Housekeeping Collection

Mrs Beeton Front Cover
Front Cover of Mrs Beetons Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping

Poster advertising National Savings (the best British recipe for prosperity), with six recipes from one of the first television chefs, Philip Harben (1906-1970). circa 1940s

Mojave Apache Indian Woman cooking outside her home
Mojave Apache Indian Woman cooking outside her simple shelter made from tree branches cloth and foliage from the surrounding area. Date: circa 1910s

An Altercation
Illustration of an altercation on the high street with a man on a horse. Date: 1930s

Finding a Golf Ball
Illustration of a young golfer recovering his golf ball from a stream. Date: 1933

Open-top Bus
Illustration of passengers alighting from an open-top London bus. Date: 1932

Samuel Johnson & George III
In February 1767 Samuel Johnson was honoured by a private conversation with his Majesty George III in the library at the Queen's House. Date: 1931

Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) English writer, playwright and public speaker. Date: 1931

Noel Coward (1899-1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer. Date: 1931

Joseph Szigeti (1892-1973) Hungarian violinist. Date: 1931

Ella Ivemy, pianist and accompanyist to Nellie Melba (operatic soprano). Date: 1931

Basketful of Washing - Illustration of a young housewife carrying a heavy basketful of washing to put out on the line. Artist: Anon. Date: 1929

Painting & Decorating - Illustration of a smartly dressed housewife mixing paint for application onto the kitchen dresser. Artist: Anon. Date: 1931

Empire Marketing Board - Buy-British advertisement for the Empire Marketing Board Date: 1932

Handbags - Selection of fashionable handbags. Good Housekeeping. July 1931. Date: 1931

Twin Sets - Summer fashions. Good Housekeeping July 1931. Date: 1931

Blazers & Swimwear - Summer fashions. Good Housekeeping. July 1931. Date: 1931

Stylish Ladies - Illustration of two stylish ladies in furs and fashionable hats. Date: 1931

Spring & Summer Outfits - Good Housekeeping July 1933 Date: 1933

Evening Gowns - Good Housekeeping July 1933 Date: 1933

Cartoons showing the activities of a diligent wartime housewife, operating without the assistance of a maid. Date: 1943

Advert for Bovril with vegetables, WW2
Advert for Bovril - puts a smile into vegetables, WW2 Date: 1943

Fashion item, Your Most Important Coupons, WW2 rationing Date: 1943

Glasgow tram publicity campaign to save paper, WW2
Glasgow tram publicity campaign - You can help to win, save your waste paper and cardboard, everyone can help, WW2 Date: 1943

Dining room at teatime with open window Date: 1943

Advert, wartime food, Marmite sandwiches, WW2 Date: 1943

Fashion item, inexpensive women's fashions, WW2 Date: 1942

Advert, Zixt Hand Soap, WW2
Advert, Zixt Hand Soap, featuring a warden doing dirty wartime work, WW2 Date: 1943

Advert, Yardley cosmetics, WW2
Advert, Yardley cosmetics, encouraging women to keep their standards up during WW2 - put your best face forward. Date: 1942

Advert for Tampax, Women are winning the War of Freedom Date: 1942

Advert, Save Paper, Ford Motor Company WW2
Advert, Save Paper, Ford Motor Company, WW2 - call for wartime paper recycling. Date: 1942

Advert, Goodall Backhouse & Co Ltd, Leeds
Advert, food products from Goodall Backhouse & Co Ltd, Leeds, Yorkshire, including egg substitute powder as eggs were scarce during the war. Date: 1942

Cartoon, Mr Briggss Pleasures of Housekeeping -- Irish labourers employed to build a house. Date: circa 1850

Val Gielgud (1900-1981) English actor, writer, director and broadcaster. Date: 1931

Child Eating - Illustration of a young child eating a plate of cereal. Artist: Anon. Date: 1931

Child Drinking - Illustration of a young child drinking from a cup. Artist: Anon. Date: 1931

Good Housekeeping front cover June 1932
Front cover of Good Housekeeping magazine for 1932 with a little boy swept along by the craze for aviation. With toy aeroplane in hand, and his Biggles style flying helmet on his head

Good Housekeeping front cover, December 1933
Front cover of Good Housekeeping magazine for December 1933 depicting a small boy in a dressing gown lighting a candle on a window sill. The things they used to let kids do on their own

Page of advertisements
A page of advertisements from Good Housekeeping magazine, 1928. Included are advertisements for Komo, the up to date metal paste; Permutit

Good Housekeeping front cover, January 1933
Front cover of Good Housekeeping magazine featuring a little girl carefully doing the washing up

Good Housekeeping front cover, December 1931
Front cover of Good Housekeeping magazine with three angelic carol singers dressed in medieval hooded robes. One plays a lute while they all sing from a song sheet

Social / Good Housekeeping
Scene in a middle-class English home: he wears Oxford bags, she lies on the floor and smokes a cigarette in a long holder. Date: 1927

Advertisement for Hotpoint gifts for Christmas
Hotpoint gifts " Your problem - everyones - now is - what can I give". Various useful items for the housewife that will save her time, trouble and expense

Suds, 1930s style
A woman smiles as she stands up to her elbows in soap suds while doing a bit of hand washing in the sink

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

Man in Moon (Anon)
The man who lives in the Moon is busy with his housekeeping

Curry&rice / Housekeeping
The Judges wife watches over the housekeeping

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