House Hold Collection (page 3)

Poster for Robin Starch, showing two smart little boys sitting on an enormous starched white Eton collar

Mazagan (El Jadida), Morocco
The Harem of a Moorish Minister embarking at Mazagan. The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, 90-km southwest of Casablanca

Mangling Machine
Engraving of a woman using a mangle to squeeze excess water out of washed clothes

Clothes Lines - London
Drying sheets and general washing in the back yards of a row of terraced houses in London

Hot Water Bottle
A smartly dressed woman fills her hot water bottle from a kettle

The Torpedo Washer / 1888
THE TORPEDO WASHER - clothes cleaned by compressed air, in half the time of any other washer

Turning on the Cooker
Lady models with the new Prince II, Parkinson Crown cooker, in a domestic setting

Advert / Pochin Panshine
Pochins Panshine

Advert / Anchor Thread 2 / 2
Clarks Anchor Thread - skipping (2 of 2)

Flat Iron 1930S
An electric pressing iron, used by tailors

Pegging out Washing / 1875
Doing the laundry

Advert for The General Electric Company 1942
G.E.C. household electric appliances Whats next ? Yesterday the dolly... next the copper; today the eletric washer... and tomorrow

Mending household items 1943
Make Do and Mend. During World War Two women became very resourceful, they tackled repairs and maintenance of many clothing and household items, that today we would just throw away and replace. 1943

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1938
Its the inside that matters most! If you are buying mattress you will, of course, buy one of the spring-interior type to-day demanded by everybody with modern ideas of comfort

Advert for Flavel radiant-panel gas heater 1938
Don t dodge draughts Nearly every house has its own particular draught. Sometimes it is in the hall. Sometimes just round the dinning-room door. Chilly draughts.... ugh! Heres the way to tame them

Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1938
Are you a slave to your cooker ? The new world 45/48 gas cookers with exclusive regulo control. Power burners to give more concentrated heat

Advert for Kolster-Brandes in expensive radios 1931
KB inexpensive radio, with three range of wave-lengths, short, medium and long. Comes in a walnut cabinet and stand. 1931

Advert for electric cookers by Belling 1931
Happy ladies ! Belling has made electric cooking cheap. 1. New visible heat boiling-griller and fastest in the world. 2. Temset automatic oven control. 3. All gleaming white mottled enamel finish

Advert for Solar aluminium hot water bottle 1933
Insist on solar cast aluminium oval hot water bottle. Keeps hot all night. Will not break. Will not chip. Will not dent. Will last for ever. Top filling. 1933

Advert for Radiation gas appliances 1947
For Gas appliances say New World silent beam gas fires burns silently with a restful glow whether the gas is high or low. 1947

Advert for The National Savings Committee 1940
This year make your holiday weeks National Savings Week ! In 1940 The National Savings Committee asked that the general public put aside the thought of going away on holiday

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1933
Unequalled for comfort, The Vi-Spring - Vibase combination. The Worlds most luxurious bed equipment. The Vi-Spring - Vibase combination is unquestionably the finest bed equipment ever made to ensure

Geyser Washing Machine
Geyser Electric Washer - compact - propelling a Geyser of Suds Date: 1921

Clothes Soak in Rinso
Clothes soaking in Rinso in the washtub of an American home : more than a million packages are used every week ! Date: 1924

British Vacuum Cleaner
The British Vacuum Cleaner Date: 1913

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

Restrictions are not finished! 1919
French cook holds up a small morsel of food on a plater, while the lady of the house is looking in a recipe book. Date: 1919

A Falda Washing Machine
A Falda washing machine. Date: 1934

Electrical Appliances
This French farmers wife has an electric cooker, radiator, water heater, iron, boiler, washing machine, sewing machine and ventilator Date: 1961

Dolly Tub and Wringer 1904
Dolly tub and wringer, Yorkshire, 1904 Date: 1904

Occupations related to household arts. Poster promoting occupations related to household arts, such as cook, nursemaid, teacher, dietician, lunch room worker, waitress, and nurse

There are jobs for you, if trained Complete free course in household training : You learn meal planning, cooking, table service, laundry, cleaning and child care

Training center for household employees - Household Service Demonstration Project, WPA. Poster showing a maid carrying a tray. Date 1936-1941

Columbus at the court of Barcelona. Christopher Columbus standing before the King and Queen of Spain, with Indians from the New World, Feb. 1493. Date 1893

Laundry in a hot spring - Reykjavik, Iceland
Women do their household laundry in a hot pool - Reykjavik, Iceland. Date: circa 1910s

American agriculturist. Farm, garden, and household. Date c1866 Dec. 24

Washington, DC Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, reading the Bible to her household. Date 1942 Aug

The Miseries of a Bachelor. Unmarried man trying to do his own sewing and darning Date: ca. 1865

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with hot plate 1938
Heres something New! The main cooker is fitted with the " P.R" hot plate closet in lieu of usual plate rack, and thus provides an enclosed space in which food or plates

Little girl on a postcard, hanging up the washing
A little girl on a greetings postcard hangs up the washing on the line. Date: early 20th century

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with no stooping
Cooking without stooping. In kitchens where there is more than the usual space available, or where it is desirable to untilize an open-range setting setting the Maintop gas cooker provides a

Smiling woman preparing a wholesome feast
A woman wearing a chequered apron and broad smile, leans over the stove and peels potatoes for the roast dinner she is preparing. 1937

Calor Gas Window display, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Window display promoting Calor Gas and other products at a hardware ironmongers shop in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 1956

Poster: How to make your household linens last longer

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

Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale
" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street

Poster: Pots and Pans
Poster giving advice on looking after Pots and Pans so that they last as long as possible. 20th century

Everybody works but Father - Unemployment
Father enjoys his paper and pipe in front of the fire, whilst Mother does the washing, Sister Ann also helps and the young narrator of this social comment carries a paint pot. Date: 1906

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