Housework Collection

Poster advertising Sunlight Soap -- for rest and leisure. Date: early 20th century

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

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

Woman at a kitchen sink, probably 1930s

Advert for Hoover, World's Best Vacuum Cleaner Date: 1947

Advert, Spring Cleaning, Hoover Vacuum Cleaner
Advert, Spring Cleaning, Hoover vacuum cleaner Date: 1948

Advert, Hoover vacuum cleaner
Advert, ... and please bring Mummy a new Hoover - children hang up their Christmas stockings Date: 1949

Advert, Hoover Electric Washing Machine
Advert for Hoover Electric Washing Machine Date: 1949

Advertising stamp, Mary Ann electric vacuum cleaner Date: 1934

Advert, The New Hoover Vacuum Cleaner - Try Them All! Date: 1929

Australian Gas Light Company Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for The Australian Gas Light Company, the image shows a woman doing household chores in an all-gas home

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

Girls learning how to do laundry correctly, maybe to do domestic work when leaving the orphanage. Date: 1900

Local Women fetching drinking water from a well - Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1901

Comic postcard, Little girl scrubbing the front step Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman on holiday, in the sea, then home again, doing the washing Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman on holiday, then home again - Make the most of it (in English and French) Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman in deckchair at the seaside, dreaming of all the housework she isn t having to do Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Maidservant and dog Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl doing the housework Date: circa 1918

A smiling young woman in a headscarf and apron washing up or preparing food in a kitchen or scullery. Tea towels hang from the airer above, assorted ladles and pans are close to hand

Advert, Old Dutch Cleaner -- woman cleaning in the kitchen. 1922

Advert, Bon Ami cleaning and polishing cake and powder. 1922

Advert, Johnsons Polishing Wax Advert, Johnsons Polishing Wax
Advert, Johnsons Polishing Wax. 1926

The Useful Little Maid by Frances Brundage. 1898

Advert for Zebra Fire Grate Polish. 1902

Wife of a Paris workman, doing her housework Date: 1850

Moody Young Teen Date: 1944

Twin Girls Do Washing Date: 1948

Family Does Laundry Date: 1948

Doing the Dishes Date: 1947

Boy Brushing Teeth Date: 1938

Advert for Magnet Electric cleaner 1929
Advertisement for a Magnet, vacuum clear, English made, guaranteed, well made and reliable. Date: 1929

DOMESTIC COMMUNISM
COMMUNISM IN THE HOME The servants share the familys clothes and possessions, the ladies take part in the housework... Date: 1850

Cleaner mops the entrance of the Naval Museum, Venice
A cleaner mops the entrance of the Naval Museum, Venice, Italy. Anchor from the battleship SMS Tegetthoff Date: 2013

Woman shakes the dirt off a pair of trainers, Venice
Venice - Rio Greci looking towards the Ponte de la Pieta. San Giorgio Maggiore in distance. A woman on her balcony shakes the dirt off a pair of trainers Date: 2013

Wash day River Cavado, Portugal
A woman pegs out her washing in her tide flooded garden on the banks of the River Cavado, Portugal. first published The Sunday Times 1989 Date: 1989

Apartment balconies, Lisbon
A woman hangs out the washing from a small balcony in a block of old apartments with decorative iron balcony railings, Lisbon, Portugal. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Woman using a heart-shaped iron on a Valentine card. Date: early 20th century

The Vacuum - A Masterpiece by H. M. Bateman
Page 1 of 4. Brilliant sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman depicting a man asking his maid to have a go at a vacuum cleaner, only to find he sucks up everything in his path. Date: 1920

When Women Vote Washing day. Mans worst nightmare - the housework is his domain, pictured washing his own shirts whilst holding the screaming baby. His duties are spelled out on a chart on the wall

A maid-of-all-work sweeps a step, c. 1900
A rather resentful looking maid-of-all-work sweeps a step, c. 1900 Date: c. 1900

Stationery, Hadfields Ironmongers, Congleton, Cheshire
O-Cedar Mop and Polish advertisement on Hadfields Ironmongers printed stationery, used here as a receipt with handwritten details. circa 1920

Starr Woods Annual The Snark - ironing
Front cover of Starr Woods Annual, The Snark, Summer 1928, featuring an illustration of a flapper girl with hair severely cropped and very short skirts

Kittens playing with a vacuum cleaner hose
Unusual Friends - kittens playing with a vacuum cleaner hose. 1950s

A stout, jolly housewifes enjoys a mid-morning cup of tea and a chat with her cat before getting on with her daily chores

Old Maid card game - Mrs Fox Washes Up. circa 1950s

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