The landlady of the local chalks up a message no man wants to see Sold Out No Beer. In the summer of 1946 there was a shortage of beer across the...
Butcher painting a meat registration notice on the window of his shop: 'Register Here Now And Be Sure Of A Good Supply Of Meat'.
Customer examines a clothes rack collection of women's utility wear suits in a clothing store as shortage of clothing materials and labour due to...
Crowd of children rush to get into a sweetshop in north Acton as it opens its doors on the day sweet rationing ended.
Hungry housewives bring their ration books to London's Petticoat Lane Market during World War II on the first day of bread rationing.
London shopkeeper puts up a sign announcing the new price of sugar as revealed in the Budget, 27th September 1939. The price has risen by a penny a...
Women serving children meals in communal kitchens, WWI. Photograph republished during the Second World War. 'The Government, in order to avoid waste,...
Indian men, women and children line up outside the Fair Price Shop with their ration cards to receive portions of wheat, sugar, kerosene and rice...
Queues forming outside a bakery in Streatham High Street, London, on the last day before bread rationing is introduced.
Boys in postwar Berlin are served a ration of gruel in the playground of their school in the Charlottenburg district. The rations are provided by the...
Line of People at Rationing Board, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, John Vachon for U.S. Office of War Information, March 1943
Birmingham Blitz 1940 People buying rationed goods from the back of van parked in the Midland Red bus station at Pool Meadow, Coventry. 18th November...
Shoppers queue for their fish in Eltham. This particular shopkeeper has posted a notice that only local people will be served and identity cards...
Long line of people queuing for their new ration card books along the street outside Caxton Hall National Registration Office on 10th January 1940 in...
British ration books from 1941 and 1948. Rationing lasted for 14 years from 1940 until 1954, far longer than World War II itself.
British ration books from 1941 and 1948. Rationing lasted for 14 years from 1940 until 1954, far longer than World War II itself.
London housewife places her butter rations into her basket while the grocer snips out the corresponding coupon from the ration book.
Miss I Maguire of the Tottenham Food Office distributes ration books to local housewives from a new mobile office, parked on White Hart Lane, London.
An eager school boy gets his first experience in using War Ration Book Two. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the...
Queue of women outside a dairy shop, in German-occupied Paris, 28 June 1940. Shortages and rationing were part of everyday life for Parisians during...
Indian men and women line up outside the Fair Price Shop with their ration cards to receive portions of wheat, sugar, kerosene and rice from the...
During World War II, a wife and mother presents her ration book to the butcher behind the counter of a deli, Hyde Park, New York, 1943. .
Two women buy rationed sugar from a grocery clerk using their War Coupons in Chicago during World War Two.
British ration books from 1941 and 1948. Rationing lasted for 14 years from 1940 until 1954, far longer than World War II itself
In the first week of rationing in WW II a housewife hands over her ration books to a grocer before buying food.
Shop assistant in a butcher's shop in south London cuts a coupon out of a customer's ration book on the first day of rationing in Britain.
Smiling female store clerk stands next to a sign supporting government-controlled prices during World War II. The sign is on top of a stack of coffee...
Second World War , The Allies spread food between Greek population with ration card, March 1940, Athens, Greece.
Line of people waiting to buy coffee shortly before coffee joined the list of items rationed, at a store on West 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York...
People queuing up outside a confectionary shop after sweets came off the ration following World War Two. December 1952.
Women evactuated from the bombing in London queue in line to buy fresh vegetables from a box stall on 15th April 1941 at a farm shop in Bishops...
Parisians lining up in front of a bakery because of rationing. This was before bread cards were reestablished on January 1, 1946. One can see on the...
Finger Pointing to "Point Values for Ounces" Information Card for Rationed Food Items during World War II, Alfred T. Palmer for Office of War...
Tomatoes at Covent Garden 10th June 1942. Queue of retailers waiting for tomatoes at one of the 10 depots that are selling them. Some of the...
Poster entitled 'Sucker! If You Pay Over Ceiling Prices' depicts one hand as it passes a five-dollar bill to another under a cut of meat on a wooden...
War and Conflict, Post World War Two, Great Britain, Rationing, pic: 1949, A scene in a sweet shop at the end of rationing with the shopkeeper,...
Radhe Shaym measures ten kilograms of wheat for a woman at the Laxmi Bai Fair Price Shop, where the government distributes wheat, sugar, kerosene and...
