe Brass Rail restaurant, 7th Avenue and 49th Street, New York City, USA, showing meat cooking in front of burning coals on an English Roasting Jack. Date: circa 1940
Cartoon, Methodical training, WW1Cartoon, Methodical training. A French soldier on the Western Front has been given a dog as a mascot. He is gradually training him by giving him less meat each day
Man delivering to butchers shop, Liverpool Road, EcclesA man delivering meat and poultry to a butchers shop on Liverpool Road, Peel Green, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977
Cartoon, Cost of food and drink, WW1Cartoon illustrating the cost of food and drink during the First World War. Various tradesmen comment on the cost of their produce. Date: 1916
Trade card, C A Rumpf, poulterer of Nebraska, USATrade card for C A Rumpf, wholesale poulterer of Hastings, Nebraska, USA, offering butter and eggs as well as live and dressed poultry at reasonable prices. Date: 1898
East Main Street, Springfield, Ohio, USAView of East Main Street, Springfield, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1910
Illustrations of a black dog by Cecil AldinIllustrations of a black dog called Caro, by Cecil Aldin. Seen here getting hold of meat and sausages in a butchers shop. Date: 1932
French Theatre -- La Condamnacion de BancquetLa Condamnacion de Bancquet, a morality play against gluttony attributed to Nicolas (or Nicole) de la Chesnaye. Showing a plump man with a flask of red wine, a chicken on a spit
Men with mobile field oven and motorcycle, WW1Men with a mobile field oven, and a Royal Navy motorcycle combo, WW1. The chalked words on the oven, HMS Fred Carno, were a comic saying for chaotic operations. circa 1914
Advertisement for Holbrooks Fruit SauceBack of an advertisement for Holbrooks Fruit Sauce, of two bottles side by side -- actually an opened out needle holder. The verse describes how a husband would not eat any meat until his wife bought
Why Englands Food is Safe, WW1Why 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, WW1Cartoon, a fat German man eating a plate of pork and cabbage. Date: 1915
WW2 Christmas card, The Weeks RationWW2 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, WW1Scene 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 AdministrationDesign 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