Maids Collection (page 2)

Silhouette
Busy Little Maids sewing a guilt. Artist: H G C Marsh Lambert Date: 1921

Banking on Art by Kippa. 1930

Four girls on a cutout greetings card -- Four little maids are we. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

The Archetypal Housemaid. Date: 1901

The maids at St Peter?s Hospital
A large group of maids in mob caps and two orderlies with matron at centre. Reverse reads The maids at St Peters Hospital Date: 1922-26

Advert for Ewarts Geyser hot water 1928
Hot water instantly night or day, maid bringing clean towels to her mistress, who is sitting at the edge of the bath. Date: 1928

Playing bucklers, maids dancing for garlands. Popular English game using small metal shield and weapon, similar to fencing. Date: 16th century

LONDON MILK MAID / 1798
A London milkmaid cries Milk below maids! Date: 1798

TWO OLD MAIDS 1842
Two old maids gossip over a pot of tea, while the poodle and the parrot try to attract their attention Date: 1842

MAID WASHES LADYS FEET
A maid dries her mistresss feet after washing them

LACING UP
A young lady is laced into her ball gown by her maid while mama watches approvingly Date: circa 1860

MAID & MISTRESS MAID & MISTRESS
A maid and her mistress consider an undergarment Date: 1927

The Mousme (The Maids of Japan), Royal Theatre, Portsmouth, previously at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London. 1910s

German Bar Maids
Two buxom German women in traditional costume, bearing tankards of fine German beer! Date: 1930s

A British maid
A maid, dressed in a crisp white apron, stands in front of the property where she works. c. 1910

Little girl on a cutout greetings card
Little girl (one of four) in pink and white costume on a cutout greetings card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Girls school at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
A group of girls with their maid washing and grinding harvest at the girls school at Fianarantsoa (meaning good education ), Madagascar. Date: circa 1907

Zelica, a character in Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore
Zelica - But there was one, among the chosen Maids, Who d blush d behind the gallerys silken shades - a character in The Veiled Prophet, Lalla Rookh, a long narrative poem by Thomas Moore

Old Maid card game - Old Maid and her parrot. circa 1950s

Old Maid / Coquette Dream
The Old Coquettes Dream: an old maid remembers how nice it was to be the centre of attention... Date: circa 1835

The Man from Toronto by Douglas Murray
Promotional postcard for The Man From Toronto by Douglas Murray. First produced Royalty Theatre, 30th May 1918. The eponymous man is fascinated by a lady who masquerades as her maid to be sure of

The Waste of it! by John Hassall
Maid feeling exhausted after running up and down with jugs of water instead of using the tap! Date: 1906

Advert for Garroulds uniforms for maids 1937
Practical house for service uniforms, available from Garrould s, Edgeware Road, London. 1937

Blue Maids Orphan Asylum, Bristol
The Blue Maids Orphan Asylum at Hooks Mills, Bristol. Date: circa 1907

Queen Charlottes Ball, 1934
The ceremony of cutting the cake performed by HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught (formerly Princess Alexandra of Fife), at Queen Charlottes Ball

Dairymaids 1910
Posed women working in a dairy 1910. Date: 1910

1920s frigidaire

Queen Elizabeth II arrives at the Abbey for Coronation, 1953
Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by her Maids of Honour alights from the golden State Coach on arriving at Westminster Abbey for her Coronation in June 1953

Hospital Ward Maids
A nurse wheels a patient forward in his metal bed so that the daily Ward Maids can clean and polish the floors at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, England

Maid collecting water. 1890

Song, The Maids Petition
Sheet music for a song entitled The Maids Petition. 18th century

Elizabethan servants polishing saucepans

English bride, brides maid and flower girl in the garden
English bride, bride?s maid and flower girl in the garden wedding reception in Nottingham. Brides maids and flower girl in pale blue traditional dresses of the period. Date: 1970s

The Right Way to Speak to Maids - TMC house telephones
Advertisement for TMC House Telephones, particularly useful when your house is so vast you need to dole out instructions to the servants from another wing. Date: 1923

Modes Pour Rire by Charles Vernier -- A woman (left) asks her ladys maid (right) whether the crinoline she has brought will be full enough. She doesn t want to be ridiculed for being too flat

Mrs Ryans Seacliffe Tea Rooms Kilkeel - a view of the front of the building above with people and maids, on the lawn sitting at tables having tea, looking at the camera

Book cover, Nursery Songs and Rhymes
Book cover in blue and silver, A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, edited bys Baring-Gould, with illustrations by members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A J Gaskin

Illustration, Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Illustration (possibly the frontispiece), Mary Mary Quite Contrary how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Date: 1895

Little Folk Misfitz - Polly Put the Kettle On. circa 1910

Man with two women on a comic card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Butchers boy and housemaid on a comic Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Policeman and housemaid on a comic Christmas card. circa 1890s

Going Downstairs
An Edwardian Ladys Maid rushes downstairs at her mistresss beck and call. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Social / Market Return 18C
Country maids returning from market with their purchases Date: circa 1790

The marriage of King Harold II
The marriage of Saxon King Harold II with Aldyth (Ealdgyth), widow of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and sister to Edwin and Morcar. Date: 1066

Phyllis Dare (1890 1975), English actress, in the role of Peggy in The Dairy Maids Date: 1900s

Laundry of Savoy Hotel
Working in the laundry of the Savoy Hotel, London. Date: early 1930s

Wearer and Maker 1884
Servant puts the finishing touches to her mistresses dress. Date: 1884

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