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"Canteen: A Journey Through Time and Service" From the dusty battlefields of the Civil War to the bustling streets of London during World War II

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross canteen worker in Ancona, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Red Cross canteen worker in Ancona, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Red Cross canteen worker in Ancona, between c1915 and 1918. A Red Cross soup kitchen serving soup at a train station in Ancona, Italy during World War I

Background imageCanteen Collection: Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service

Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Soldiers and women playing instruments in the Columbia University Gould Boathouse, 115th and Riverside Drive, New York City

Background imageCanteen Collection: Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service

Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Soldiers seated around a table in the Columbia University Gould Boathouse, 115th and Riverside Drive, New York City

Background imageCanteen Collection: [Barnard Canteen], 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service

[Barnard Canteen], 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
[Barnard Canteen], 1918 or 1919. Women preparing food in the Columbia University Gould Boathouse, 115th and Riverside Drive, New York City

Background imageCanteen Collection: German Kitchen taken by French, 29 Oct 1914. Creator: Bain News Service

German Kitchen taken by French, 29 Oct 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
German Kitchen taken by French, 29 Oct 1914 (date created or published later). A horse-drawn German field kitchen at Compie`gne, France

Background imageCanteen Collection: French troops drinking water on march, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

French troops drinking water on march, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
French troops drinking water on march, between c1914 and c1915. French soldiers during early days of World War I

Background imageCanteen Collection: French soldiers eating soup on march, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service

French soldiers eating soup on march, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
French soldiers eating soup on march, between c1914 and c1915. French soldiers eating in the field during World War I

Background imageCanteen Collection: American Prison Life, Blackwell's Island, New York: Dinner-Time, 1876. Creator: Unknown

American Prison Life, Blackwell's Island, New York: Dinner-Time, 1876. Creator: Unknown
American Prison Life, Blackwell's Island, New York: Dinner-Time, 1876. Convicts complying with a...regulation to be observed after the dismissal of the guests from that monotonous repast

Background imageCanteen Collection: American Sketches: Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York - Dining-Room, 1876. Creator: Unknown

American Sketches: Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York - Dining-Room, 1876. Creator: Unknown
American Sketches: Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York - Dining-Room, 1876. Blackwell's Island is the locality of several different institutions, besides the House of Correction

Background imageCanteen Collection: American Prison Life, Blackwell's Island, New York: Dinner-Time, 1876. Creator: Unknown

American Prison Life, Blackwell's Island, New York: Dinner-Time, 1876. Creator: Unknown
American Prison Life, Blackwell's Island, New York: Dinner-Time, 1876....the inmates, who are here treated with compulsory hospitality

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross: Fayetteville, N.C. Canteen Service, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Red Cross: Fayetteville, N.C. Canteen Service, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Red Cross: Fayetteville, N.C. Canteen Service, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross: A.R.C. Canteen, S.E. Penna. Chapter, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Red Cross: A.R.C. Canteen, S.E. Penna. Chapter, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross: A.R.C
Red Cross: A.R.C. Canteen, S.E. Penna. Chapter, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross: Canteen Station, Bristol, Va.-Tenn, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Red Cross: Canteen Station, Bristol, Va.-Tenn, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Red Cross: Canteen Station, Bristol, Va.-Tenn, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: U.S. Food Administration, between 1917 and 1919. Creator: Harris & Ewing. U.S

U.S. Food Administration, between 1917 and 1919. Creator: Harris & Ewing. U.S
U.S. Food Administration, between 1917 and 1919. Group portrait of women in uniform. The United States Food Administration (1917-1920)

Background imageCanteen Collection: U.S. Food Administration, between 1917 and 1919. Creator: Harris & Ewing. U.S

U.S. Food Administration, between 1917 and 1919. Creator: Harris & Ewing. U.S
U.S. Food Administration, between 1917 and 1919. Group portrait of women in uniform. The United States Food Administration (1917-1920)

Background imageCanteen Collection: Interior view of dining hall, decorated for the holidays, with students

