Provisions Collection

Chez Auguste on Old Compton Street, Soho
Chez Auguste at 38 Old Compton Street, Soho, London; next to Coiffure Internationale, the international shaving saloon and hairdressers; on the end is F Gennari Ltd, wines and provisions. 1947

Soho, London - 66 Old Compton Street W1 - Del Monico continental delicacies. 1973

Fortnum & Masons Christmas Box for soldiers, WW1
Advertisement for quintessential London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in particular their Thirty Shilling Xmas Box of selected provisions which could be sent to the front for lucky soldiers

Inside Shackletons Hut
The interior of the hut of Ernest Shackleton (1907-9), which has been preserved in exactly the same state as left by Shackleton Date: 2005

Sainsburys Shop 1914
The store of J Sainsbury - Purveyors of High Class Provisions

Discovery of America. Second Voyage of Columbus. Jamaica. 15
Jamaica. 15th century. Second Voyage of Columbus. Jamaicans refuse to give food to Columbus and he, knowing that there will be a lunar eclipse, tells them that God will deny the light

On board the Indus emigrant ship
The cover of The Graphic, 29 June 1872, including five illustrations of life on board the Indus emigrant ship, one of the London Line of Queensland Packets, which set sail from Gravesend

The Provision Shop. A General Grocers store selling rabbits, turkeys, chops, butter and tinned foods

Advert, Walter Mitchell & Sons, Ayr, Scotland
Advert for Walter Mitchell & Sons, Food Provisions, Ayr, Scotland. 1905

Queen Victoria in Nice - French satire on her donkey cart
Queen Victoria in Nice, France - a rather (!) disrespectful late 19th century French satirical caricature. In 1882, Queen Victoria began her winter affair with the Cote dAzur

RMS Lusitania - ledger listing supplies prior to sailing
RMS Lusitania - rare hardbound ledger dated 28 June 1907 to 26 August 1907 relating to supplies and provisions for the Lusitania prior to sailing

Embarkation of Christopher Columbus at Palos de la Frontera
Discovery of America. Embarkation of Christopher Columbus at Palos de la Frontera (Spain), on August 3, 1492. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2020

Advert for Thomas Whatley & Sons, Cheap Street, Bath
Advert for Thomas Whatley & Sons, Pork and Provisions, Cheap Street, Bath Date: 1902

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Una ayuda y otra (One help and another). Engraving by Ramon Puyol about the international help belonging to the fist series of Drawings of the Civil War. Litography

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Milicianos! No dsperdicieis municiones, viveres ni energias (Militia! Don't waste neither munitions, provisions nor energies)

Indo-Pacific tarpon and Chinese gizzard shad
Indo-Pacific tarpon, Megalops cyprinoides 140, Chinese gizzard shad, Clupanodon thrissa 141. Coopers making barrels for salted and pickled fish

Adverts, Walter Mitchell & Sons, The Falkirk Iron Company
Adverts for Walter Mitchell & Sons, food exporters and importers, Ayr, and The Falkirk Iron Company, Falkirk, Scotland. 1905

The Debarkment of Provisions in American Colonies
French sailors move provisions on shore, carrying sacks and barrels towards where more men are building houses. A group of Native Americans stand in the middle, directing people. Date: circa 1700

RELIEF FOR VICTIMS
The Soviet government organise trains to bring food and provisions to the homeless and hungry. Date: 1922

LADY BOUNTIFUL IN SNOW
Lady Bountiful bringing provisions to the poor Date: 1890

Camel train at Cannakale, Turkey - Chanak Crisis
A camel train at Cannakale returned from provisioning the front line during the Chanak Crisis (Chanak Affair, Chanak Incident) - a war scare in September 1922 between Britain and Republic of Turkey

Supply dump near Beaurainville, France, WW1
A supply dump behind British lines at Beaurainville, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Crimean War, foraging party after landing at Kerch
Crimean War -- a foraging party after the allies landed at Kerch, showing soldiers catching poultry and pigs. 1855

Grocers Window Display
A fine display of cheeses, eggs and other provisions in a grocers shop window Date: 1911

Patriotic German children
Seht nur, was an Liebesgaben wir mit Fleiss gesammelt haben? (Just look at what we ve collected with love) Children collecting provisions in their toy carts. World War 1.(LD) Date: 1915

Mustard loaded aboard a Royal Navy ship - 18th century
Mustard for the Royal Navy being loaded aboard a ship setting out to broaden the scope of the British Empire during the reign of King George II in the mid 18th century. Date: circa 1750

Cartoon, The... High Price of Provisions
Cartoon, The Real Cause of the present High Price of Provisions, or, a View on the Sea Coast of England with French Agents smuggling away Supplies for France

Women of Montenegro at the Front, WW1
As Europe mobilises for war, Montenegrin wives play a part by climbing the mountains to provision the frontier forts and by assisting in the digging of earthworks. Date: 1914

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

Provisions dispatched to Austrian recruits, WWI
When Germany declared war on Russia, Austria had to prepare to cope with the millions of Russian recruits they d be fighting against, increasing its army significantly

Dreadnought provisions 1914
A diagram illustrating the provisions required to maintain a crew of 900 for about one month on a dreadnought battleship. Date: 1914

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

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

Street scene outside Pratts garage, with people and cars

The Commissariat Camp in the Crimea, 1855
Engraving showing the part of the British Army camp responsible for stores and provisions during the Crimean War. By the end of the Crimean war the camp was running smoothly

Hong Kong - China - Street Coolies. The first and last are clad in straw raincoats while the one in the centre is carrying provisions purchased from the market. circa 1910s

Open Air food stall - Russia Date: 1904

Stowing Provisions Ship
How provisions for the voyage should be stowed below decks Date: circa 1845

Perspective view of landing the cannon, bombs, provisions, and water, for the Army

The dangers that The Royal Army Services Corps faced 1915
This scene depicts the difficulties and dangers of shell fire, for The Royal Army Services Corps (RASC), when trying to get supplies of food, water and clothing to the front. 1915

Silhouette. Family buying gifts
Illustration from German postcard of a family buying gifts & provisions for Christmasfrom a market stall.Date: circa 1912

Leoncavallo visiting Rowton House, London

Turco-Italian War, 1911 - loading fodder for Italian troops
Hay being loaded onto the steamship Italian, part of provisions for the Italian army in Tripoli during the 1911-1912 Turco-Italian war in Tripoli in the area now known as modern-day Libya

Picking up provisions - Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
A small steam-powered sardine fishing boat picks up provisions for the fishermen crew from a beach at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, South west France. Date: 1906

French camp - Thessaloniki
The French army camp - Thessaloniki, Greece. This fascinating card has a strong historical interest - In 1915, during World War I

Friendly Village Shop
A friendly village shop in Colebourne, a village in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England. Date: 1953

Origin Species, CH Bennett, husband hunter - mouse
Little Mousey. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a young woman on the look out for a husband, from a mouse

The Peoples Market, Whitechapel, London, 1868
Engraving showing the interior of the Peoples Market, Whitechapel, London, 1868. This establishment reportedly provided good, cheap provisions for the poor of East London

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