Ironing Collection (page 2)

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Drumcondra Magdalen Home, Dublin - Hand Ironing Room
The hand-ironing at the Drumcondra Magdalen (or Magdalene) Home, Dublin. The home was founded in 1858 as a girls reformatory but later became a laundry home for single mothers. Date: Date unknown

Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside Ironing Room
The ironing room at Dr Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside, Essex. Sheets, fresh from the laundry, are ironed in large presses. Date: Date unknown

Day in the life of an average household by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: a day in the life of an average household during the Second World War. Detailing economies that need to be practised in order to keep within the limits of fuel consumption laid down

Gas iron, 1884
A gas iron, 1884. 1884

Gas iron by Littgow, 1861
A lady using Littgows gas iron, Denmark, 1861. Date: 1861

Iron, stand and holder, 1888
An iron, stand and holder, as featured in Mrs. Beetons Household Management, 1888. Date: 1888

Laundry irons, 1923
A selection of irons, as featured in a catalogue: a patent gas iron, a flat iron with galvanised stand, and a convex polishing iron. Date: 1923

Iron heater, 1888
An iron heater, as featured in Mrs. Beetons Household Management, 1888. Date: 1888

Hat iron, 1888
A hat iron, as featured in Mrs. Beetons Household Management, 1888. Date: 1888

Box iron, 1888
A box iron, as featured in Mrs. Beetons Household Management, 1888. Date: 1888

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

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

Why Get Married?
" Why Get Married?" The Joys of Bachelor Life illustrated quite clearly in this humorous German postcard illustration! Date: circa 1910s

Grandma Bear
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Joyce Green Hospital - ironing room
Ironing room for patients bedding in the laundry at the Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital at Long Reach near Dartford. Large rotary irons are used to press sheets

Poster: How to make your household linens last longer

Dunderpate and his mother with the ironing
Dunderpate and his mother at home with the ironing. He asks her how many beans make five. Date: 1938

Ironing room at Brixton Prison. Date: 1862

Young girls ironing in laundry room, Surrey
A group of young girls ironing with flat irons in a laundry room, on a card posted from Thornton Heath, Surrey. Its not clear if the girls are being employed, or are inmates of an institution

Women ironing bed linen
A room full of women ironing what appear to be bed sheets. The location may be an institution such as a workhouse or prison. A supervisor stands right of centre

Ironing Room at Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside
Ironing room at Barnardos Home, Barkingside, Essex. In 1873, Thomas Barnardo set up, a Village Home for Orphan, Neglected and Destitute Girls at Barkingside

Laundry, Holborn Union Workhouse, Mitcham
Female inmates at work in the laundry at the Holborn Union workhouse, Mitcham, Surrey. Some women are using flat irons. Clean washing is piled on a table. A large press stands at the rear

Washing Day by Millicent Sowerby
Two jolly girl guides and a little Brownie hard at work on washing day. One washes clothes in a soap sud filled wash tub while another hangs gleaming sheets on a line

Ironing a Shirt 1911
Photograph demonstrating how to iron a shirt or blouse in 1911

Public Laundry / Klodshans
Ironing in the public laundry

Russian Irons Uniform
Soviet soldier ironing her uniform at an artillery position

Housemaid ironing clothes (Wednesday)
Wednesday: The housemaid irons the clothes

Barnardo Girls Ironing
Barnardo girls learning domestic skills at Dr Barnardos Girls Village Home, Barkingside (on the outskirts of London)

Board School Ironing 19C
Board school girls receive a domestic education that will prepare them for housewifery. Here they are given a lesson in ironing

Heating the Iron / C18
Heating up the iron in an eighteenth century household

Girl with Electric Iron
A girl using an electric iron

Various Household Tasks
Various household tasks, including washing, ironing, hanging laundry out to dry, spinning and sewing

Child Helps Mama Iron
The ironing lesson - a little girl helps her mama with the ironing

French Laundrymaids / 1894
French laundrymaids washing and ironing

Futuristic home, with chores done automatically
A futuristic home, with chores done automatically. The housewifes life will be an easy one in which she can sit back, read the paper and listen to music

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