Interior view of dining hall, decorated for the holidays, with students sitting at tables at the Tuskegee Institute, c1902. [Young African Americans share a meal at Christmas or Thanksgiving]

Background imageCanteen Collection: Red Cross: Mrs. Willard Matthews, Chairman Canteen Committee, Scranton, Penna

Red Cross: Mrs. Willard Matthews, Chairman Canteen Committee, Scranton, Penna, between 1910 and 1920

Background imageCanteen Collection: City canteen during the siege of Paris (1870-1871), c1870. Creator: Henri Pille

City canteen during the siege of Paris (1870-1871), c1870. Creator: Henri Pille
City canteen during the siege of Paris (1870-1871), c1870

Background imageCanteen Collection: Canteen, 1935/1942. Creator: A. Zimet

Canteen, 1935/1942. Creator: A. Zimet
Canteen, 1935/1942

Background imageCanteen Collection: Help the canteen manager!, 1835. Creator: Auguste Raffet

Help the canteen manager!, 1835. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Help the canteen manager!, 1835

Background imageCanteen Collection: Sea Scouts Serving at a Mobile Canteen, 1944. Creator: Unknown

Sea Scouts Serving at a Mobile Canteen, 1944. Creator: Unknown
Sea Scouts Serving at a Mobile Canteen, 1944. From "Boy Scouts, by E. E. Reynolds. [Collins, London, 1944]

Background imageCanteen Collection: Coryton Refinery cafeteria JLP01_067_26

Coryton Refinery cafeteria JLP01_067_26
CORYTON OIL REFINERY, THURROCK, ESSEX. Staff using the food counter at the newly built self-service cafeteria at Coryton Oil Refinery

Background imageCanteen Collection: Lettre G Generosite - Gendarme Grue Guepe Godets Giroflee Gourde Grenouille - Gravure in 'Alphabet

Lettre G Generosite - Gendarme Grue Guepe Godets Giroflee Gourde Grenouille - Gravure in "Alphabet des bons
DUV4212003 Lettre G Generosite - Gendarme Grue Guepe Godets Giroflee Gourde Grenouille - Gravure in "Alphabet des bons exemples" - Jules Levy, editeur - Illustrations de Henri Boulanger

Background imageCanteen Collection: Ceiling of the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)

Ceiling of the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)
8618147 Ceiling of the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo) by Domenech i Montaner, Luis (1849-1923); (add.info.: Reus)

Background imageCanteen Collection: Cantiniere

Cantiniere
3782867 Cantiniere; (add.info.: Cantiniere: 19th century Frenchwoman attached to military regiments, selling wine to the troops and working in canteens (also called vivandiere)'

Background imageCanteen Collection: Ceramics from the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)

Ceramics from the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)
8618124 Ceramics from the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo) by Domenech i Montaner, Luis (1849-1923); (add.info.: Reus)

Background imageCanteen Collection: The refectory, pavilion 6, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)

The refectory, pavilion 6, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)
8618122 The refectory, pavilion 6, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo) by Domenech i Montaner, Luis (1849-1923); (add.info.: Reus)

Background imageCanteen Collection: The refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)

The refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)
8618178 The refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo) by Domenech i Montaner, Luis (1849-1923); (add.info.: Reus)

Background imageCanteen Collection: Chandelier in the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)

Chandelier in the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo)
8618123 Chandelier in the refectory, Pere Mata Institute, Reus, 1897-1912 (photo) by Domenech i Montaner, Luis (1849-1923); (add.info.: Reus)

Background imageCanteen Collection: Vivandiere

Vivandiere
3782868 Vivandiere; (add.info.: Vivandiere: 19th century Frenchwoman attached to military regiments, selling wine to the troops and working in canteens (also called cantiniere')

Background imageCanteen Collection: Squadron of scouts in front of a Canadian tent

Squadron of scouts in front of a Canadian tent. Date of Photograph:1950-1960 ca

Background imageCanteen Collection: Fighting against the Boers in Weppener, South Africa. Stereoscopic photography

