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Pail Collection

Background imagePail Collection: Advertisement for Morses distemper with a decorator lying flat while painting the walls

Advertisement for Morses distemper with a decorator lying flat while painting the walls. Date: c.1924

Background imagePail Collection: Advert / Mackesons Stout

Advert / Mackesons Stout
MACKESONs STOUT Milk stout

Background imagePail Collection: Boy and Sheep

Boy and Sheep
A little boy carring a metal pail of feed, is followed by a hungry sheep!

Background imagePail Collection: Toilet Services, Real Wedgwood Ware, Plate 50

Toilet Services, Real Wedgwood Ware, Plate 50, showing patterned washing bowls, jugs, soap dishes, and a slop pail far too nice to put slops in. Date: circa 1880s

Background imagePail Collection: Farm Stall in St. Jamess Park, London - New Milkstall

Farm Stall in St. Jamess Park, London - New Milkstall
Farm Stall in St. Jamess Park, London - The New Milkstall - " Rus in Urbe" ( the countryside in the city) - latn quote on the card

Background imagePail Collection: Draycott, Cotswold village, Edith Hodgkins, milkmaid

Draycott, Cotswold village, Edith Hodgkins, milkmaid
Draycott, Cotswold village, Edith Hodgkins (later Mrs Brown), milkmaid. Date: 1916

Background imagePail Collection: English Village Well

English Village Well
A mother and child fetch a pail of water from the well in the village of Old Basing, Hampshire. England. Date: 1930s

Background imagePail Collection: Poster, Keep a Pig, save waste and make food, WW2

Poster, Keep a Pig, save waste and make food, WW2
Poster, Keep a Pig, save waste and make food. 1940s

Background imagePail Collection: Illustration, In Nursery-Rhyme Land

Illustration, In Nursery-Rhyme Land - Why, all the people are alive, cried Betty. Date: 1938

Background imagePail Collection: Mrs Furrow the Farmer's Wife

Mrs Furrow the Farmer's Wife

Background imagePail Collection: Miss Furrow the Farmer's Daughter

Miss Furrow the Farmer's Daughter

Background imagePail Collection: Flemish Milkmaid with her dog cart, Brussels, Belgium

Flemish Milkmaid with her dog cart, Brussels, Belgium. Dog carts pulled by two or more dogs were historically used in Belgium and the Netherlands for delivering milk, bread, and other trades

Background imagePail Collection: Market Day in the French Basque Region

Market Day in the French Basque Region
Elderly woman on Market Day in the French Basque Region. Date: circa 1920s

Background imagePail Collection: Original Artwork - Illustration for The Gummys

Original Artwork - Illustration for The Gummys
Original Artwork - Cut-out silhouette illustration for an original book by Iris Chick called The Gummys - fantasy bedtime stories read to a little boy by his mother. Date: circa 1937

Background imagePail Collection: Comic postcard, Man reluctant to milk a cow Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man reluctant to milk a cow Date: 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: Comic postcard, Long-faced cow being milked

Comic postcard, Long-faced cow being milked Date: 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: Comic postcard, Difficulty milking a cow Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Difficulty milking a cow Date: 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: Comic postcard, milking a cow Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, milking a cow Date: 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: Comic postcard, milking a cow

Comic postcard, milking a cow Date: 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: Comic postcard, Little girl paddling at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl paddling at the seaside Date: 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: Comic postcard, Man chased by cow Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, Man chased by cow Date: circa 1918

Background imagePail Collection: Comic postcard, Cowkeepers daughter

Comic postcard, Cowkeepers daughter Date: 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: A little boy and little girl dressed up as nursery rhyme characters, Jack and Jill

A little boy and little girl dressed up as nursery rhyme characters, Jack and Jill. Date: c.1920

Background imagePail Collection: Victorian scrap, an Irish milkmaid

Victorian scrap, an Irish milkmaid, with a yoke, two pails and a churn. circa 1890

Background imagePail Collection: Cat and pail of milk, Mr Louis Wain at Home

Cat and pail of milk, Mr Louis Wain at Home. 1897

Background imagePail Collection: Mrs Libbys Milk

Mrs Libbys Milk
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Mrs Libbys Milk. circa 1950s

Background imagePail Collection: Ice service, ice pail, butter dish, saladbowl with helpers

Ice service, ice pail, butter dish, saladbowl with helpers. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Background imagePail Collection: Milkmaid of Pessac, Bordeaux, France, 19th century

Milkmaid of Pessac, Bordeaux, France, 19th century. She holds two large milk pails and a cup, wears a check bandanna, fichu, apron, and petticoat

Background imagePail Collection: Milkmaid of Gelderland, Netherlands, 19th century

Milkmaid of Gelderland, Netherlands, 19th century. Her bonnet trimmed with lace and long ribbons to tie it. Her fichu and jacket are decorated with flowers, with check apron and striped petticoat

