Slices Collection

Don t Waste Bread Wwi
Poster advising the public to eat less bread, and save two thick slices a day to defeat the U-boats during WWI. Thats a dangerous way to cut bread!

Cover design, Over 120 Ways of Using Bread for tasty and delightful dishes. Showing a woman in her kitchen, enjoying some of the results of her baking. Date: circa 1940s

Water Melon Seller, Cairo
A water melon seller with his laden donkey in a narrow Cairo street; baskets are lowered on ropes to collect slices of melon Date: 1912

Box label, Epicure Glace Orange Slices

Postcard booklet, four boys with watermelons, USA
Postcard booklet, four boys with watermelons, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Wheel of Tart Slices Date: 1935

Family Breakfast Scene Date: 1948

Cheese Tray Selection Date: 1948

Petrified Trees

Susi - with toaster and toast. Date: 1950s

PLAICE AND LEMON
A plate of plaice on a bed of lemon slices, garnished with parsley. Date: 1930s

ORANGE SQUEEZER
A glass orange or lemon squeezer and slices of fruit. Date: 1930s

ROAST PARSNIPS
Carefully buttering up large parsnip slices and adding salt and pepper before roasting them in the oven. Date: 1930s

ASPARAGUS SALAD
An intriguing salad combination - asparagus, slices of hard boiled egg and peas. Date: 1940s

TOMATO SANDWICHES
Dainty brown bread sandwiches with tomato slices on top of them Date: 1930s

17th century Butcher
A shop keeper - butcher or poulterer - brandishes a cleaver as he slices a joint into cutlets or whatever. Date: 17th century

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a cake, with Santa Claus standing in the middle and a removable slice on the right. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Two German boy scouts at camp with a pile of toasted bread between them

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a cake, with Santa Claus standing in the middle and a removable slice on the right. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Children and elderly lady at a street party
Children and an elderly lady at a street party, with a table full of food. Date: circa 1970s

Susi - with toaster and toast. 1950s

Greetings card in the shape of a slice of bread with cheese
Greetings card in the shape of a slice of white bread with piece of cheese on top. circa 1890s

Advert for toaster 1939
The " 8-30" toaster, designed to toast two slices of bread simultaneously, and with a flat top for keeping other delicacies warm. 1939

Handing round the 12th cake by Charles Robinson
Handing round slices of the Twelfth-cake, for the twelfth day of Christmas. Date: 1906

Man feeding sparrow in a Balham park, SW London
Man feeding bread to a sparrow in a Balham park, SW London. Date: circa 1960s

Fourth Earl Sandwich
JOHN MONTAGU fourth earl of SANDWICH, naval commander who spent 24 hours at the gaming table sustained by slices of beef placed between slices of bread... Date: 1718 - 1792

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

Repeating Pattern - Watermelons. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

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

World Famous Jack & Marion Skyscraper Sandwich
The World Famous Jack & Marion Skyscraper Sandwich. Date: circa 1930

Eating Watermelons - Hamilton, Bermuda
A group of native Bermudians eating freshly cut Watermelons - Hamilton, Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

New Year card in the shape of a wedge of cheese. Date: circa 1890s

ORANGES
Segments and slices of fresh oranges, temptingly displayed. Date: 1979

Dogs Birthday Party
One dog cuts slices of birthday cake for his doggy friends. Date: early 1930s

Runaway Skier
A runaway skier slices through the snow on a very steep incline! Date: 1930s

Wholemeal Loaf
Healthy wholemeal brown bread, temptingly cut into slices, on a wooden cutting board - very GOOD for you! Date: early 1980s

Concorde in Flight
Concorde slices through the sky above a snowy mountain range. Date: late 1960s

SKYLARK THREE (Dr Edward E Smith) The spaceship from Earth slices through the hostile craft from the planet Fenechrone Date: 1930

Bargeman eating a sandwich
A bargeman eating a large sandwich, four slices thick!

An assortment of slices, soup ladles and skimmers

Education, girls, cookery
A well equipped cookery class. One girl slices, some use mixing bowls, some are at the sink washing and drying. A selection of cakes cool on baking racks in the foreground

The King and Queen at the Windsor festivities
George III (1738-1820)and Queen Charlotte observing the roasting of an ox at Windsor, part of celebrations to mark the kings Diamond Jubilee in 1810

Stone Quarry France
A somewhat idealised quarry where the slate (french : ardoise) is cut out in neat slices and winched up to the surface

Greedy Boy Bismarck
John Bull, no slouch himself when it comes to helping himself, is shocked at Bismarcks greed as he slices off New Guinea for himself

Advert / Bread / Graphic Ww1
Poster issued by the Food Controller during World War One when German U-boats were severely reducing food supplies

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