Household Gallery

Exhausted Housewife

A young overworked housewife or stressed out working woman with a sore neck, lies back in a comfortable armchair and puts her feet up on a leather footstool. Date: early 1930s

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1930s, Armchair, Back, Comfortable, Crick, Early, Exhausted, Feet, Footstool, Historical, History, Household, Housewife, Housewives, Leather, Lies, Neck, Overworked, Puts, Sore, Stress, Stressed, Tiredness, Woman, Working, Young

Electric ceiling pendant & bracket lights 1929

A variety of ceiling and wall light fittings, two way bracket light, candelabra, ceiling light with opaque opal panes hanging with brass or bronze chains, and a strange light with loose material, available from the electrical department at Harrods. Date: 1929

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1920s, 1929, 20s, Advert, Advertisement, Advertising, Bracket, Brackets, Brass, Candelabra, Catalogue, Ceiling, Electric, Electrical, Firelight, Furniture, Harrod, Harrods, Household, Light, Lighting, Lights, Opal, Page, Price, Prices, Sconce, Selection, Twenties, Wall

Advert for Maple & Co drawing-room suite 1897

Amersham, drawing-room suits, consisting of settee, two easy, four occasional and two chalet chairs in carved dark mahogany, well upholstered in rich silk tapestry.
1897

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1890s, 1897, Advert, Advertisement, Advertising, Amersham, Chair, Chairs, Curtains, Dado, Drapery, Drawing, Furnising, Furniture, Hanging, Household, Item, Items, Maple, Pictures, Plant, Potted, Rail, Room, Rooms, Scalloped, Settee, Stand, Suite, Suites, Urn, Urns, Victorian, Wood, Wooden