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Half penny dinners for poor children, East London 1870Dinners for children cost half a penny in this soup kitchen in East London. Date: 1870
Ragged School Union dinner 1900Interior of Ragged School Union in Camberwell, South London. Children sit at long tables eating soup from a bowl. Date: 1900
Soup kitchen, Limehouse 1860Food distribution at the Strangers Home, West India Dock Road, Limehouse, London. Date: 1860
TOMATO SOUP & TOAST TOMATO SOUP & TOASTA tempting arrangement of tomato soup and toasted soldiers for three, with matching soup bowls, spoons and serviettes. Date: 1960s
FRENCH SOUP KITCHENFrench down-and-outs queue for a bouchee du pain (mouthful of bread) in a Paris street. Date: 1895
DISTRIBUTING SOUP, PARIS 1709Distributing soup to the needy during the Paris food shortage caused by the freezing winter of 1709. Date: 1709
C17 COOKING SCENEPreparing foodstuffs of every kind - fowls are dressed, cows are milked, grapes are trod, soup is heated, bread and other items are carried by porters, biscuits are tasted Date: 17th century
Fund Committee in Coventry 1861Meeting with distressed ribbon weavers, Relief Fund Committee was held in the kitchen of St. Marys Hall, Coventry, due to the cotton famine. Date: 1861
Pleasures of PastaTHE HORRORS OF FOREIGN FOOD Water I do declare - with worms in it. (soup with vermicelli) Date: 1830
Alpine Dairy Herdsmen (Sennen) eat their evening mealTraditional Life in Switzerland - A group of Alpine Dairy Herdsmen (Sennen) take their evening meal of soup (or fondue) and bread outside a barn. Date: circa 1920s
Menu card, RMS Olympic, White Star Line, WW1Menu card, RMS Olympic, White Star Line, 17 November 1915. At this time the ship was being used to transport troops to Gallipoli. Date: 1915
Senegal - Thies Rebellion, Dieye & Fall complain about foodThe circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Thies rebellion remain obscure. An article at the time said that the rebellion began after the sentencing to 15 days in jail of Diery Fall
Oliver Twist asks for more - Charles DickensOliver Twist asks for more - from Oliver Tiwst by Charles Dickens. Date: circa 1910s
Force feeding a suffragette (cartoon)A cartoon depicting a suffragette being force fed in a prison cell. Two men, a prison warder and a doctor, hold the woman down with the help of a large weight (one hundredweight)
Donkeys in World War IDonkeys carrying soup to the front lines at Maurepas, Somme on the French front during World War I in October 1916
Advert for Gong soup 1916Advertisement for Gong soups, For men at the front and in training. Well-known and poplar product during the First World War, which could be parcelled from home for the soldiers at the front
In the Stretching Sheds of an Ox-Tail Soup Factory. War-Time Economies from William Heath Robinson including an ingenious idea for making the ingredients for oxtail soup go further. Date: 1918
Bulldogs Soup - I cannot eat it it smells of BocheLa Soupe de chien - J peux pas manger. 硠 sent le Boche. Dogs Soup - I cannot eat. it smells of Boche !. A kilted Scottish soldier and a French sailor
Lady Muriel Paget & children, WW1Lady Muriel Paget (1876 - 1938), nee Finch-Hatton, wife of Sir Richard Surtees Paget, second Baronet of Oldfallings Hall, Wolverhampton
Crosse and Blackwells soups advertisementAdvertisement for Crosse and Blackwells soup, depicting a bowl of steaming tomato soup. Date: 1929
Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - spilt soup. circa 1910s
History of Medicine. Modern Age. Carity Hospital. Engraving. 17th century. Colored
Philadelphia Soup KitThe clientele of a soup house in Philadelphis, PA : some come out, warmed with soup, while others queue for theirs. Date: 1875
Housewife W / Soup 1930A pretty young housewife carries a dish full of hot soup. Date: 1930
Food preparation in the 17th centuryPreparing foodstuffs of every kind - fowls are dressed, cows are milked, grapes are trod, soup is heated, bread and other items are carried by porters, biscuits are tasted Date: 17th century
German Monastic CharityA German monk distributes soup to the poor at the door of his partly ruined monastery Date: early 19th century
Eating soup at a market in Les Halles, ParisLes Halles, Paris - a warming bowl of soup... Date: 1897
Selling hot soup on a Russian streetA woman selling hot soup on a snowy street in Russia, with four customers gathered around. Date: circa 1920
Cartoon, Split Pea Soup, Valley Inn, California, USACartoon, Little Known Occupations, Splitting Peas for Split Pea Soup, advertising Andersens Valley Inn, Buellton, Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Date: circa 1940
BREADPain pour potage - French bread intended to be eaten with soup Date: circa 1870
Advert for Mappin & Webbs tableware tureens 1898Selection of late 19th century Prince plated, tureens. Date: 1898
Advert for Mappin & Webb tureens & flower stands 1905Terrecuite tureens to warm up food and one that can be used at the table for cooking and Prince plate arranged flutes for flowers for the table. Date: 1905
Three dogs eating their dinner on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous woman tastes some soup. Date: 1920s
Hungry Peter the pig drinking a toast in the soup, as everyone at the dinner party is teetotal! Date: 1914
Hungry Peter the pig putting sugar in the soupHungry Peter the pig accidentally putting castor sugar in the soup instead of pepper. Date: 1914
Cartoon, Pantagruels victorious return to the court of Gargantua, after extirpating the Soup Meagres of Bouille Land, by James Gillray
Carpet from the early 15th century depicting men and women riding horses outside a castle.. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes
South Africa - Soup Kitchen - Siege of Kimberley, KimberleySoup Kitchen - Siege of Kimberley, Kimberley, near Bloemfontein, Frances Baard, Northern Cape, South Africa. Showing Mr CJ Rhodes Date: 1900
WW1 - Eastern Front - Soup distributed to soldiers Date: circa 1917
Soldier carrying hot soup to trenches, World War OneThe hot soup man. Ensuring the food supply under fire: a British soldier carries a container of hot soup strapped to his back to the trenches in 1917 during the First World War
Spanish refugees in Gibraltar are given a meal of soup and bread by local boy scouts after crossing the frontier from Spain, 4 February 1965. Although Spanish-speaking, their passports are British
British troops in church billets in Flanders, WW1Just back from the trenches, British troops settle down in church billets during a service after a stretch of work in the first line on the Western Front
Heinzs Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USAHeinzs Pier, displaying the 57 varieties sign, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, with a crowd of people in the foreground
Real Turtle SoupAn 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
The Soup March. Robert Walker
Ruhleben Internment Camp, 1914-17 The Soup MarchRuhleben Internment Camp, 1914-17. The Soup March - dated 17.5.15. Robert Walker
Gong Soups advertisement, WW1Advertisement for Gong soups, the instant packet soup variety of choice during the First World War, both on the home front and in the trenches