Mop Collection

Saint Veronica
SAINT VERONICA she used her handkerchief to mop Jesuss brow as he carried his cross, and miraculously the image of his features was imprinted on it !

Ox roasting at Stratford-upon-Avon Mop Fair
Scene showing an ox being roasted at the Stratford upon Avon annual Mop Fair, Warwickshire. Farm workers, labourers, servants and some craftsmen would work for their employer from October to October

Strong Cheese repels diner and waiter
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Cheese: " Supply much stronger, but very little demand." This commodities phrasiology is illustrated by a waiter struggling to cope

Forty Winks by C. E. Wilson
A dear old lady in a mop cap, spectacles and a tartan shawl has fallen asleep at a table in the middle of reading a newspaper and sewing a patchwork quilt

Culloden Battlefield
After the battle : Royal soldiers mop up the remnants of the Pretenders forces on Drummossie Moor : the savage reprisals earned Cumberland the sobriquet of Butcher

Scrubing Doorstep / 1920S
A Charwoman, who goes to work in her motorcycle and side car, kneels whilst scrubbing the steps of no. 47

Cleaning Day, by Ethel Parkinson. A little Dutch girl wields a mop, while a little boy kneels down and scrubs the floor

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

Comic postcard, council worker Date: 20th century

Husband holding off his angry wife with mop. A bottle of gin on the windowsill and a sign reading Conjugal Felicity a Romance. A Stag at Bay

Two lovers in a parlour disturbed by prying maids moving glasses in a cupboard. Miseries Domestic. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Little Women - Mop the dog lying on his back
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Mop the dog lying on his back, a sign that he is in need of food. 1880

Stratford-upon-Avon, Mop Fair 1899
Standing for Hire, Stratford-upon-Avon, said to be the largest fair in England, regarded by the agricultural class in the district as the chief holiday of the year

The Nose Game - Impulsive Nose A1, Denotes Quick Temper. Date: 1927

Japanese soldier wearing a helmet, kimono, leggings, sandals.. Handcolored woodcut from Auguste Wahlens Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World, Brussels, 1845

GIFTS FOR OLD COTTAGER
The lady of the manor brings a hamper of goodies to an old cottager on the estate. Date: 1877

Saint Veronica she used her handkerchief to mop Jesuss brow as he carried his cross, and miraculously the image of his features was imprinted on it ! Date: 1st century

A DISTRICT VISITOR
A district visitor making the rounds of her district. Date: circa 1860

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

Mrs Mop the Cleaner
Mrs. Mop, the quintessential charlady, equipped with her pan and brush, mop, squeegy, headscarf and apron on... Date: 1960s

Venezuela - Broom, brush and mop salesman
Venezuela - Mobile Broom, brush and mop salesman, his wares stacked neatly in panniers carried on the flanks of his noble mule steed. Date: circa 1950s

Mother Hubbard by Briton Riviere
Painting by Briton Riviere illustrating the nursery rhyme, Old Mother Hubbard. A young girl in a mop cap goes to open a cupboard door while her Jack Russell terrier waits intently

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

Group of cleaners who won the football pools, with cleaning equipment. Date: circa 1980s

Tabby and white kitten with a mop
Unusual Friends - tabby and white kitten with a mop. 1950s

British Caribbean woman in a jewellery shop in Hong Kong
British Caribbean woman, standing alone by the counter in a jewellery shop in Hong Kong. Chinese?s woman with a mop is at the back of the image. Man in blue shirt back to camera far left

Valentine card, girl with fan. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Water the Turncocks Wife. late 19th century

Housemaid
Young girl with a mop dressed in the housemaids clothes. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: circa 1908

Shop assistant in Morrisons supermarket, Eccles
A shop assistant in Morrisons supermarket, Eccles, holds up a washing up mop for a price check. Date: circa 1980

Cover design, Womans Pictorial
Cover design, Dressing Up, by M Kemp Welch, Womans Pictorial magazine, 21 June 1924. Depicting a girl wearing improvised fancy dress. With items by Kitty McKane, Fannie Kilbourne and Gilbert Frankau

American New Years Card - Young boy striding into the future Date: circa 1930s

Advice to would-be brides - The housework ahead
Advice to ladies about to be married - To get used to house-work! Try a few weeks Charing. The sender of this card has added the waggish line: " Hope you won t grease the stairs for me

Spring-Cleaning in the Library
A maid gets distracted by books and newspapers in a library. Date: 1923

Mrs Mop Sweeps Up
Good old Mrs Mop, always handy with a dustpan and brush! Date: 1960s

Young Woman by George Ranstead
Drawing on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps, of a young, pretty woman wearing a mop cap style hat. circa 1916

Who wears the Trousers?
With you... Who wears the Trousers? Date: 1902

Mrs Balchristie
Fancy dress costume idea from 1884 for Mrs Balchristie, a character from Sir Walter Scotts Heart of Midlothian. The costume comprises a dark dress, plain skirt, low square bodice

The Village Conjuror
A small boy impresses a group of children and their nurse, by balancing a mop on the end of his chin

Gas Council advertisement 1954
Advertisement by the Gas Council stressing that the gas industry makes the best use of the nations coal, allowing busy housewives the luxury of instant hot water with Mr Therms Sink Water-heaters

Wrights Wall Brush
A handy wall brush with an oscillating head or duster enabling servants to clean cornices, walls or staircases without trying using a ladder

Female Model Cleaner
A stereotypical cleaner leaning on her mop

Rambler Takes a Break
A lady rambler wearing a houndstooth check skirt, shirt style blouse, beret and haversack takes a break to mop her brow

Mopping Linoleum 1940S
A typical housewife wearing a snood, uses a wet mop to clean the kitchen lino

Roasting an Ox 1918
Roasting an ox at Stratford- on-Avon Mop Fair

Louie Freear / 1903
LOUIE FREEAR Actress, in The Lady Slavey

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Mopping Kitchen Floor
A young housewife mops her kitchen linoleum floor, using a squeegy mop

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