Cleaner Collection (page 4)

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

House of Lords cleaners
Two cleaners in the House of Lords, vacuuming and polishing in preparation for the State Opening of Parliament in a few days time

Gas Council advertisement 1954
Advertisement by the Gas Council stressing that the gas industry makes the best use of the nations coal, allowing busy housewives the luxury of instant hot water with Mr Therms Sink Water-heaters

How to Brighten Hotel Life: Preventing the Bathroom Boredom
Maid and shoe cleaner dancing to entertain the guests who are waiting to use the bathroom. One of a series specially drawn for The Sketch by Joyce Dennys

A sweeper - India
A sweeper calls. Indian man wearing turban carrying traditional basket and hand broom

Advert Vacuum Cleaner
Advert for the housewife for christmas! Western Electric Vacuum Sweeper with the motor driven brush

Female Model Cleaner
A stereotypical cleaner leaning on her mop

An electric portable cleaner
Domestic vacuum cleaners began to appear in households from around 1907. This particular version seems ahead of its time

LILLIPUTIAN TRAIN
The Lilliputian steam locomotive train, in its day the smallest in the world, on the Romney, Hythe and District Railway, Kent, England, being spruced up for the holidays

England / Blandford
Blandford, Dorset, England, where a window cleaner cleans the windows of a branch of the Midland Bank and a placard advertises a forthcoming television exhibition

Woman hoovering
Woman with hoover using the attachments

Vacuum Cleaner Housewife
French housewife with that vacuum cleaner which, as the advert says, she just had to have Date: 1920s

Woman Window Cleaner
It must be tantalizing to be so near and yet so far from such delicious looking cakes, but the " Georgina" outside busies herself with her new job regardless of temptation

Orion Vacuum Cleaner
The ORION takes the leaning out of cleaning - has no revolving brush to wear away the surface by friction - and it costs only Nine Guineas !

Wall Street Cleaner
Sam Kattler was a street cleaner around Wall Street. He amassed a little fortune, lost it in the Wall Street Crash, and went back to Wall St. in his former occupation

Progress Vacuum Cleaner
You see, the house is much cleaner with the PROGRESS than with any other vacuum cleaner, whats more, Maman didn t even hear us do the housework !

Hoovering a Chair 1930S
A housewife demonstrates how to vacuum clean an armchair using a Hoover " Dustette" cleaner

Electrical Engine
The electrical locomotive which replaced the original steam engines - resulting in quieter, smoother and above all cleaner travel

Hungarian Window Cleaner
A window cleaner in Budapest, Hungary, who also washes down doors

Women Window Cleaners
George the window cleaner, who will soon be in the army, shows his pupils, the " Georginas" how to hold their buckets without spilling water as they clean J. Lyons window

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

Frantz Electric Cleaner
A house-proud lady vacuums her home with the Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner

Vacuum Cleaning Service
Vacuum cleaning service, in horse and cart form, parked outside the Edgware Road

Futuristic home, with chores done automatically
A futuristic home, with chores done automatically. The housewifes life will be an easy one in which she can sit back, read the paper and listen to music

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