Substitute Collection

Cookery Magazine 1917
A wartime issue of this popular cookery magazine - Splendid Flour Substitute recipes, Making the meat go round, the sugar shortage, How to save bread

Abol Hop Manure Advertisement
Advertisement promoting Abol Hop Manure, a good substitute for stable manure. Date: circa 1930

Advert, Goodall Backhouse & Co Ltd, Leeds
Advert, food products from Goodall Backhouse & Co Ltd, Leeds, Yorkshire, including egg substitute powder as eggs were scarce during the war. Date: 1942

Guy-ser Fawkes - the Kaiser caricatured, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II as a substitute for Guy Fawkes on the Fifth of November 1914. The Guy-sers were made by the toy department of the Womens Emergency Corps and were sold by a celebrated authoress

Goatskin shortages in 1915: humourous alternatives suggested
Hirsuitabilities: A humourous suggestion from Edwin Morrow in responce to the possibility of a shortage in supply of goat skins for soldiers winter overcoats. Date: 1915

Coal-gas powered delivery van of the Illustrated London News
An example of coal-gas powered vehicles during the First World War, this example being the delivery van of the Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd

Gas-powered transport by G. H. Davis
A substitute for petrol: internal combustion engines run on gas for road transport. Showing a bus with the plant on a trailer, and other types of converted vehicles

Allied marksmen firing at enemy aircraft in France, WW1
Some Autumn Sport, or the aeroplane as a substitute for the pheasant. Allied marksmen in France ready to fire at enemy aircraft (above), and a crumpled plane in a field (below). Date: September 1914

Bohemian Woman - Coumara Nut Seller - Istanbul, Turkey. Coumara nuts are the seeds of the Tonka Bean Tree, used in medicines, perfumes and (in Asia) as a substitute for Vanilla. Date: circa 1904

Ballooning celebration for Queen Victorias birthday
Front page of The Penny Satirist - A cheap substitute for a weekly Newspaper. Showing a large image of the Montgolfier balloon ascending from the Surrey Zoological Gardens with about ten people in

Cartoon - WWI Food Substitute Satire
Mummy duck says to baby duckling (closely examining a horseshoe): " Don t touch it dear, its a worm subsititute!" Date: circa 1915

Portrait of Christopher Pinchbeck
Undated head and shoulders mezzoprint portrait of Christopher Pinchbeck by Isaac Whood. Pinchbeck (c.1670 - November 18, 1732) was a London clockmaker and maker of musical Automata

The Civil War in America. Claiming exemption from the draugh
During the American Civil War, the rich could pay $300 or find a substitute willing to serve in the army in his place, the so-called rich mans law was used by many notable Americans

Training athletes before a game
Oxygen used as a substitute for training athletes. The gas is inhaled before a game or race and is believed to produce outstanding preformances

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