1-150-815 - The Cartoon Collector/Heritage-Images

'A Crumb of Comfort', 1879. John Bull, the representative of the British people, in particular the British farmers, accepts a loaf of bread from America. This cartoon illustrates the appallingly unseasonable weather of the summer of 1879, which led to corn having to be imported from the United States. From Punch, or the London Charivari, September 6, 1879.