Fighting against the Boers in Weppener, South Africa. Stereoscopic photography South Africa Weppener. Date of Photograph:1901 ca

Background imageCanteen Collection: The French painters Gustave Boulanger and Thophile Poilpot in uniform; carte de visite

The French painters Gustave Boulanger and Thophile Poilpot in uniform; carte de visite France. Date of Photograph:1870

Background imageCanteen Collection: Mountain climbers in high mountain snow

Mountain climbers in high mountain snow Italy. Date of Photograph:1915-1920 ca

Background imageCanteen Collection: Full-length portrait of a soldier in field uniform; he has a back pack

Full-length portrait of a soldier in field uniform; he has a back pack, a flask and he is leaning on a rifle. Date of Photograph:1860-1870 ca

Background imageCanteen Collection: 'Bianchi' road-racing bicycle from circa 1930, with Vittoria 'Margherita' gears

"Bianchi" road-racing bicycle from circa 1930, with Vittoria "Margherita" gears, kept in the Genazzini Collection of Milan

Background imageCanteen Collection: Two miners on a work break

Two miners on a work break Europe. Date of Photograph:1965 ca

Background imageCanteen Collection: Male portrait with water bag, Egypt

Male portrait with water bag, Egypt Egypt. Date of Photograph:12-23/08//1931

Background imageCanteen Collection: WW2 - Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) Firemen, including (top right

WW2 - Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) Firemen, including (top right) George Arthur Roberts (1891-1970) - soldier (in WW1), Fireman, and Community Leader

Background imageCanteen Collection: Women workers at Cadbury factory, Bournville, Birmingham

Women workers at Cadbury factory, Bournville, Birmingham
Women workers at lunchtime at the Cadburys Cocoa and Chocolate Factory, Bournville, Birmingham. 1898

Background imageCanteen Collection: Mobile Canteen during World War Two. Liverpool, Merseyside

Mobile Canteen during World War Two. Liverpool, Merseyside. It is not known where this picture was taken, but the print stamp suggests Liverpool

Background imageCanteen Collection: One of the most up to date mobile canteens in the country

One of the most up to date mobile canteens in the country. The canteen aquired by The Liverpool Gas Company. It will be stationed Broadway

Background imageCanteen Collection: The cast of Coronation Street on set. Margot Bryant in the canteen

The cast of Coronation Street on set. Margot Bryant in the canteen. 16th April 1968



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"Canteen: A Journey Through Time and Service" From the dusty battlefields of the Civil War to the bustling streets of London during World War II, the canteen has been a symbol of respite and nourishment for those in service. In an iconic photograph, a Buffalo soldier quenches his thirst from his canteen, finding solace amidst chaos. The image captures the resilience and determination that defined Union soldiers during this tumultuous period. Fast forward to World War I, where Miss Flora Petersen selflessly served as a canteen-worker. Her dedication provided comfort to weary soldiers far from home, offering them a taste of familiarity amid the horrors of war. A captivating oil painting depicting Prince Philip overlooks a dining hall - an homage to his time spent at school. This regal presence reminds us that even royalty appreciates the simple pleasure found within these humble walls. Firefighters outside their trusty canteen van in Battersea showcase camaraderie while fueling up for their heroic endeavors. These brave individuals relied on this mobile kitchen not only for sustenance but also as a gathering place where stories were shared and bonds were forged. During World War II, firefighters took much-needed tea breaks outside their mobile kitchens - moments of respite amidst destruction. Nancy Lancaster and David Niven are captured in another snapshot enjoying refreshments together; proof that even amidst turmoil, connections can be formed over shared meals. The legacy continues with LFB firefighters taking well-deserved tea breaks throughout history - brief respites from battling flames while fostering unity among comrades. Trainee chefs in the 1930s hone their culinary skills within canteens' bustling kitchens - preparing themselves for future gastronomic adventures yet to come. Finally, we witness progress as Rubery Hill Hospital's new mess hall opens its doors in 1957. Ground floor filled with anticipation as patients eagerly await delicious meals prepared with care.