Background imagePail Collection: Milkmaid of Oberhasli, Switzerland, 19th century

Milkmaid of Oberhasli, Switzerland, 19th century
Married milkmaid of Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, 19th century

Background imagePail Collection: Milkmaid of Bern, Switzerland, 19th century

Milkmaid of Bern, Switzerland, 19th century. She wears a toquet of lace made from horsehair, and carries a wooden pail with lid

Background imagePail Collection: Cooper hammering a metal hoop on a hogshead barrel

Cooper hammering a metal hoop on a hogshead barrel. On the walls are tools such as saws, axe, spoke-shave, stock and bit, adze and auger

Background imagePail Collection: Advert, Brown & Co, Glasgow, Scotland

Advert, Brown & Co, Glasgow, Scotland
Advert for Brown & Co, Iron Packaging, Cisterns, Casks, Pails etc, Wigton Street, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Background imagePail Collection: Jack and Jill went up the Hill by Agnes Richardson

Jack and Jill went up the Hill by Agnes Richardson

Background imagePail Collection: Cries of Paris - water carrier

Cries of Paris - water carrier

Background imagePail Collection: Peasant woman with pail, Auvergne, France

Peasant woman with pail, Auvergne, France
Peasant woman with pail, standing in an open doorway, Auvergne, Central France. Date: 1922

Background imagePail Collection: Children with tree and holly on a Christmas postcard

Children with tree and holly on a Christmas postcard
Children in the snow with tree and holly on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Background imagePail Collection: Milkmaid

Milkmaid. Pretty young lady in floral apron and bonnet carrying pail of milk. Illustration from the Ladies Home Journal March 1923. Artist anon. Date: 1928

Background imagePail Collection: To Thal, Switzerland

To Thal, Switzerland - couple walking along a mountain pass. late 19th century

Background imagePail Collection: Milkmaid, 1890s

Milkmaid, 1890s
Milkmaid with milking stool and pail, 1890s Date: 1890s

Background imagePail Collection: Many Folk Misfitz - England - English Girl

Many Folk Misfitz - England - English Girl. early 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: Child Plays in Water Date: 1948

Child Plays in Water Date: 1948

Background imagePail Collection: Bull with Pail Date: 1893

Bull with Pail Date: 1893

Background imagePail Collection: MILKMAID AT STILE

MILKMAID AT STILE
A milkmaid at the stile with milking stool and pail. (the L is for Lucy) Date: 1867

Background imagePail Collection: SOCIAL / CHILDREN / PAIL 20C

SOCIAL / CHILDREN / PAIL 20C
Two children and a baby going home with a pail Date: 1909

Background imagePail Collection: The nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill

The nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after. Date: c. 1930

Background imagePail Collection: Dutch Milkmaid

Dutch Milkmaid
Terrific photographic postcard of a Dutch Milkmaid, with two large milk pails supported by a wooden yolk across her shoulders. Date: circa 1910s

Background imagePail Collection: Clan Mac Nicol

Clan Mac Nicol
Clan MAC NICOL a young barefoot woman is on her way to the burn to fetch water in her wooden pail

Background imagePail Collection: Cartoon on postcard, Kitchener news, WW1

Cartoon on postcard, Kitchener news, WW1
Cartoon on a postcard, showing a skinny woman in the early stages of the First World War, reading a news bulletin: Kitchener gets half a million men in a month

Background imagePail Collection: Nursery Rhymes -- Jack and Jill, Polly Flinders

Nursery Rhymes -- Jack and Jill, Polly Flinders
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- Jack and Jill falling down the hill. Below -- Little Polly Flinders sitting among the cinders. Date: early 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: New Compensation Act - 1906 - Stableboy kicked in stable

New Compensation Act - 1906 - Stableboy kicked in stable
" The New Compensation Act" - " Hurroo! Oim kicked to Death, Be Gob

Background imagePail Collection: Spooky Alley

Spooky Alley
A rather eerie courtway in Leicester.. but who (or what?) lurks in the shadows... ?

Background imagePail Collection: Jack and Jill / Andre

Jack and Jill / Andre
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after

Background imagePail Collection: Woman in national costume, Mundal, Norway

Woman in national costume, Mundal, Norway. She is carrying two milk pails with a yoke across her shoulders. The costume was worn by most people on Sundays and also as a uniform by hotel waitresses

Background imagePail Collection: Women WW1 Work Milk Woman

Women WW1 Work Milk Woman
Captioned, Womans Work in War Time, a young girl carries a lidded pail to deliver milk. Date: circa 1917

Background imagePail Collection: The Round Game of Happy Families, Mrs Pumps

The Round Game of Happy Families, Mrs Pumps
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Mrs Pumps the Milkmans Wife. circa 1910

Background imagePail Collection: The Round Game of Happy Families, Mr Pumps

The Round Game of Happy Families, Mr Pumps
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Mr Pumps the Milkman. circa 1910

