Cleaner Collection (page 3)

C20 Backstreet Cleaner
Woman scrubbing outside house in backstreet. Date: circa 1915

Advert for H. W Garrard & Son domestic equipment 1889
Domestic machinery including a rotary knife - cleaning machine and a mincer machine. 1889

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

Paris - Le Boulevard Montmartre
Paris, France - Le Boulevard Montmartre - view of the crossing point (crossroads / carrefour) with Richelieu-Drouot. Note the fine view of the street washing and watering machine

Advert for Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner
A house-proud lady vacuums her home with the Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner. Date: 1917

Magnet Electric Cleaner Advert, 1927 Date: 1927

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Crackers dog show inventions (with the authors apologies to Heath Robinson). Smoothing the Scotch Collie, Pampering the Pom, and Improving the Kerry Blues Beard

Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, Maidenhead
Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, High Street, Maidenhead, with some amazing temporary reductions to three shillings and sixpence, and a four-day turnaround. Date: 20th century

Six girls on a Balham street, SW London
Six girls huddled together in front of a wooden fence on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boy and dog on a pavement, South London
Boy and dog on a pavement, Coldharbour Lane, South London, outside O Hughes tailors shop. Date: circa 1910s

San SebastiᮮFestival 2007. Samuel L. Jackson
JACKSON, Samuel L. (1948). American film actor. Posing for photographers, 27 September 2007, after the screening of his film Cleaner, during the 55th International Film Festival. SPAIN. Donostia

Women Window Cleaner WW1. Lady window cleaner with ladder and bucket says, I m letting sunshine into your houses, to brighten the outlook, now women wear Trowses. Date: circa 1918

Woman war-time window-cleaner, WW1
A girl window cleaner dressed in khaki jacket and trousers during the First World War. Date: 1915

No Objection Taken - womens war work, 1916
A page of sketches of mans work the men want the women to want, a humorous (and slightly chauvinistic) comment on the traditionally male jobs taken by women during the First World War. 1916

Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided

Wyandotte Sanitary Cleaner and Cleanser - for sale by all Grocers Date: 1910

Circus Cleaner
A poor cleaning lady, down on her hands and knees, scrubbing the floor at Olympia Circus, London. Date: 1930s

Advert for GEC Electric cleaner 1950
GEC Electric cleaner. 1950

TOY MONKEY
A toy monkey mascot, made from wire pipcleaners and wool. Date: early 1930s

Toy Cat Mascot
A toy cat mascot, made from wire pipecleaners and wool. Date: early 1930s

Toy Lion & Elephant
A toy elephant and lion, mascots, made from wire and wool, confronting one another. Date: early 1930s

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

Shoeblack & Cabby
Shoeblack polishing a Cabbys shoes. Date: circa 1910

Miss May Mitchell of Pontypridd, crankshaft polisher
Miss May Mitchell of Pontypridd, formerly a vacuum cleaner supervisor, polishes a crankshaft from a damaged engine at the BOAC Depot in South Wales in 1942. Date: 1942

Cleaners of the Sea
Plate 8 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Remora remora, remora
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Road cleaner
People You See. Road cleaner. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

Traffic light cleaner
People You See. Traffic light cleaner. From Teddy Bear (31 January 1970)

British Vacuum Cleaner
The British Vacuum Cleaner Date: 1913

Perils of Vacuum Cleaner
The perils of the vacuum cleaner Date: 1904

Changing Role of Women in the UK
The Girls reckon they can do anything without us men now-a-days - But can they? Interesting postcard highlighting the changing role of Women in the UK workplace in the early years of the twentieth

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mrs. Wiegel uses electric vacuum cleaner. Date 1942 June

E is the Ease for which she makes
Advertising for Punch Cleaner. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

U stands for Useful
Advertising for Punch Cleaner. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Crossword Craze - Distracted housemaid
The Crossword Craze What Lizzie was late with the lunch! A housemaid gets totally distracted trying to finish her crossword and completely forgets to do her cleaning or prepare the midday meal

Mrs Mop Sweeps Up
Good old Mrs Mop, always handy with a dustpan and brush! Date: 1960s

Street Cleaner
A road sweeper cleaning a London street. Date: early 1980s

Trendy Vacuum Cleaner
A Phillips vacuum cleaner in a trendy cream and brown design. Date: 1974

Coronation. The dustman makes progress
Outside the Queens entrance to the abbey, the west door, the dustman makes his way towards the main door. 1953

Sliding Cover Dust Truck
A sliding cover dust truck, presumably for a street cleaner, or for transporting rubble or industrial rubbish with a cover to prevent said dust blowing away in the wind

Urban Chicken
Why did the chicken cross the road? A cheeky chicken becomes the talk of the town. Date: 1930s

Advert for Gas for your home
When heat was master in the home the coal-eating kitchen range and household firres demanded much labour. There was dirt and smoke, waste and inconvenience. Now Heat is sevant

Vacuum Factory
American Vacuum Cleaning Co. Newark, New Jersey, America. Vacuum cleaner factory with workers and supervisors visible

Horse-drawn road sweeping machine
A marvellous photograph of a horse-drawn road sweeper, made by J. T Whittomb of Tavistock

Road sweeper with his cart
A road sweeper with his cart, containing various brushes and a spade. He probably works for the St Marylebone Borough Council in London

Road sweeper at work
A road sweeper sweeping dirt from the gutter, dwarfed by a huge curving brick wall. He probably works for the St Marylebone Borough Council in London

Collector of Dung - Constantinople, Turkey with his pony bearing two wicker panniers to hold the gathered refuse and a spade to pick it up with!

Electrolux advertisement
Advert for Electrolux vacuum cleaners, showing a woman opening her Christmas present and looking pleased or bemused that it is one of those new-fangled vacuum cleaners

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