Shortage Collection (page 3)

Ram Roasting Tradition
The Ram Roasting Fair at Kingsteington, Devon, England, is an annual (Whit Tuesday) event. A lamb is sacrificed in thanks for rain after a period of drought. Date: circa 1950

World War Two Rationing - Christmas Dinner in pill form - rather meagre Fare. Date: circa 1941

Lord Kitchener in France during shell crisis, WW1
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) and others leaving a conference in France during the shell shortage crisis, First World War. Date: circa 1915

Rationing - WW1 - Fancy Dress Costume
Rationing was introduced into Britain at the tale end of World War One - in February 1918. Rationing was introduced in response to an effective U-boat campaign and during World War One

Recipe for a midsummer hotpot
Wartime recipe, incorporating a multitude of vegetables along with bacon scaps and cheese

Different ways of dealing with the scarcity of oil
Illustration by W. Heath Robinson. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Shortage of Labour during WWI
Depicting the problem of manpower shortage on the home front during World War One. A householder finds it impossible to get an odd job man to fix a dripping tap. They re all off fighting the war

Racecourse Plowed
The authorities take the food shortage seriously - just how seriously is evidenced by the plowing up of this racecourse near Petrograd so that crops can be planted there

Sven Hedin to Tibet - 4
Apart from water shortage, the expedition is plagued by severe sandstorms as it crosses the Gobi Desert. Date: 1899-1900

Boulevard Orator
An orator of the boulevard - there is never a shortage of patriotic citizens ready to address their fellows whether on the sidewalks or in cafes

Crowded Trains
Due to shortage of materials and fuel, trains are so overcrowded that even their roofs are laden with passengers

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

Food Shortage / 1919
Children clamour for food in Munich during the severe economic crisis that followed the First World War

Coal Shortage / Germany
Coal Shortage

Housing Shortage / 1922
Housing shortage - a former largerkeller becomes a home with cardboard windows

Germany / Shortage / 1922
Hamsterfahrten - foraging journeys into the countryside made by city dwellers

Food Shortage Germany
The police provide protection for the state butter merchant during a food shortage

Wwi / Food Shortage
Oh, if his mother could see him! Two Parisian children look at a poster showing a young boy wasting food

World War One Letters
No wonder theres a paper shortage : she, at home, writes prolifically to him, he at the front writes no less prolifically in reply, while a fountain of ink splashes !

Shortage of Flesh
- They are starting to run short of meat in Germany ( Carne means both meat and flesh )

Water Supply for London
There may be a shortage of clean water in London, but theres no shortage of plans for what should be done about it : the trouble is, they are all different !

Bread Riots in Paris
LA GUERRE DES FARINES When grain crops are hit by disease, it leads to a bread shortage which in turn leads to rioting in Paris and other cities

Food Shortage 1870
Even the animals from the Zoo must queue for their food just like the rest of us Parisians

Paris Bread Shortage
Paris housewives queue at the door of a boulangerie, during a bread shortage which causes fierce rioting and upsets the government Date: November 1794

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