Apron Collection (page 25)

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

A Log on the Fire / 1856
Putting a log on the fire

Quality Checking Coins
Quality checking new coins at the Royal Mint as they come off the conveyor belt, rejecting the badly made ones

Window Cleaning Girl
Georgina, replaces the male window cleaner whilst he is in the army during World War Two. She wears an apron, a ladder on her shoulder and a bucket over her capable arm

Dress with Apron
Costume with open jacket body, gored skirt with train & ornamented with self-coloured languette or tongue shaped flat trimmings & a gathered, lace edged apron with pockets

Newspaper Office 1930S
A busy newspaper office

Watering Bulbs Indoors
A young mother waters bulbs while her daughter watches

Garden Chat 19C
A young woman breaks from her gardening to chat with a neighbouring farmer who leans on the gate

GARDENERs DAUGHTER 1890
The Gardeners Daughter A girl tends flowers in an idyllic garden

Social / Britain Vicar 18C
A farmers wife wears a white gown & apron, black pelerine, shoes with pointed toes & vamps, a mob cap, straw hat & pink belt. Her son wears a smock & blue stockings

Girl Picks Flowers C1890
A pretty, rosy-cheeked young maid in a picturesque costume of black velvet dress & soft hat with pink plumes gathers daffodils (narcissi) in her clean white apron

Mixing in Saucepan
She mixes something in a saucepan

Food from the Larder
Two children help their mother fetch food from the larder

She Paints a Chair
She paints a chair

Polishing Furniture
She polishes a chest of drawers Date: 1923

Decorative Lanterns
A girl hangs chinese lanterns in a tasteful arrangement

Daughter Stirs
Mother watches as one of her daughters stirs something in a bowl, while her other daughter spoon in hand waits her turn and the kitten laps its milk

Dowry Chest
A bride-to-be shows off her DOWRY CHEST - linen for board and bed, for apron, bust, or head as her contribution to the future home

Child Clings to Mother
A toddler, perhaps learning to walk, steadies itself by clinging to its mothers skirt

LADIES CLUB - 2
Ladies in the dining room of their club... (2 of 2)

SHE DUSTS
She dusts a picture

Cook Stirring
She stirs

Girl with a Dishe
She carries the casserole she has just prepared and hopes that people will like it

Cooking from a Book
What does it mean, stir until thoroughly mixed to a cream- like consistency ?

Out of the Frying Pan
She has cooked them in a frying-pan, and now shes dishing them up. Whatever they are

Making Jam Tarts
She puts jam in the tart-cases before popping them into the oven

Reform Club Kitchen 1840
The kitchen staff at the Reform Club, London, where the kitchens were designed by Alexis Soyer

Electric Kitchen 1896
A woman cooking in an electric kitchen

Main Gas Cooker
Main gas cooker - mum has dads supper ready on time !

Costume May 1869
Girl: over-skirt with apron front, fringing & bows. Brown polonaise with train & sleeves with volans; white dress with pelerine cape, sash bow & over-skirt raised at the back

Reform Kitchen 1841
Soyers kitchen at the Reform Club, one of the notable London gentlemens clubs

Loizeau Stove
A French housewife enjoys cooking on her Loizeau stove

Carrying Flaming Pudding
Cook carries in the flaming pudding

Victorian Hatter 1867
A Victorian hat-maker at work

Mother Brings in Pudding
Mother brings in the pudding!

French Hotel Kitchen
A scene in a French hotel kitchen

Babies in a French nursery run by nuns
Babies in a French maternelle, a day nursery run by nuns

Futuristic floor polishing machine
A maid operates a futuristic automated electric floor polishing machine -- housework made easy

Futuristic visit by air cab
Paying a futuristic visit by air cab -- a lady is received by the concierge on the roof of an apartment building while the cab hovers alongside

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