Background imagePail Collection: The Round Game of Happy Families, Miss Pumps

The Round Game of Happy Families, Miss Pumps
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Miss Pumps the Milkmans Daughter. circa 1910

Background imagePail Collection: White earthenware, Plate 59

White earthenware, Plate 59, showing dishes, serving dishes, jugs, bowls and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Background imagePail Collection: Little Folk Misfitz - Jack and Jill

Little Folk Misfitz - Jack and Jill. Date: circa 1910

Background imagePail Collection: Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Churn

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Churn the Milkmans Son. late 19th century

Background imagePail Collection: Taking Milk Home

Taking Milk Home
A man and a boy taking home the milk in their car! Date: 1930s

Background imagePail Collection: SPILT MILK

SPILT MILK
An embarrassed cow looks the other way as a milkmaid throws a bucket of milk over a steel girder, perhaps a mock opening ceremony in the USA? Still, no use crying over spilt milk... Date: 1930s

Background imagePail Collection: Milking Time

Milking Time
Milking time Date: early 19th century

Background imagePail Collection: Burns Farm Ellisland

Burns Farm Ellisland
ROBERT BURNS Scottish poets farm at Ellisland, on the River Nith, near Dumfries Date: 1759 - 1796

Background imagePail Collection: Scene on a dairy farm, Netherlands

Scene on a dairy farm, Netherlands. Date: early 20th century

Background imagePail Collection: Dutch bourgeoise housewife with milk pail

Dutch bourgeoise housewife with milk pail and page, 17th century, . From a painting by Gabriel Metzu. Handcolored illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L

Background imagePail Collection: Two ladies sitting on what appears to be a beach

Two ladies sitting on what appears to be a beach
Black and white (appears sepia in some lights). Two ladies sitting on what appears to be a beach in patterned dresses and boater hats, with a young boy carrying a pail of sand towards them

Background imagePail Collection: No use crying over Spilt Milk

No use crying over Spilt Milk
Black and white. Boy carrying a hamper and pitchfork, and two girls (one is holding flowers behind her back). They are standing around a pail of spilt milk on a leafy pathway

Background imagePail Collection: Siege of Antwerp, World War One, 1914 - animals looked after

Siege of Antwerp, World War One, 1914 - animals looked after
The Siege of Antwerp, Belgium, early in the First World War - thought for beast as well as man. Although the people were running short of water, they allowed this dog to have his drink from the pail

Background imagePail Collection: The Milkwoman on Her Rounds

The Milkwoman on Her Rounds
This photograph, specially taken for The Sphere, shows a milkwoman, wearing a smock and breeches and a leather pouch and carrying a milk pail

Background imagePail Collection: Two young Moroccan Girls with buckets on their heads

Two young Moroccan Girls with buckets on their heads Date: circa 1930s

Background imagePail Collection: Thessaloniki, Greece - Milk Seller

Thessaloniki, Greece - Milk Seller. Date: circa 1910s

Background imagePail Collection: Nursery Tale - The Fairy Fountain - Jack and Jill

Nursery Tale - The Fairy Fountain - Jack and Jill reach the water source at the summit of the hill - their downfall is imminent... Date: 1880

Background imagePail Collection: Design with milkmaid, animals and birds

Design with milkmaid, animals and birds. Watercolour on detail paper. Silver Studio. 1950

Background imagePail Collection: HOOCK, Pieter Cornelisz (1629-1684). Woman and

HOOCK, Pieter Cornelisz (1629-1684). Woman and a Maid With a Pail. ca. 1660. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum

Background imagePail Collection: Jack and Jill went up the hill

Jack and Jill went up the hill

Background imagePail Collection: The full dinner-pail

The full dinner-pail

Background imagePail Collection: Your wartime duty! Don t waste water Do not use hose for was

Your wartime duty! Don t waste water Do not use hose for washing your automobile. Do use water from a pail

Background imagePail Collection: Idealised Victorian shepherdess

Idealised Victorian shepherdess
An idealised Victorian shepherdess with a lamb and a horned sheep. (3 of 6) Date: 19th century

Background imagePail Collection: The fullest dinner pail

The fullest dinner pail. Illustration shows a man labeled Workingman bent over under the weight of an enormous dinner pail labeled Tariff for Graft Only. Date 1908 May 27. The fullest dinner pail

Background imagePail Collection: A man and woman of Bahaharana, Africa

A man and woman of Bahaharana, Africa
Plate entitled A man and woman of Bahaharana in the dress of the country. He carries a large club and she carries a bucket

Background imagePail Collection: A Milkwoman - Lima, Peru

A Milkwoman - Lima, Peru Date: 1906

Background imagePail Collection: Milkmaid and Milk Seller at Hennebont, Brittany

Milkmaid and Milk Seller at Hennebont, Brittany
Milkmaid and Milk Seller at Hennebont, in the Morbihan department of Brittany, France. Date: circa 1910s



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