Housewife Collection

English Rose kitchen advert, woman with desserts
Advertisement for English Rose Kitchen Equipment featuring a young housewife with a tea trolley and a selection of desserts, cakes and tea. Date: 1952

A glamorous female model with her trusty Goblin Teasmade
A stylish female model wakes up fresh-faced and ready now to face the day thanks to a few sips from a hearty brew prepared by her faithful bedside Goblin Teasmade. How Delicious! Date: 1960s

Cover for Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Date: circa 1927

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). Peasant girl hanging clothes to
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). French painter. Impressionism. Peasant girl hanging clothes to dry (1881). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhgen. Denmark

Advertisement for the Western Electric vacuum cleaner with a women patiently cleaning the carpet around her snoozing husband. Lets hope that cigarette falls into his lap and wakes him up. Date: c.1924

1930s woman cooking in her kitchen
A woman stands at a kitchen pantry or dresser trying out new recipes. Attached to the work service is a hand operated meat mincer. Date: c.1930

Advert for English Rose kitchens 1952
Young housewife cooking in her new English Rose fitted kitchen. Comes with a cause of softglow worktop colours, scarlet red, steel blue and amulet green. Date: 1952

Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Home made with Triplex! Date: circa 1920s

Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Rootes Motors Limited brochure
Front cover of a Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Rootes Motors Limited brochure - " A Better Buy - because they re better built" 1960

Discreet Bread Bin
A curtain hung across a disused kitchen range is a discreet way to store your bread in its bread bin. Date: 1930s

Client - W M Hollins - Girl in Striped blouse biting apple
Client - W M Hollins - possibly for Housewife or Dairymaid magazines - shoot on August16, 1943. Date: 1943

The Rolls Rapide Twin Tub washing machine - look what you get! A bargain at 39 guineas! Date: 1961

Dip in the morning and Dip at Night. A housewife seems to be gaining a lot more personal pleasure from her morning soak than her evening with her soak who is not performing to quite her

Woman at a kitchen sink, probably 1930s

Woman Baking - Illustration of a housewife taking a pie from the oven. Date: 1928

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

Painting Linoleum - Smartly dressed housewife applying a protective coating onto a linoleum-covered kitchen floor while her children look on. Date: 1923

Hoovering - Housewife hoovering a floor surface. Date: 1923

Floor Polishing - Housewife busy polishing the hall floor. Artist: Anon. Date: 1928

Manchester housewife switches on the lights on Copenhagen's
A competition winner: Manchester housewife prepares to switch on the lights on Copenhagen's Christmas tree. Date: circa 1960

Hudson's Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for R. S. Hudson Limited, which shows a hooded girl leaning on a wall, smiling, with a basket containing a packet of Hudson's soap. Text reads

Advert for Min Cream Polish. Supply of the product was restricted during the war. Date: 1943

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

Comic Postcard - Surprise at return of sober husband
Comic Postcard - A housewife explaining her surprise to a Policeman that her husband has returned home sober - there MUST be something suspicious...!!! Date: circa 1910

Dame Edna Everage and Larry Hagman on a chat show
Comic personality, Melbourne housewife and superstar (or gigastar) Dame Edna Everage (played by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries, b 1934) with the American actor Larry Hagman (b 1931)

Pastry making - Slit On Top 1907
Make a slit in the top to let the steam escape. Date: 1907

Pastry making - Adding Decoration 1907
Add a few pastry leaves for Decoration. Date: 1907

Trim the edge of the tart with share knife. Date: 1907

Rub lightly together with the finger tips, let the air into it. Date: 1907

FRYING FOOD 1960S
A young housewife fries food in a frying pan. But remember the old motto the more you fry the sooner you die'! Date: 1960s

A housewife with a mouthful of clothes pegs strikes a pose as she hangs out the washing! Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Comic postcard, Two women listen to radio - Housewives Choice Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman and door-to-door salesman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Vicar and housewife Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman talking about marriage. He said it would be like the Garden of Eden when we were married. So it is - nothing to wear and expecting to get kicked out any minute

Housewives Conference, 1947
Page from The Sphere, 20 September 1947 reporting on the Housewives League Meeting at Central Hall

Brochure cover for Rolls Twin Tub washing machines, featuring the smiling face of a happy early 1960s housewife... Date: 1961

W. V. S. Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven
A W.V.S. (Womens Voluntary Service) Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven out of bricks, a piece of metal plate and a broken piece of drainpipe. Date: circa 1941

No maid, no matter! 1943
No maid, no matter! Serious comic strip showing labour-saving of a housewife who does all her own work, 1943. Date: 1943

Promotional voucher, Daz Washing Powder, 5d off a large or giant packet, July 1963. 1963

Woman pressing a seam under a damp cloth
Woman using a hot iron to press a seam under a damp cloth. Date: circa 1940

Woman tacking a hem before stitching it
Woman tacking a hem with tacking cotton before stitching it. Date: circa 1940

Advert for Sapolio cleaning soap 1887
Bar of soap Sapolio, and a scrubbing brush, helped this housewife keep her floors in proper shape! Date: 1887

Putting Away Leftovers Date: 1948

LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Full length portrait of a woman looking back over her shoulder at the camera with an angry look on her face. Date: mid 1960s

HOUSEWIFES TEA BREAK
A tired housewife in an apron sits on a chair, frowning. Is she not entitled to a tea break? Date: late 1960s

WASHING UP IN A BOWL
A housewife carefully washing up her china in an enamel bowl, with plenty of Lux soap suds! Date: 1930s

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