Floor Collection (page 28)

Evening at the Savoy
A scene at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1927 showing couples on the dancefloor. Date: 1927

Plan for Astors Hotel. New-York, 1832
Astor Hotel, New York, floor plans. Four Chamber Floors, Similar to This Above the Principal Floor... 6 in All Date: ca. 1832

Astors Hotel. Basement, or Plan of Stores. Floor plans. Date: ca. 1832

Silhouette advertisement for H. L. Oakley at Bentalls
Advertisement for Bentalls Ltd department store in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, promoting the presence of the silhouette artist, H. L. Oakley available to cut portraits on the spot. circa 1925

Emancipated Woman - Husband doing chores
The Handy-man at home An Emancipated Woman reads happily by the fire whilst her sailor husband does his fair share of the household chores by scrubbling the floor. Date: 1915

Residents in lounge, Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove
Residents relaxing over their morning coffee in the first floor lounge of the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex

Marshall Field
The worlds largest department store occupies an entire block in central Chicago - 45 acres (18+ hectares) of floor space, employing about 10000 staff. Date: 1916

Two little girls on an Easter postcard
A Happy Easter -- two little girls kissing on an Easter greetings postcard. A blackboard on an easel stands at the side, and there are coloured eggs, chicks and flowers on the floor

Rudston Roman Villa mosaics during excavation 1 / 3
Rudston Roman Villa mosaics during excavation - Rudston, East Yorkshire - dated to the 4th century. The villa contained some of the best examples of Roman mosaics

Advert for Geebro floor covering 1939
The modern colourful flooring Geebro cord rugs and carpets coverings Date: 1939

Little girl with large dog
A little girl looks down at her large dog, reclining on the floor, on this birthday greetings postcard. Date: early 20th century

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

The Embassy Club, 1924
The Embassy Club in London in 1924, owned by restaurateur Luigi with entertainment supplied by (Bert) Ambrose and the Embassy Club band

Israel / Masada
Pillars which once supported the floor of the hot room in the ancient fortress of Masada, Israel. Date: 1960s

View of a ball from below
A quite remarkable and rather wonderful French postcard presenting the view of a ball as could be seen if one were looking upward through a glass floor! Date: circa 1910s

DRY ROT
Floorboards in an old house, destroyed by dry rot. Date: 1950s

Scrubbing Kitchen Floor
A housewife kneels down as she scrubs the kitchen floor with a scrubbing brush and an enamel bucket of water. Date: 1940s

Cleaning Kitchen Floor
An ingenious housewife saves her back by cleaning her kitchen floor with a cloth and a sweeping brush. Date: 1940s

Painting Pantomime Sets
Pantomime preparations - painting scenery. The huge canvasses are laid out on the floor and the sets are painted onto them using long handle brushes. Date: 1930s

MODERN KITCHEN
A modern (but now rather basic looking!) British kitchen, with a gas cooker in the corner. Date: early 1960s

Whit Sunday Custom
The Whit Sunday custom of strawing the floor of the Nave of the church with rushes, dating back to 1493. St. Mary Radcliffe Church, Bristol, England. Date: 1930s

Threshing in France 18Th
Farmers threshing by hand on the floor of the barn where the grain is being stored. Date: Circa 1760

Little girl with doll on a birthday postcard
A little girl with her doll on a birthday postcard. Date: 1915

Dunderpate and his friend Susan with broken crockery
Dunderpate and his friend Susan clearing up the crockery which he accidentally broke when he ran indoors. Date: 1938

Two outfits by Philippe et Gaston and Redfern
Two fashionable young ladies wearing the latest autumn outfits. On the left, a black crepe dress with floral detail, by Philippe et Gaston

Two ladies in dresses by Martial et Armand and Doeuillet
Two fashionable young ladies in the latest dresses. On the left, a sleeveless mauve dress in satin crepe with black and gold lace detail, by Martial et Armand

Young lady in grey and white outfit by Paul Poiret
Young lady answering the door in a grey and white crepe outfit by Paul Poiret. The tunic has a pink and green design, and there is a matching green belt slung low on the hips. 1924

Bulldog in a doorway

Irish Workhouse Dormitory Design 1840
Design by architect George Wilkinson for dormitories in Irish workhouse. On the upper two floors, inmates slept on raised platforms with a walkway in between

Stepping it out at Ciros by Mundo
An impression by Mundo of some of the well-known people to grace the dance floor at Ciros Club, a popular and fashionable nightclub in Orange Street, London during the inter-war period

Traditional two-storey house - Vietnam
Traditional two-storey house - Northern territory of Tonkin, Vietnam Date: circa 1910s

Gustav III of Sweden is killed at a masked ball
Gustav III, king of Sweden, is assassinated while attending a masked ball at the Opera House, by Jakob Johan Anckarstrom. 1792

Restaurant Frascati Orchestra, Oxford Street, London W1
Restaurant Frascati Orchestra, 32 Oxford Street, London W1, with Madame Cecile Couturier, Director, on the violin, and her happy band of men on their various instruments

Sir Douglas Haig, Georges Clemenceau and others
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928), French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) and others, at a meeting during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

A Mahratta Pandit and his Family, India
A Mahratta Pandit and his Family. A pandit sits on a carpet outside a tent. A pandit is a scholar or teacher, particularly one skilled in Sanskrit and Hindu law. 1809

Scout Log Cabin Rockerfeller Centre, New York
A log cabin (with roof and chinks fortified against wind and cold) erected by a Troop of Boy Scouts atop the 70th floor roof of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, New York

Four Turkish men in a room
Four men in a room with two windows overlooking a courtyard. All wear Turkish robes and turbans, and three are sitting cross-legged on the floor

Turkish woman brought coffee
A woman in oriental robes sits smoking a pipe with a very long stem while her servant brings her coffee. There are richly ornamented carpets on the floor. 1756

Rural Workhouse Model Plan
Ground floor plan of a model rural workhouse for five hundred persons issued by the Poor Law Commissioners in 1835. Designed by Sir Francis Head

West London Union Mens Casual Ward 1857
The mens casual ward of the West London Poor Law Union, used to provide overnight accommodation for tramps and vagrants. The men slept on the bare floor in a twelve-stall stable

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme

Large Minoan Strage Jar - Pithoi
The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos revealed a remarkable set of large Minoan storage jars, or pithoi. The compartments in the floor were for grain and produce

Housewives Stunt School
Housewife Teresa Vincent leaps from the first floor of a building onto cardboard boxes and mattresses 20 feet below. It makes a change from washing up, she explained. Date: 1960s

Panthemont Abbey Plan
Plan of the first floor of the Royal Abbey of Panthemont, Faubourg Saint Germain, Paris. Designed by Francois Franque, architect for Louis XV. Date: Circa 1760

Interior, Hotel Bonivard, Montreux, Switzerland
View of the spacious sitting room of the Hotel Bonivard, Montreux, Switzerland. Date: 1950s

Laying a Tiled Floor
Three men lay a tiled floor in a grand house, being careful to measure everything exactly Date: circa 1760

School of Sultan Hassan in Turkey
Scene in the school of Sultan Hassan, Turkey. Date: circa 1850

Social / Good Housekeeping
Scene in a middle-class English home: he wears Oxford bags, she lies on the floor and smokes a cigarette in a long holder. Date: 1927

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