Household Collection (page 10)

Washing Stockings / 1940S
Washing day: a young woman washes stockings by hand at the sink using a bar of soap and two basins of water Date: 1940s

Advert for Oetzmann & Co. Victorian furniture 1880s
Victorian furniture, available from Oetzmann & Co, Hampstead, London. Circa 1880s

Advert in Zimmermann & Co. lamps 1888
Zimmermann & Co. Lamp manufactures and importers. Date: 1888

William N. Froy & Sons - exterior factory
Exterior of William Nathaniel Froy & Sons, in Hammersmith, London West. Builders merchant, manufacturing and selling fittings, including taps, baths, stoves and glass. Date: 19th century

Advert for Silicated Carbon Filter Company 1888
Patent Silicated Carbon Filter, each time that the fiter is filled the air under the Aerator Cover is forced in the direction shown by the arrows through the Silicated Carbon block

Advert for Foots library lounge chair 1906
Just a finger touch of the occupant will instantly change the back to any inclination from upright to flat. Date: 1906

Advert for Maple & Co. bedroom furniture 1906
Soild oak bedroom furniture, consisting of wardrobe with mirrored door, dressing chess with landscape mirror and washstand with marble top and tiled splashback. 1906

Thermega electric blanket 1929
Replacing the hot water bottle the Thermega electric blanket keeps the bed evenly warm. Date: 1929

Electrical household appliances 1929
Products from the Harrods catalogue electrical department, household items with a flexible wire and wall plug. Date: 1929

Advert for Maple & Co. lamps 1892
Various floor lamps in solid brass, wrought iron and copper, each lamp is fitted with a patent self-extinguished burner. 1892

Advert for Spiers & Ponds stores, oil lamps 1898
Selection of Victorian oil lamps available from Spiers & Pond s, hardware department. 1898

Advert for J. L Foot & Son reclining chair 1899
Comfortable reclining chair, can be lowered and moved in any position from upright to flat. 1899

Advert for Maple & Co bedroom suite 1882
Beautifully enamelled and highly-finished bedroom suite. Consisting of large wardrobe with drawers bevelled plate-glass door

Art Deco fireplace 1936
Dull mottle tiles with plain vertical pattern to the side and a Art Deco centre. Date: 1936

Advert for Caffeta coffee maker 1912
Caffeta, coffee maker that make you a cup to perfection! Used at the table used with a lamp underneath. 1912

Advertisement for Horners patent Dorcas thimble, 1899
Advertisement for Charles Horners patent Dorcas thimble, as worn by a quarter of a million ladies. This thimble has a steel core, lined with two layers of silver

Community heating by G. H. Davis
Community heating: a system which keeps an entire town warm and abolishes household drudgery. A central power station provides a day

Advert for Latona radiators 1933
Perfect heating and economy. The Latona is the only efficient paraffin oil-heated portable, giving the comfort of central heating without the expense of installing costly piping. 1933

Dr Frederick L H Willis, American spiritualist and physician
Dr Frederick Llewellyn Hovey Willis (1830-1914), American spiritualist minister and physician. He grew up in the same household as Louisa May Alcott and her family

Kissing a young maid
A man leans in to kiss the neck of a young maid; she seems quite happy to be distracted from her ironing. Date: 1885

Advert for Oetzmann & Co. Victorian furniture 1900
Great clearance sale of Victorian furnuture, including drawing-room folding occasional chair, polished Chippendale mahogany, upholstered with art material. Inlaid mahogany drawing-room arm chair

Trade catalogue for Edwardian sweet making utensils 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of sweet making utensils. 1911

Advert for Goblin vacuum cleaner 1948
Goblin electric vacuum cleaner, for carpets, and polished floors. 1948

Household Brigade - Officer of the British Life Guards
An Officer of The Life Guards (LG) (the senior regiment of the British Army and part of the Household Cavalry, along with the Blues and Royals), pictured with his young son

Buckingham Palace Investiture Pass. 1918

Advert for Magnet household items 1929
Magnet, a wide variety of electrical gifts for Christmas. 1929

Pewter tankards with handle and lid. Medieval Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Ann Todd gives in her appliances for the war effort
Actress Ann Todd photographed handing in her spare household appliances to the local W.V.S. office in Berkshire. In 1940, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production

Advert for Arden Hills & Co new patent gas fires 1888
Patent asbestos gas fires by Arden Hill s, tiled hearth and brass rail, pattern, no sheet-iron parts, large fire front, hook at back, new burner, fall-down trivet

Advert for Clarkes Patent Fairy lamps 1888
Advert for Clarkes Patent Fairy lamps, showing how to transform gasoliers, wall brackets, gas standards ect, temporarily into Clarkes Fairy lamps without disturbing the gas arrangement. Date: 1888

Anne of Cleves funeral panorama: rear of procession
Contemporary panoramic view of the funeral procession of Anne of Cleves to Westminser Abbey, a skilled though sketchy drawing on a roll of heavy parchment mounted on rollers

Advert for Maple & Co wicker furniture 1892
Seletion of comfortable wicker furniture for interior and exterior use. 1892

Advert for Beechams Pills 1886
Used in the Palace by Queen Victoria, in the cottage, at sea and when studying. Sold only at wholesale and retail, by the Proprietor, T. Beecham, chemist St. Heens, lancashire. 1886

Advertising trade card, Henri Pannier, Dunkirk, France
Advertising trade card, Henri Pannier, Place de la Republique, Dunkirk, France, offering lighting and heating products and services. circa 1910s

Advert for Berkefeld Filter, clean water 1901
Water absolutely free from disease germs by using Berkefeld Filter. Can be easily and cheaply fitted to the service pipe of any house having ordinary pressure. 1901

Susi - with electric bar fire
Susi - warming herself in front of an electric bar fire. 1950s

Advert for Stadelmann & Co. paraffin lamps 1888
Advert for Stadelmann & Co. decorative glass paraffin lamps. 1888

Advert for Charles Joyner & Co. lighting 1888
Advert for Charles Joyner & Co. for Chandeliers, brackets, pendants, hall laterns and general gasfittings. Available in Icknield Square, Birmingham. 1888

Victorian Scrap -- Washerwoman. late 19th century

Elizabethan servants polishing saucepans

Advertisement, Sapolio Washing-Up Soap
Advertisement for Sapolio Washing-Up Soap, for cleaning all the utensils. circa 1935

London Trade Card - James Rodwell, Upholsterer and Sworn Appraiser, at the Royal Bed and Star, 2nd door from the corner of New Broad Street, facing Bedlam Walk in Moorfields. 18th century

Advert for Arctic Lamps 1898
Decorative lamps with the old style burning shades and the new improved Artic lamp with shade support. 1898

Proclamation of King George V - Children in the crowd - May, 1910. Date: 1910

Things I Should Like To See I by Bateman. A profiteering greengrocer obliged to buy his household vegetables at an exorbitant price from another shop

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Edwardian items 1901
Selection of items from Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, Regent Street, London; Ladys elegantly chased solid silver card case, solid silver 4-handed mether, to hold cigaretts

Advert for Mappin & Webbs wedding gifts 1889
Selection of silver plate wedding gifts; fluted biscuit, butter and cheese stand, oak salad bowl, with electro silver mounts with servers to match, solid silver salt cellars and spoons

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1885
Hudsons Soap insures the luxury of pure clean clothes. Woman scrubbing some clothes in some soapy water. 1885

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