Pegs Collection

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

NINE MANs MORRIS 2 / 2
A nine mans morris board, with pegs (2 of 2)

DRYING DISMAL DESMOND
A little girl pegs out her freshly washed Dismal Desmond toy dalmatian dog to dry on the washing line in her back yard! Date: early 1930s

Washing Day, by Ethel Parkinson. A little Dutch girl hangs out the washing on a windy day, while a little boy holds a full basket of clothes for her

A housewife with a mouthful of clothes pegs strikes a pose as she hangs out the washing! Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Comic postcard, Women and washing line Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, A blow on the Hindenburg Line, WW1 - a satirical comment on the German defensive position on the Western Front, showing a German soldier with a line of washing. Date: circa 1916-1917

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The Sun is Out
The verse on the card contains the lines Coupon trouble grows - shes naught to dry - but pegs. Clothes rationing began in June 1941 and did not end until 1949

SOCIAL / WASHING DAY 1920
Washing day in a workmans home: maman bends over the tub, her elder daughter pegs out the washing, the younger children blow bubbles Date: circa 1920

WASHING DAY IN FRANCE
Washing day in a French home, maman bends over the tub, her elder daughter pegs out the washing, the younger enfants blow bubbles Date: circa 1920

Washing line Stoke
Washing on a clothes line in a back yard, Stoke on Trent, England. Date: 1987

Japanese barge-dweller hanging out her laundry
Japanese barge-dweller - Tokyo, Japan hanging out her laundry. Date: 1930s

Page of Victorian adverts for household items 1888
Selection page of Victorian household hardware items for everyday use. 1888

WW1 Recruitment Poster
Come Now - Your arms, uniform and accoutrements are ready waiting for you (quotation from Lord Kitchener at the Guildhall, July 1915) - Be honest with yourself

Gypsy boys making pegs, near Pontypool, South Wales
Two small gypsy boys making pegs, near Pontypool, South Wales

Patients playing bar billiards, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing three patients, two in dressing gown and pyjamas, one in shirt and trousers, playing bar billiards in a rest room

News vendor poster, Pegs Paper
News vendor stand poster, Pegs Paper -- How Could She Know? circa 1927

Bronze Age. Several womens ornaments and some bronze figure
Prehistory. Bronze Age. Several womens ornaments and some bronze figures. Are furnished with pegs. C. 800 BC. Fardal, central Jutland. Denmark. Museum of Denmark. Copenhaguen

Dryden / Washing Lambs / 50
A girl uses Persil washing powder to keep her lambs white - she then pegs them out to dry on the washing line! Date: 1930s

Little girl hanging out washing, by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in red hanging out the washing, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1920s

Prairie wigwam - home to an indigenous Mother and Uncle
Prairie wigwam - home to the indigenous mans Mother and Uncle, both of whom peep out of suitable holes in the decorated canvas covering. It looks as if the Uncle has already hit the bottle

Chinese Fiddles - Two kinds of Saw Chine or Chinese fiddles are shown here. The first is a Saw Duang, identified by the jewels around one of th pegs

Doggy Laundress
A dog does the laundry, pegging out a row of freshly washed dolls on a washing line. Date: early 1930s

Climbing Foothold
Climbing a sheer rock face should not be attempted without appropriate boots and socks, pegs and safety ropes. Date: 1930s

Putting up a Marquee
Workmen erecting a fairground marquee. Date: early 1930s

Group of Brecknockshire soldiers at an army camp
A large group of soldiers belonging to the Brecknockshire Battalion at an army camp, surrounded by their tents

Leaving the room with finesse
Illustration showing an elegant and slightly haughty woman leaving a room through the door, putting on her hat and grabbing her coat as she sweeps away, casting a glance backwards

Drying Machine
Several engravings illustrating an ingenious device for drying clothes; a forerunner of the fold-up telescopic clothes drier used instead of a line and pegs

Social / Washing Day 19C
Pegging out the washing in the English countryside

NINE MANs MORRIS 1 / 2
A nine mans morris board, with pegs (1 of 2)

Twin puppies and washing line
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, are attracted to a row of clothes flapping on the washing line

Family on Washing Day
A French blanchisseuse leans over the tub while her daughter pegs things out to dry and her little boy blows bubbles

Changing in Bathing Hut
Two girls strip in a hut which has not only a mirror and pegs but also a desk and chair in case they feel like writing postcards or a poem about the sea

Buying Clothes Pegs
Buying clothes-pegs and washing-lines from gipsies going from house to house

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