Domestic Collection (page 2)

Female contortionist Diana Gaye playing records
The female contortionist Diana Gaye in the sitting room, putting a record on the record player, with an array of the latest LP covers on display. Date: 1971

Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900s
Various machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900

Holger Drachmann, Villa Pax, Skagen, Denmark
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (1846-1908), Danish poet and dramatist, seen here at his home, Villa Pax, Vesterby, Skagen, Denmark, with his third wife Soffi. Date: circa 1907

Angelina Holds Baby 1870
Little girl holds her baby brother in her arms for the first timey

Advertisement for Aladdin safety paraffin mantle lamp from Aladdin Industries Ltd. of Aladdin House, South Street, London. Date: c.1924

Terrible accident - Lady ablaze - Figure 1
Figure 1 of 2. Terrible accident - Lady ablaze, her dress has caught fire and she is engulfed by the inferno. This illustration shows that if one is upright

1930s woman cooking in her kitchen
A woman stands at a kitchen pantry or dresser trying out new recipes. Attached to the work service is a hand operated meat mincer. Date: c.1930

Getting Ready for a Game, 1901, by Carl Larsson
Carl Larsson (1853-1919). Swedish painter. Getting Ready for a Game, 1901. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Cover design, Simplicity Sewing Book, helpful hints for beginners and experts. 1947

Victorian style domestic interior with fireplace
A Victorian style domestic interior with fireplace, and different patterns everywhere you look

Twelve breeds of pigeon. Drawing / Engraving from Daniel Girton, The new and complete pigeon-fancier; or, Modern treatise on domestic pigeons. Frontispiece. Date: circa 1804

Ovis aries, sheep
Plate 2 from The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Vol. 2, 1842, by David Low (1786-1859). Entitled Breed of the Higher Welsh Mountains

Little girl with dog by Muriel Dawson
Little girl in pink pyjamas standing in front of a fireplace with a white dog, by Muriel Dawson. circa 1920s

Our Cats: a domestic history by Louis Wain
A study of domestic cats, including visit to a cat show by Louis Wain. Date: 1884

Bylaugh Hall
The ruins of Bylaugh (pronouced beela ) Hall, Norfolk, England. This was the new Bylaugh Hall, built in 1850 by Charles Barry. Here in ruins in the early 1960s. Date: 19th century

Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, were modelled on the Karl Marx Hof flats in Vienna, Austria. The steel frame and concrete clad buildings were demolished 1978 Date: built late 1930s

THE UGLY HOUSE
The Ugly House near Betwys- y-Coed, North Wales. Date: 1950s

Ladies in a kitchen
Two woman with sleek 1920s hair discuss the state of their hands in front of a kitchen sink filled with brightly decorated art deco pottery

Timber-framed house, Quedlinburg, Germany
View of an old renovated timber-framed house in the medieval part of the town of Quedlinburg, Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony Anhalt), Germany

Washing Board
A photograph demonstrating the use of a scrubbing board in a tub during washday in the early 20th century

Attercliffe St / Sheffield
Two women have a chat on the doorstep of one of a row of terraced houses in Attercliffe Street, Sheffield

London Terraced Housing
A row of Victorian terraced houses in an East London street, due for demolition

Council Flats, Sheffield
Boys play on a climbing frame outside blocks of council flats on the Parkhill Estate, Sheffield

Bauhaus Kitchen 1930
Bauhaus-style fitted kitchen

Ethiopian Family 1805
Family scene; man, woman and child of Ethiopia

Farm Boy & Plough Horse
A farm boy leads two plough horses across a field

Art Deco Interior
The fantastic German Art Deco interior of a house in Bremen, which belonged to Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 - 1907), the first German artist to absorb French modernism

Art Deco Bathroom
An Art Deco style bathroom suite, with a shower fitting over the bath and plastic shower curtain

Aga Kitchen Advert (2)
Advertisement for a modern kitchen complete with Aga (2 of 2)

Aga Kitchen Advert (1)
Advertisement for a modern kitchen complete with Aga (1 of 2)

Art deco bedroom
A spacious Art Deco bedroom designed by Roger Bal

W Heath Robinson - At the At Home

Advert, Royles Patent Self-Pouring Teapots
Advertisement for Royles Patent Self-Pouring Teapots, October 1888. 1888

Queen Elizabeths Hunting Lodge, Epping Forest, Essex, England. This splendid timber- framed three-storey building was used by royalty when on hunting trips in the forest. Date: 16th century

Foxy-Golf at Belize
Foxy-Golf hide domestic area looking from the entrance gate. Bar to extreme left and accommodation to the right Date: 1990

Birthday card - Man relaxing in a chair
Birthday card, Man relaxing in a chair. circa 1930s

Two By Two by Muriel Dawson -- a little child plays with a Noahs Ark. Date: 1930

Girls Wash Dolls Clothes
Two girls peg out their dolls laundry on a washing line in the garden. Date: circa 1890

Georgian Town Houses
Georgian houses in Selwood Place, a quiet street in Chelsea, London

Spinning wool, Glen Columbkille, County Donegal, Ireland
Woman in her cottage spinning wool in Glen Columbkille (Glencolmcille, Gleann Cholm Cille), County Donegal, north-west Ireland. Date: circa 1900s

Livng Room by Betty Joel
A light living room with wooden floor and matching wooden furniture. Date: 1933

Domestic female Reindeer with newborn calf (Rangifer tarandus). forest near river Taz; spring; North Tumen regon, Siberia, Russia

Viscountess Harcourt and daughters by Madame Yevonde
Viscountess Harcourt and two daughters by Madame Yevonde. She was the wife of the 2nd Viscount Harcourt. Her daughters are the Hon. Elizabeth Ann Harcourt (b. 1932) and the Hon

Tudor Cottage vegetable garden, Walton, Essex
Standing in the vegetable garden of Tudor Cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, a bowler hatted and bearded gentleman proudly displays one of his marrows, while a woman stands on the path. circa 1900

Houses on Cobbled Street
A woman waits outside a terraced house on a cobbled street in Warrington, Cheshire Date: circa 1960

7 Jewry Street London
7 Jewry Street. Aldgate, London, which survived the World War Two Blitz, unlike its next door neigbour. Date: 1950s

Fairyland Fancies -- a little girl gazes into the fire, seeing imaginary figures of fairies, witches and goblins. late 19th century

Music at home - little girl at the piano
Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Sir William and Lady Maria Somerville, plays the piano on tiptoe. Date: 1866

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