Irons Collection

Electrical Magnet appliances 1929
Products from the Harrods catalogue electrical department, including Magnet, irons, kettles, shaving pot, milk sterilizer, coffee percolator, water boiler, toaster, griller and toaster, towel rail

Box Irons Advert / 1888
BOX IRONS heated internally by patent artificial fuel

Manufacture of circuit boards
A complicated multi-component electronic device for manufacturing circuit boards. It consists of a number of miniature soldering irons to attach the electrical components and a magnifying camera

Interior of a working class home 1920
Decor of early 1910s working class home, but photograph taken near the end or just after the First World War, showing carpeted floor, wallpaper, photographs in frames and ornaments on shelving

Female Golfer on Birthday Greetings Postcard - " Tis not within my power to say - How much I wish you joy to-day". Date: circa 1910s

Cartoon, Strike while the Iron's Hot! Women's Suffrage
Political cartoon, Strike while the Iron's Hot! Women's Suffrage Date: 1891

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

A Glamorous Young Lady Golfer. Date: circa 1909

Harrods advert, Hairdressing, Manicure and Chiropody
Harrods Stores advert, Hairdressing, Manicure and Chiropody Departments, Brompton Road, London SW. 1897

Stand of fire irons in polished wrought iron, designed by Ernest Gimson. circa 1910

Advert for Thomas Fletcher gas heating appliances 1889
Page of advertisements of gas-heating appliances. Date: 1889

JAPANESE HOUSEWIFE IRONS
A young Japanese housewife irons her husbands trousers on the floor. This is a daily task, because the Japanese sit on cushions which makes trousers crease badly. Date: 1930s

HOUSEHOLD / IRONING / 1960S
A lady irons her undies Date: 1960s

IRONING TOP HAT 1860
A workman watches with astonishment while a hatter irons a top hat with a heated iron Date: 1860

Sad irons, curling and goffering irons
A selection of home appliances, as featured in a catalogue. A sad iron and stand, a polishing iron, a spirit iron, a hat iron for ironing brims and a Dalli box iron are pictured

Iron stove, 1923
Bradfords pagoda laundry stoves, as featured in a Bradfords catalogue. Up to 34 irons can be heated simultaneously in this way, as pictured in this model. Date: 1923

London Trade Card - William Conaway, Lamp Seller
London Trade Card - William Conaway, near the Bull Head in Dean Street, by St Anns Church, selling lamps, lanterns and irons, and servants to light them. 18th century

Advert for Paz & Silva electrical household items 1913
French electrical household items: light bulbs, ornate chandeliers, irons, curling iron, kettles, Russian coffee maker, radiators, heaters Date: 1913

WW2 poster, Official scrap iron dumps, bring victory nearer. The Ministry of Supply requesting old iron such as ploughshares, railings, fenders and fire irons for converting into munitions

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

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

Nursery Rhymes -- Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders. Date: circa 1920s

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

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

English soprano Miss Sylva (Sylvia) Van Dyck

Female Blacksmith
A German woman blacksmith heating her irons in the furnace. Date: early 1930s

Interior of traditional cottage at Niarbyl, Isle of Man
View of the interior of a traditional cottage at Niarbyl, on the south west coast of the Isle of Man. A kettle sits on the open coal fire, and a pair of bellows hang from a hook on the left

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

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

Inside a traditional miners cottage, Lands End, Cornwall
Scene inside a traditional miners cottage at Lands End, Cornwall. There is a copper kettle by the fireplace, a spinning wheel, two clocks, various pictures, and patterned wallpaper

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

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

Thomas Nashe
THOMAS NASHE English pamphleteer and dramatist

Spensers Gas Lighting
The Spenser system, using gas from ordinary petrol, provides lighting, heating and cooking throughout the house, including irons, towel rail, hot water by day or night

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