Historical Market Scenes

Black and white photos capturing historical food markets and dining settings, showcasing traditional eating and cooking practices.

San Francisco, California: c. 1890 A Chinese fruit peddler in Chinatown.

In Italian bakery

Before winter sets in Mormon families are well supplied with canned goods and flour. Santa Clara, Utah 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Utah , Santa Clara, Utah , Washington County

D.D. Collins meat stands (Stands 94 and 95) at the O Street Market located in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. ca. 1915.

The April Fair of 1979 began as soon as the municipal Corporation took office after voting in the elections on the 3rd of that same month. That Fair was called the Lettuce Fair because of how shabby, coarse and dirty it was. That year's Fair was as night and day away from what it had become and what it is now. In the image, a street stall selling lettuce and sandwiches without the minimum hygienic conditions being contemplated. Note the bowl and the container for the lollipops. (Photo Ruesga Bono).

In the potato land. I potatislandet.

Selling bread & sausages in Vienna Austria ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Picking hops, Yakima County, Washington. Workers were paid this year two and a half to four cents per pound. This man said he could pick one hundred pounds a day 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima County

Cabbages and Prima Donnas- Life in Wartime Covent Garden, London, England, 1940 Mr George W Wooderson, (father of Sidney Wooderson, once holder of the world mile record), at work in Covent Garden market. Here we see him discussing baskets of potatoes or apples with a porter.

Travel photos. Market scene (maybe in Egypt). Vegetable and fruit trader

Communal food bank in Republican Spain, during the Spanish Civil War

Lots are cooking..

Outdoor Cooking. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Rue Sainte-Opportune (Produce Display, rue Sainte-Opportune). Eugène Atget (French, 1857 - 1927)

Warung with displayed food on the table in the interior of Java., 1900 - 1935 photograph. stereograph Malang (possibly) paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print

Cooking. May 08, 1952.

The Ice Cream Dive Is On. It is the ice cream hour on a Coast Guard-manned transport moving out of the dangers of the Indian Ocean to a haven of safety. A line of little Polish war fugitives moves toward the big ice cream pails, where Coast Guardsmen pack their cups heavy with the kids' favorite dish. It is their first ice cream in a year and half and that is a long time between ice cream. The children are being transferred from Bombay, India.

Rehabilitation client and wife with one day's tomato pick off coast of Beaufort, South Carolina. An African American family standing under a tree next to the containers full of tomatoes, June 1936.. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. South Carolina, Containers, African American families, African American farmers, Beaufort (S.C.), Tomatoes

Travel photos South America. Market stand with banana trees

Displaying food for the Salvation Army Harvest Festival in Wealdstone, HebbleWhite, c. 1920 - c. 1930 photograph Wealdstone photographic support gelatin silver print giving food. interior ~ representation of a building. charitable works

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Field bakery. Baskets with vegetables, fruit and herbs. March 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Boy Scouts Pick Fruit For Jam- Life on a Fruit-picking Camp Near Cambridge, England, UK, 1943 Boy Scouts empty their baskets of plums into the large bushel-baskets of the jam manufacturer in the sunshine at a fruit-picking camp near Cambridge. The contents of their picking baskets had previously been weighed and the amounts recorded in a ledger.

Nuts and dried fruit are plentiful with dried peaches at 40 cents per hundred grams (in centre). July 01,1946.

Vintage Photograph. Off to market with a load of fancy tomatoes.

Bucharest, the Christmas roast is prepared, taken on 23.12.1916.

Canned fruits and vegetables in Edward Chapman's cellar, Northome, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , Northome, Minnesota , Koochiching County

Marketing produce: Run jointly by Jr. & Sr. Centr. Div., Des Moines, September 1918

Delivery cakes still made this rounds in some suburbs Rouseholders living allowed normal purchases. April 23, 1945. (Photo by C. Mail).

