Tin Can Collection

Corner of one-room cabin belonging to farmer... Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939
Corner of one-room cabin belonging to farmer starting in cut-over area. Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho

Possibly: Corner of one-room cabin belonging to farmer... Priest River Valley, Idaho, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Corner of one-room cabin belonging to farmer starting in cut-over area. Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho]

Negro sharecropper house on dirt, near Olive Hill, North Carolina, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Negro sharecropper house on dirt. Dirt log cabin on right is much older than attached frame cabin on left. Both have halfstones. Note dog run and flowering plants in tin can and tubs

Toleware Canister, c. 1941. Creator: Lelah Nelson
Toleware Canister, c. 1941

Oyster can used by H. B. Kennerly & Son, Inc. 1935-1950. Creator: Unknown
An eight ounce tin can for the Maryland House brand of oysters distributed by H. B. Kennerly & Son, Inc. The can is white with red and black text

Batchelors Garden Peas tin, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Batchelors Garden Peas tin, 1963. A product image from 1963 showing the tin and label of the time

Batchelors Peas tin, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Batchelors Peas tin, 1963. A product image from 1963 showing the tin and label of the time, with the simple slogan Taste how sweet!

Shopkeeper unpacking canned gammon joints, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1963. Artist
Shopkeeper unpacking canned gammon joints, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1963. The meat has just been imported from Denmark by the Danish Bacon Company

Dairy Farm tinned Irish Stew, 1968. Artist: Michael Walters
Dairy Farm tinned Irish Stew, 1968

Making bombs out of tin cans in Gallipoli, 1915. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War Vol. III - 1915.. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1915]

Advert for Smedleys tinned fruit, 1936. A print from Tit-Bits, summer, 1936

Tinsmiths in a tinsmiths shop, India, 1922. Artist: R Gorbold
Tinsmiths in a tinsmiths shop, India, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume IV: Georgia to Italy

The Workers Lunch, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
The Workers Lunch, 1891. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 18th April 1891

The Camp of the Foreign Legion, Ain Fritissa, Morocco, 20th century. French postcard

Food store in occupied Paris, c1941(?)

Filling and soldering cans of food, France, c1870. Canning as a method of food preservation originated in the first half of the 19th century

Ha, Ha! You Must Learn to Love Me, 1873. Cartoon from Punch London 1873, telling the British public that they must learn to love canned meat from Australia

A legionnaire, 1832-1835

Trade card for tinned Frankfurters produced by Heinrich Bauer of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, c1895
Obverse of trade card for tinned Frankfurters produced by Heinrich Bauer of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, c1895

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