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...
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...
Butcher painting a meat registration notice on the window of his shop: 'Register Here Now And Be Sure Of A Good Supply Of Meat'.
Crowd of children rush to get into a sweetshop in north Acton as it opens its doors on the day sweet rationing ended.
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...
Hungry housewives bring their ration books to London's Petticoat Lane Market during World War II on the first day of bread rationing.
Queues forming outside a bakery in Streatham High Street, London, on the last day before bread rationing is introduced.
Women serving children meals in communal kitchens, WWI. Photograph republished during the Second World War. 'The Government, in order to avoid waste,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Line of People at Rationing Board, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, John Vachon for U.S. Office of War Information, March 1943
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...
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...
London housewife places her butter rations into her basket while the grocer snips out the corresponding coupon from the ration book.
Two women buy rationed sugar from a grocery clerk using their War Coupons in Chicago during World War Two.
Second World War , The Allies spread food between Greek population with ration card, March 1940, Athens, Greece.
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,...
Contact sheet showing scenes at a sweet shop after rationing was ended in Britain after World War II, April 1953. Original publication: Picture Post...
People wait in line for their turn to register for and receive coupons for rationed goods during World War Two.
In the first week of rationing in WW II a housewife hands over her ration books to a grocer before buying food.
People queuing up hopefully for food in front of a grocery store in a French provincial town, during World War II.
End of rationing, meat and bacon on sale at the Barnsley Co-op butchers, South Yorkshire, 1954. In 1954, threstrictions on the sale of meat and bacon...
Queue of women outside a dairy shop, German-occupied Paris, 28 June 1940. Shortages and rationing were a feature of everyday life for Parisians...
On the eve of the implementation of food rationing visitors to a Manchester home are asked to bring their own sugar when they drop in for a cup of...
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.
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...
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.
Number of people crowd into a shoe store on the last day for War Ration shoe coupon 17. Washington, DC, June 1943.