Interior of a grocery store showing the cheese and dairy counter. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

"Food." Southern California Food of migrant workers. Southern California. Photographs. 1935-04. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Migrant laborers, Food

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Elsevier photo collection. Meicenkeneraprup started Betuwe. picked cherries thoroughly sorted. undated. Betuwe

Anefo photo collection. Cheese carriers on cheese market in Alkmaar. April 22, 1966. Alkmaar, Noord-Holland

vecchi mestieri, venditore gobbo di ciambelle dolci, 1890-1900

Why Irish eyes are smiling: food galore in Dublin's Fair city.Peppermint humbugs, toffees, acid drops or chocolates! A well-stocked Dublin sweet shop, where customers can buy whatever they like.Tender, delicious cream-fed veal, spring lamb and beef always in stock: a butcher's shop in Dublin, where cross-channel visitors are invited to buy meat parcels to take home with them.Eggs galore, and all new laid ! A sight to mark the British housewife whoRegretting the lack of dried eggs-sigh enviously.A sight to stir the heart of every Englishman : hams and Morf hams in the arms of a Dublin shop assistant. December 31, 1949. (Photo by The Illustrated London News).

Anefo photo collection. Vegetable and fruit exhibition Amato, opened by Minister Marijnen. October 13, 1959

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage on the island of Bangka and the town of Pangkal Pinang. Stall with fruits. January 1947. Banka, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

First Picking - Summer Squash - Soldier Creek. 1900 - 1960.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Banquet in a nomadic camp in the Adrar region. In the foreground trays with roasted rams stuffed with rice and raisins.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Dadapajam at Salatiga. Salatiga. If the patrol will come home soon, there are a lot of hungry stomachs to fill, especially if pancakes are on the menu. The Koks Cees knegt from Hilversum, Jo van Klinken from Nieuwerkerk and Henk Maas from high wood behind the fires of their field kitchen. October 12, 1947. Dadapajam, Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

need a drink

People eating. People eating

Klarahallen, Salutorg. Sales of fruit, vegetables and flowers

Wine and spirits store in Germany

Anefo photo collection. Old-fashioned Keuenmarkt on the pig market in Amersfoort. August 7, 1959

The Utrechtsche Vegetable and Fruit Auction .../ and now just drive ... An advantage if you have good lungs and you can put a big throat. Into the city - on hope of blessing.

Basketfull of pecans, San Angelo, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

"Desert Gold".Seven-eights of the world's supply of Gum Arabic - used as the adhesive on postage stamps, envelopes, lables etc., as well as for medicinal purposes and certain types of confectionary - is produced in the Sudan where for- 200 years it has been the most important export. Only in the last 20 years has it boon topped by cotton as to Sudan's most valuable product. These pictures show various stages in the production of Gum Arabic called "Desert Gold" - for, from the making of incisions in the bark of the acacia tree to its marketing locally ready for transport -and shipment to various parts of the world, to the extent of 15-20 thousand tons annually, it is valued at nearly one million pounds sterling. September 01, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Pounding rice for rice cakes, c. 1900, Japan, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Asia

01/01/1932. Ukraine. Holodomor. photographs of hunger.

1950s 1960s ROWS OF JELLIES FRUITS VEGETABLES AND MISCELLANEOUS FOOD ITEMS ON DISPLAY TO BE JUDGED AT COUNTY FAIR USA

Grocery. Kusakabe Kimbei (Japanese, 1841 - 1934)

Cocoa fruits, Suriname; Colony Suriname images concerning cultural crops, plantations, gold fields, qualics etc ...

Jaffa orange culture. Packing oranges 1900, Israel, Tel Aviv

For a bottle Chianti.1.11.17. .

Vintage Photograph. Farmers market at corner of Merrick Road and Hicksville road in Massapequa Long Island New York.

Mexican selling candy. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas, San Antonio (Tex.), Food vendors, Candy, Mexicans

Interior of a grocery store. Dressed poultry. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Lemons packing. sorrento. campania. Italy. 1957.

Photograph of interior lot 8, bl. 2257, Wholesale Bananas, 8 Wall. Mkt, G.V. base. Depicts interior room view of bananas hanging from ceiling.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Women to cook in Paramaribo. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

Anefo photo collection. Mn Merchant Navy / Anefo London series. Cooks Dutch merchant ship galley. June 1943. Britain, London

Paris. Etal of vegetables, Paris. Open market Discovered market. Etal of vegetables, Paris ". Anonymous photography. Gélatino-Chloride draw.

