Domestic Collection (page 10)

Illustration, A Big Black Blot - girl and doll. late 19th century

Family with black servant. early 19th century

Musical soiree - Do you know this song?
Musical soiree in a drawing room - Do you know this song? 1860s

Couple at gate, man wearing Boer War medals, showing that he was present at the Defence of Kimberley. Date: circa 1905

Letter from The Englishwomans Domestic Magazine
Handwritten letter from The Englishwomans Domestic Magazine, London, a publication of Samuel Orchart Beeton, husband of Isabella Beeton

Winding weft at a spinning wheel in Northern Ireland
Cottage industries, winding weft at a spinning wheel in Northern Ireland. Date: 1888

Advert for Berkefeld Filter, germ proof water 1910
Germ proof filtered water supply. Date: 1910

Advert for Reyrolle electric plug & sockets 1929
Safe to handle, domestic electrical apparatus, protected plug and sockets, made with British standard. Date: 1929

Bunk beds in farmhouse, Brittany, Northern France
Bunk beds with children in a Breton farmhouse, Brittany, Northern France. The beds have sliding door panels which can be closed in the daytime. Date: 1922

American Racial Stereotypes - The First Child. 19th century

House interior, Purari Delta, New Guinea, South West Pacific
Interior of a mens house, with mural decorations consisting of shields, drums and ornaments, Purari Delta, New Guinea, South West Pacific (then part of the British Empire, now Papua New Guinea)

Somali woman with hookah, Gulf of Aden, Arabia
Somali woman relaxing with a hookah, Gulf of Aden, Arabia. Date: 1922

Woman making balls of clay and slack, West Country
West Country woman making balls of clay and slack (coal), an economical way of keeping fires alight from night to morning

Mothers Day card with flowers and a bird. Date: circa 1930s

Married couple on a comic greetings card, with verse (some of it deleted) and pull tab -- the wife is angry because her husband is late home, and appears to be drunk. Date: circa 1850s

Cottage Life, mother peeling potatoes. mid-19th century

Children with tree on a German Christmas postcard
Children with tree and presents on a German Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Cats playing the piano and singing on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl watching Punch and Judy on a Valentines card
Boy and girl watching Punch and Judy on a comic Valentines card -- a vision of the future! Date: circa 1900s

The New Bonnet

G Sheridan Knowles, Christmas Pennies

A Critical Moment by Alfred Schwarz - a woman runs her bicycle (no doubt a Christmas present) into a table, breaking some crockery. circa 1898

Domestic scene with woman, baby and two boys at a table
Domestic scene with a woman, a baby and two boys at a table. Date: circa 1890s

Sentimental scene -- Kiss Me, Mama. A little girl looks at a lantern slide projection of her departed mother, while her father bows his head in grief. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

My Mothers Bible -- man kneeling in prayer, And I seek to do His will. (4 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

My Mothers Bible -- open book in window, Blessed book, precious book. (2 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

My Mothers Bible -- mother and son, When I stood at mothers knee. (1 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Home Sweet Home -- happy domestic scene, How sweet it is to sit beneath a fond fathers smile. (1 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

Native laundry, Hong Kong, China, showing women hanging out washing. Date: circa 1930s

Sir Philip Sassoons home, 25 Park Lane: the library
The Park Lane home of British politician Sir Philip Sassoon(1888-1939), decorated in the French style. Pictured here is the library

Interior, house on the NW coast of America
Interior, house on the north-west coast of America, showing parents and children

Advert, Formica Kitchen, Christmas 1953. 1953

Advert for Berkefeld Filter, clean water 1912
If your eyes could see the impurities in your present drinking water, you would not hesitate a moment to install a Berkefeld filter Date: 1912

Woman and boy in a kitchen, possibly as part of a safety in the home campaign. Date: circa 1960s

Advert for Maple & Co. lamps 1893
Selection of wrought iron and polished brass extending floor lamps. Date: 1893

Electric kettle connected to the ceiling light 1902
Two victorian couples seated at the dining room table with a hot cup of tea, from a kettle connected to the ceiling light. 1902

Curtis British Entomology Plate 102
Diptera: Rhyphus fenestralis = Sylvicola fenestralis (Domestic Gnat-like fly) [Plant: Solanum dulcamara (Bitter-sweet)] Date: 1824-39

Typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix, WW1
A typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix. Here I took my cafe au lait each morning before going down line. Annotated on back of picture - Hortense Delacroix

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (1854 - 1925) English statesman and colonial administrator who played a role in the formulation of British foreign

BEDOUIN TENT, PALESTINE
two men sit comforatbly round the fire waiting for the food to cook. Date: 1913

GERMANY UNITED W AUSTRIA
Germany and Austria at last together under a single Fuhrer who will lead the two united nations to victory, success, prosperity, military glory and domestic happiness... maybe Date: 1938

Two Japanese women asleep in a simple bed. Date: 1890s

Girls in a cookery lesson, learning to cook tarts and a joint of beef which a group of teachers will buy for their dinner

Plus Manor was built c. 1576 by Robert Wynn of Gwydar and is a remarkably good example of a town manor house of the Tudor period. It is in Conway, north Wales. Date: late 16th century

Moyses Hall, Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, was built by the Normans, in about 1180. It is now a museum of the history of West Sussex. Date: late 12th century

A row of charming old thatched cottages and the thatched Red Lion pub, at Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England. Date: 1940s

Stoneleigh Abbey is the largest house in Warwickshire, England. The impressive facade of the West Wing dates from 1726 and was designed by Francis Smith of Warwick. Date: 18th century

Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, a mansion originally built by James Paine for Sir Rowland Winn, on the site of a 12th century priory dedicated to Saint Oswald. Date: mid 18th century

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