Household Collection (page 16)

Advert for Clarkes babies food warmer 1913
Bootle-fed babies are fed by night with a minimum of trouble where a Clarkes Food warmer is used. It heats liquid foods and keeps them warm throughout the night

Sir Sidney R. Greville, Vanity Fair, Spy
The Hon. SIR SIDNEY ROBERT GREVILLE (1866-1927) Assistant Private Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for India 1887

Lord Otho A. FitzGerald, Vanity Fair, Spy
LORD ORTHO AUGUSTUS FITZGERALD (1827-1882) the third son of the 3rd Duke of Leinster. MP for Kildare, Treasurer (1866) then Comptroller of the Household from 1868 to 1874

Advert for Beatl coffee service 1930
Bright and colourful Beatl coffee service with tray to match, complete with quaintly-formed sugar and cream. Date: 1930

Trade catalogue for ice cream moulds 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing pewter ice cream moulds. Date: 1911

Trade catalogue for Kettles and Stands 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of brass kettles and urns for use on the tea-table. Date: 1911

Trade catalogue for savoury and biscuit moulds 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of designed moulds including crown, fish, butterfly and savoury and biscuit moulds. 1911

Trade catalogue for ice cream machines 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing ice cream making and freezing machines. 1911

Trade catalogue for irons 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a selection of irons. Date: 1911

London Coal Exchange
The Coal Exchange in Thames Street, a very important place when every household in London depended on the coal merchant. Date: 1830

Lord Hardwicke, Vanity Fair, Ape
CHARLES PHILIP YORKE, 5th Earl of HARDWICKE (1836-1897) styled Viscount Royston until 1873. British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1939
Advert for Main cabinet gas cooker Date: 1939

Polishing Shoes
Photograph demonstrating how to polish shoes to ensure a perfect shine in 1911. Date: 1911

Ironing Collars
Photograph demonstrating the technique for ironing bib and collars in 1911. Date: 1911

Advert for Asprey cocktail cabinets 1936
Cocktail wagon in walnut and chromium, closing mahogany with chromium mounts, walnut with rising back panel fitted with English cut glass and separate serving tray and limed oak

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1929
Too tired to dance, a good partner - a fine band - a jolly evening wasted, because they are too tied to enjoy themselves. What a joy it is to get up each moring felling thoroughly rested

Advert for GEC Electric cleaner 1950
GEC Electric cleaner. 1950

Trade catalogue for hunting trophies 1937
Trade catalogue for Army and Navy Stores, showing a selection of hunting trophies including rhinoceros as a tobacco jar, elephants foot as a liqueur stand, deer slot mounted as a flower vase

Advert for Burndept - Ethodyne wireless 1925
Ethodyne wireless reception, double doors open front, with slight adjustments of only two dials, the Ethodyne enables you to listen to station after station, both British and continental

Viscount Belhaven
ROBERT DOUGLAS, viscount BELHAVEN Master of the Household to Charles I. Date: 1574 - 1639

Alexandrine Tinne
ALEXANDRINE PETRONELLA FRANCINA TINNE Dutch traveler in Africa with her household in Algiers. Date: 1839 - 1869

J Hume Purves
J HUME PURVES Comptroller of the Household to Her Royal Highness the duchess of Cambridge, and presumably a friend of d Orsay. Date: circa 1838

Kids Hang out Washing
Three children at a maternity hospital and creche in Paris, France, pegging out laundry on washing day. Date: early 1930s

Household Cupboard
Two young women look in an odds and ends cupboard in a corner under the stairs. Date: early 1930s

Disinfecting a Room
A young woman disinfecting a room. Date: early 1930s

Man Knitting
Knit one, purl one.. a very smart man in a suit, with slicked-back hair and wearing spectacles, learning to knit in the comfort of his living room armchair. Date: early 1930s

George Baron Lansdowne
GEORGE GRANVILLE, baron LANSDOWNE Courtier - Treasurer of the Household, writer. Date: 1667 - 1735

Womens Rights - Satire Reversal of Traditional Roles
A suited and booted Suffragette heads out to her Club, holding a Paper on the Duties of a Wife and a Debate on Emancipation, whilst her tired husband is left rocking the baby... Date: circa 1910s

Comic Postcard - Slops removed and served
Comic Postcard - A Housemaid removes and empties the slops from a bedroom chamber pot (potty), whilst at the same time a (hopefully different type of)

The effects of WW1 on French Food Prices - BEFORE (1 / 2)
The Household Accounts The effects of the First World War on French Food Prices - in 1916 (1/2) Date: circa 1916

The effects of WW1 on French Food Prices - AFTER (2 / 2)
The Household Accounts The effects of the First World War on French Food Prices - in 1918 (2/2) Date: circa 1918

Russian House Guard - likely the security for a wealthy Moscow or St Petersburg family. Date: circa 1907

Scorchers Progress - St James Palace - Errant city cyclist
The Scorchers Progress II - St James Palace, London - An errant city cyclist causing havoc with his fellow road-users. Here the mounted guards around St

Knightsbridge Barracks, London - designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1880s - replaced by new buildings by Sir Basil Spence in 1970. Date: circa 1910s

Tatiana, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova) (18971918) aged five, riding a miniature pony - pictured with a royal attendant. Date: 1902

Boy wishes good cheer to all at Christmas
Wishing good cheer and a Happy Home A young boy getting stuck into liquid Christmas Cheer and hoping the feeling is mutual throughout the household!! Date: 1908

Table salt
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of table salt, artificially coloured by computer

Table salt
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of table salt, artificially coloured by computer

Tineola bisselliella, common or webbing clothes moth model

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