The Gardens of Kew- the work of Kew Gardens in Wartime, Surrey, England, UK, 1943 Mr Campbell (right), Curator of the Gardens, examines potato crops as they are lifted by a gardener. These potatoes have been grown experimentally, at the behest of the Ministry of Food, using a chip from a seed potato, rather than the whole thing. According to the original caption, crops using this method were better than those grown normally and 'seed prepared at Kew is flown to Malta, Cyprus and Palestine to replace supplies cut off by war'.

Soldiers at Camp MacArthur in Waco, Texas enjoy a plentiful Christmas dinner consisting largely of turkey. The photo, taken in 1918 by photographer C.P.I. Wasson, captures the festive atmosphere and abundance of food provided for the soldiers during World War I. This image was officially used for historical records.

Jaffa orange culture. 1898, Israel, Tel Aviv

But Not All bakeries were without bread. This was today's scene in ***** H. Stoman's shop, Highett Street, Richmond. Regular customers, and scores of others to whom the word had spread, crowded the shop. October 27, 1948.

Anefo photo collection. Breukelen poffertjes distribution. October 3, 1952. Breukelen

Chinese at breakfast, movable chow shop, Canton, Vintage Photography - USA

Tomatoes grown by homesteader. Westmoreland Homesteads, Pennsylvania 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Tuscan wines. 1920-1930.

Camping and Picnicking - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Anefo photo collection. Cheese carrier guild. September 23, 1946

Original caption: "Soboba - Showing a portion of the farm of Petra Arrietta at Soboba. Corn in the background, alfalfa to the left and beans and other garden produce to the left.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Owner of general store slicing balogna. Jarreau, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Jarreau

Greece. Corfu. Dressing Easter lamb , Sheep, Slaughtering, Holidays, Easter. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Anefo photo collection. Army Army Anefo London series. Army 555 Counter Soldiers' Canteen. Canteen recreation Dutch army camp Wolverhampton. bar soldiers canteen. December 1941. Britain

Display of candy and fruits at retail grocery. San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the Royal Visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Rietje with an implied cooking place on the whale of the Fuikbaai. October 1955. Curaçao

Poll photo collection. Hohenloher country. German oranges at a shop in Bad Mergentheim. 1954. Bad Mergentheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, West Germany

Karoun. Fish shop..

Dutch CheeseA general view of the market at Alkmaar in North Holland; the market is held every Friday, and cheeses are brought in from the surrounding factories and cheese farms; only the very best are exported. April 13, 1951. (Photo by Violet Northcott, Camera Press).

Albumin photograph by August Kotzsch around 1870 depicting pears, showing fruit arrangement and texture.

Shucking oysters, Bivalve, New Jersey 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Customers at an early 20th century meat market ca. between 1910 and 1920.

Owner of general store slicing balogna. Jarreau, Louisiana. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Jarreau

Warm food for Utrecht bourgeoisie

Carrots and Onions at Great Walker Day School. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs

Krylbo central kitchen.

Vendeur de fruits - Πλανώδιος πωλητής , Food vendors, Fruit industry, Donkeys. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Migrant worker cooking meal over campfire, Edinburg, by Russell Lee, 1903-1986, photographer Published: 19390101 Feb.

A man who bakes fish on the street, exhibition Oud-Holland in 1897, Amsterdam, Netherlands.A Man Who Bakes Fish on the Street, Exhibition Oud-Holland in 1897, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Wrapping grapefruit in packing process. Weslaco, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Weslaco, Texas , Hidalgo County

Description: Members of the Mission examing young coffee plants at the Santa Coffee Estate Bamenda. 1955 Report Location: Bamenda, Nigeria Date: 1955 africa

In the fruit market. Bananas and pineapples, 1936, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Description: Mooncakes for Apollo Astronauts. Mooncakes by the thousands. Location: Hong Kong Date: 1969

Europe, Italy, Calabria, Scilla, lemon harvest, 1920-30.

alcohol wine wine festival in Paris 1930s,

How Bridget served tomatoes undressed , Eating & drinking, Servants

Fish Store

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