House Wife Collection (page 2)

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

Mystery Household Task
A young housewife pours something from her teapot through a strainer into a bowl - but why? Is she removing stains from garments? Date: 1940s

Huge Pumpkin Lantern
A happy housewife cuts the lid into the top of her huge Halloween (or Thanksgiving) pumpkin lantern! Date: 1960s

Housewife and Pooch
An attractive housewife does a spot of window shopping outside the fruiterers, while her bored pooch waits for her. Date: 1960s

Leisure Kitchens advertisment, 1950s
Advertisement for Leisure Kitchen Cabinets featuring a 1950s housewife proudly showing off her new, immaculate kitchen. 1950s

Lyons coffee advertisement
Advertisement for Lyons instant coffee granules showing an immaculate 1950s housewife giving a demonstration of how to make the perfect cup of coffee. 1950s

Redring advertisement, c. 1955
Advertisement for Redring Metrovick Boiling Plates manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company of Old Trafford, Manchester, showing a jubilant housewife delighted with her new cooker

Ware rite surfaces advertisement
Advertisement for Ware-rite kitchen surfaces, guaranteeing brighter homes and lighter work. c.1950

A domestic difference
A housewife prepares to throw a piece of dough at her husband, who is clearly in the dog house. Date: 1885

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

German Costume 1790

Washing Machine / 1960S
A fashionable woman does some washing Date: 1960s

Middle Class Prize Wives
Woman, women, wife, housewife Mr Punchs Four Prize Middle Class Wives. The wife as cook, intellectual companion, clerk and tennis partner! Date: 1889

Digging Garden 1970S
A suburban housewife digging the garden. Date: 1975

Advert for Bon Ami powder
Bon Ami - gives nickel the glow of polished silver, a damp cloth, a bit of a rub, a moments wait while the magic-white cloud foams..... then whisk

Woman hanging out the washing on a line
A woman hanging out the washing on a line (or two), apparently at the side of a stretch of water

Hanging out the washing
A young housewife takes advantage of a breezy day and hangs out her washing on the line

Young ladies Preparatory School 1858
Preparatory School for young ladies, where they are urged to become good housewives and know something about the art of cookery

Lady sitting on a wooden stool
A pretty lady in a white dress, sitting on a stool. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Mrs Zia - An Istanbul Housewife - unusual pictures as she is un-veiled and allowing her portrait to be taken. Also unusual in the fact that she is not a professional model posing for the shot

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

Gas advertisement 1954
Advertisement by the Gas Industry promoting the use of coal-fired gas as fuel for gas cookers in the 1950s home. To drive home the point

Housewife Using a Modern Gas Cooker
The housewifes best friend is a modern gas cooker equipped with every convenience for cooking food scientifically and daintily

Skinning a Rabbit for Dinner
A housewife, determined to take on the domestic duties that their servant currently carries out, gets to grips with skinning a rabbit for dinner

Quaker Oats Ad 1931
Advert for Quick Quaker Oats which can be knocked up in moments by a young housewife on the hob of a cooker before her hard working husband goes off to the office

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

Singing Houswife
Full-length portrait of a housewife in an apron, reaching out her arms as if she has just burst into song

Housewife Shopping 1950S
A shop assistant wraps up a loaf of bread as a pretty young woman in a fetching hat points out which type of sausages she wants at the counter of a delicatessen

Making Apricot Jam
Home made jam, made from fresh apricots and lemons, sugar etc, beautifully preserved in well-labelled jars

Housewife Washing Up
A glamorous houswife, happy in her work, washes the dishes by hand at the kitchen sink

Dusting for Exercise
A young lady in shorts with buttoned falls gives these windows a vigorous rub with a checked cloth - a great way to tone up the waist and bust without the need of a gym!

Family / Hilda Makes Coffe
Hilda makes the coffee, to find out what its like to be a housewife

Housewife Cook Tasting
A housewife tastes one of her creations with a spoon, wearing a frilly apron, and standing in an immaculate kitchen

Dusting a Coffee Table
A young housewife dusts her marble effect coffee table

Mopping Linoleum 1940S
A typical housewife wearing a snood, uses a wet mop to clean the kitchen lino

Housewife Using Twin Tub
A young housewife uses wooden pincers to pull her laundry out of the washing half of the Twin Tub washing machine to put it into the spinning half

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

Doing the Drying Up
A happy young housewife in a red top dries up her yellow plastic collinder

Coupon Allocation 1940S
Household management : A housewife and her adult daughter have a cup of tea and a cigarette together as they work out their coupon allocation around the table

Woman under Laburnum
A housewife in a red overcoat returns to her suburban semi- detached house. A laburnum tree with lovely yellow blossom frames the picture

Cooking Supper
Hey good looking, what you got cooking? A glamorous, happy housewife gets her casserole out of the kitchen oven

Pouring Tea
Lady poses while pouring tea. The groceries lie partially unpacked on the table

Tasting the Soup
Lady lightly blows on the soup before testing it from the pot

Lady Makes Bed
A housewife with an elegent hairstyle makes the bed

Housewife Pours Coffee
An immaculate young housewife pours coffee into two cups, and all seems right with the world

Housewife / Basket
A young housewife smiles as she opens the front door before going shopping with her basket over her arm

Shopping List
A young housewife checks her shopping list at home before setting out for the shops

Ufos / New Berlin, NY
A New Berlin housewife looks out of her window at night and sees beings working on a mysterious craft : alas, our artist has taken generous liberties with the facts !

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