Brooms Collection

Scottish Curling 1912
An exciting finish to a curling match in Scotland

Scottish Curling 1885
Soop her up! Two Scottish curlers brush vigourously to melt the top of the ice, and allow the curling stone to slide correctly

Curling in Scotland 1869
A curling match in Scotland

Craftsmen making besom brooms and wooden rakes
Two craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Craftsmen make besom brooms and wooden rakes
Two craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Broom vendor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Broom vendor in a street of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Date: 1922

The Brush Salesman. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Vendor of pots and brooms, Japan, circa 1870s. Date: circa 1870s

Elegant Broom Seller
Buy a broom!; an elegant broom seller passes the window of a house. Date: 1878

PARISIAN BROOM SELLER
A Parisian broom seller Date: 1774

SELLING BROOMS
Selling brooms and other household articles outside Shoreditch Church, London Date: circa 1800

The Butter, Brooms and Basket Market, Bayeux, France
The Butter, Brooms and Basket Market, Bayeux, Normandy, France. Date: circa 1910s

Sweeping brush with comic verse on a Christmas card
Sweeping brush with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Sweeping brush with comic verse on a Christmas card
Sweeping brush sticking out of a window with comic verse on a Christmas card -- Where I hang out. Date: circa 1890s

Firefighters and winter snows, WW2
The early winters of the Second World War were snowy with numerous falls of one or two feet and occasional falls (such as in 1940-1941) in which snow depths of up to 16 feet (drifts) were recorded

Brushmaking, Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, London
Boys making brooms and brushes at Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, East London Date: circa 1905

Popular types. Sellers of brooms. Valencia. Spain. Colored engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration (1872)

Household Articles
A broom-seller and a vendor of cooking pots Date: early 19th century

Variety of brooms and carpet sweepers 1929
A page from a 1929 catalogue showing a variety of brooms and lightweight carpet sweepers. Date: 1929

A selection of household brushes- from top to bottom: Bass Broom Heads; closet or lavatory brushes; Sweeps brushes; and Hearth brushes. Date: c. 1910

Broom and basket vendor, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Itinerant Russian Broom seller, with his wide selection of brushes, brooms, pipe cleaners and sundry additional cleaning paraphernalia of all shapes and sizes! Date: circa 1902

French soldiers cleaning their Barrack Yard. They all wear loose overalls over their uniforms (even the supervising officers) - dusty work! Date: 1906

Boys in Packing Room. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co. Evansville, Ind. Location: Evansville, Indiana. Date 1908 October

Hypnotist directing group of people to do unusual activities: woman playing washboard, woman riding man, men using brooms as musical instruments, policeman using sausage as weapon. Date 19 - ?

Hypnotist directing a group of people to do unusual things: men pretending to race while seated on man suspended between two chairs and audience volunteering for military duty with brooms as rifles

Brush salesman
A brush seller in Constantinople, Turkey

Mexican itinerant brush salesman, also a seller of mats, hand brooms and small bags

Buy a Broom
Selling brooms in the street

Making Brooms from Hazel
Making besoms - a particular type of broom - by splitting hazel, Penmach, Caernarvonshire, Wales

French Brush Seller
A French Brush seller with a wide variety of brushes for sale from small hand brushes to larger varieties for floors and chimneys

Swedish Broom Seller
A Swedish seller of broomheads

Brush Maker 1827
The brush maker making hair brushes, carpet brooms and mops. He also makes wooden coal hods and measures for coal and corn

Mat & Broom Seller 1804
Buy a mat or a hair broom; a street vendor plys his trade

Parisian Broom Seller
A Parisian street seller offers brushes and brooms

Game / Winter / Snowman 19C
Five children construct a snowman with brooms and spades Date: circa 1880

Elegant Broom Seller
Buy a broom!; an elegant broom seller passes the window of a house

London / Cries / Broom-Man
The broom-man sells brush and hair brooms for carpets and rooms

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