Apron Collection (#24)

Maid Admitting Visitor
A pretty maid, sporting a fashionable hair style of the day, looks coyly at a male visitor who is calling on her mistress

Restaurant Kitchen
A scene in a busy restaurant kitchen

Racial Types Fiji 19C
Two men of Fiji

Grecian Bend 1868
Grecian Bend: Walking dress of short skirt with single flounce & an over-skirt looped up the sides to produce an apron front & puffed out behind. Ruched trim is used

Couple on Horse 1886
Going to the Fair: A middle-aged couple are off to the fair on their old grey mare, and promise the children gingerbread, toys, ribbons, and colourful waistcoats

Preparing the Haggis
A Scottish woman prepares a haggis

Two women potting plants
Two women learning the skill of potting plants

Woman in kitchen, breaking egg
A woman in her kitchen, breaking an egg

Female operator, Howe Bridge, Lancashire
Female operator wiping the flyers in the old section of the Cardroom at Howe Bridge Cotton Spinning Co. Atherton, Lancashire

Cooking Puff Pastry
A woman makes various things out of puff pastry

Baileys Grocery Store and shopkeeper
Baileys Grocery Store and the proud shopkeeper, assessing the weeks window display. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Costume / Women / Eng Merch
An English shopkeeper in white apron, brown cloak and hat, carrying her basket

Woman Mixes in Bowl 1886
She mixes something in a bowl

Peas / Cries of London
A woman fills her apron with green and young hastings (peas) bought from a street vendor

Transport / By Horse / Stage
Coaches were generally made of tough ash wood, with mahogany panels and leather upper parts; the finest made coaches commanded the best wages

The Brazier 1827
A brazier hammers kettles, pans, candlesticks and other utensils from brass, a metal which is compounded from copper and zinc

Book Binder 1827
A book binder using a vice to compress his books. Other books are in a large press behind him and pots of glue and tools are at his feet

BAKER 1827
A baker kneading dough. He wears an apron and there is a bundle of sticks of firewood (for the kiln) beside him

French Goose Girl
A young girl in an apron watches over her geese

Louie Freear / 1903
LOUIE FREEAR Actress, in The Lady Slavey

Norwegian Costume
A young woman poses for a studio photograph wearing her regional costume. Rustic props add interest

London Workmen / Dore
London workmen

Wigan Colliery Girls
Two Wigan colliery girls

Paris Butcher Shop / 1905
A Paris butcher stands in his shop doorway

ADVERT MOP
O-Cedar Polish Mop - cleans as it polishes

Portly Woman Adds Beans
A portly woman adds beans to a casserole. Date: 1930s

Handbag Manufacture
A scene in the workrooms of a large handbag factory where womens handbags of exclusive design for the coming season are being turned out in their hundreds

GUY FAWKES
A man puts the finishing touches to a rather garish Guy, for a London hospital

Woman Reads in Lace Hat
A romance of byegone times. A woman wearing a lace hat and white apron sits down to read a novel

Women Winding Yarn 1920
Women winding yarn at J & P Coats, Paisley

Costume June 1870
Dresses comprised of an under- skirt, upper-skirt with apron front & jacket bodice with basques deep enough to form an over-skirt. Girl: tunic with pointed hem & waistband

COSTUME 1837-8 / LEECH
A working girl imitates the genteel accomplishments of young ladies. Her dress is low cut with puffed sleeves & is worn with a coarse apron. Both women wear pattens

Queueing for Soup 1877
Queueing for leg of beef soup at 2 pence a bowl outside working class dining room

Lady Sits at Easel 1848
Grey: corsage with wrap over front, ruched trim on the pocket & false apron. Pink: loose sleeves, corsage up to the throat & 4 horizontal rows of embroidery on the skirt

1834 Arty Clothes
Man: grey cossacks, fitted jacket, red fringed sash & gothic style slippers. Woman: white dress, imbecile sleeves encased below the elbow, brown bodice & vandyked apron

One Stove, Two Cooks
One stove, two cooks

Girl with her Doll / Photo
A little girl with her doll stands on an ornate velvet chair to have a photograph taken at an Electric & Daylight studio

Working Class Boy 1860S
A working boy wears a felt hat, lightweight jacket in a coarse fabric, trousers, boots & a coarse apron

Delivery Boy Costume
Boy carrying a basket: boots, trousers, light coloured shirt style jacket in a coarse fabric, white collar & narrow bowtie, apron, quartered cap. A knife hangs from his belt

Costume / Baby C. 1900
A baby in long clothes & an elaborate high lacy bonnet has its photograph taken with its nurse maid who wears a short cape, square shaped headgear & apron with a scalloped edge

Costume / Bib-Apron C. 1880
A small child possibly a boy wears a window-pane check frock, plaid bows on the shoulders, broderie Anglaise bib-apron, stockings & shoes with 2 bars over the instep

Girl Cuts Pie Edge 1890
A little girl neatly cuts excess pastry from the edge of a pie

Old Bell Maker
Albert Barber, bell maker, swings on a large bell, which is dated 1616

BON GENRE NO. 20 C. 1805
Une soiree de Coblentz - French emigres flee France, and take refuge in Coblentz just across the German border, where they wait for the Revolution to blow over

Social / Girl & Horse 19C
A girl and a horse in a field

Costume / Basket Seller
A London basket seller in a plain brown dress with white apron, a red scarf or shawl wrapped over her shoulders & a cotton bonnet

Girl Picking Berries
A girl in a white bonnet and apron picking blackberries

Mother Feeding Baby 19C
A mother feeds her baby, who has almost grown to toddler size

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