Cleaners Collection (page 2)

Sweepers on Red Square, Moscow
Seven men keeping clean Moscows Red Square that separates the Kremlin (the former royal citadel) from the historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. Date: circa 1900

Bloomsbury Square
A gentleman walking his dog pauses to admire the statue of Charles James Fox, but street cleaners are indifferent... Date: 1831

Advert for GEC Electric cleaner 1950
GEC Electric cleaner. 1950

Korean Villagers - Street sellers?
Korean Villagers - Street sellers with brooms, brushes and mats for sale? Date: circa 1907

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

British Vacuum Cleaner
The British Vacuum Cleaner Date: 1913

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

Maid presents dry-cleaned dress to a lady
A lady looks delighted as a maid presents her with a frock that has paid a visit to Achille Serre Ltd, the famous cleaners and dyers. Date: 1927

Dry Cleaning
A young woman leaves a garment with a helpful shop assistant with a bouffant hairdo, behind the counter of a dry cleaning shop. Date: 1960s

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

British and American soldiers on a tank, WW1
British and American soldiers standing on top of a tank, with their respective flags, in a street procession during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Macedonian shoe shine boys Date: circa 1913

University Cleaners - Norman, Ohio
The University Cleaners - Norman, Ohio Date: circa 1940

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

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

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

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

Housewife Vacuuming
A young housewife in a pink gingham mini dress, vacuums her living room

March of Machinery
The March of Machinery. The usefulness of technological advances - artificial limbs dentures - street cleaners and mechanical horses

Woman hoovering
Woman with hoover using the attachments

Woman Window Cleaners
A smart line of newly trained " Georginas" march in single file down a central London street, carrying their ladders and buckets and are greatly admired by a dapper young man

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 !

Window Cleaners / Stamford
Cleaning the sash windows of a Georgian house in Stamford Le Hope

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 !

Vacuuming Stairs
A French maidservant vacuums the stairs with LE PROGRESS

Vacuuming Armchair
A French maidservant vacuums an armchair with LE PROGRESS

Vacuuming Carpet
A French maidservant vacuums the carpet with LE PROGRESS

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

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

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

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