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Advert for Peggy SageWartime advert for Peggy Sage Salons and nail polish. Date: 1940
Advert for Min Cream Polish. Supply of the product was restricted during the war. Date: 1943
Advert for Min Piano Polish, promising a beautiful finish in half a minute. Date: 1932
Polishing the motor carA man polishes his gleaming motor car. Date: circa 1940s
Advert, Hall, Dunbar & Co, Paint and Polishes, LeithAdvert for Hall, Dunbar & Co, Paint and Polishes, Leith, Scotland. 1905
Advert for Strathpeffer Spa in Scotland, 1909Page of The Tatler, 1909, featuring adverts for Strathpeffer Spa in the Highlands of Scotland for Peace, Health and Beauty, and Nugget boot polish. Date: 1909
The Brush Salesman. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966
HOUSEHOLD / CLEANINGA maidservant on her hands and knees polishes a floor with beeswax and turpentine Date: 1893
PONIATOWSKI, Josef Antoni, Prince (1763-1813). Polish leader, general, minister of war and army chief, who became a Marshal of the Empire. Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona
Front cover of The Sphere for Christmas 1915, WW1Front cover of The Sphere for Christmas 1915, with two Christmas trees, a photo of a soldier in the snow, and advertisements for the Willett Light, Ronuk polishes, Shoolbreds blankets and linens
View from the Huta Laury in 1840. Engraving. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library
Planetarium with the Copernican system. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM)
SIENKIEWICZ, Henryk (1846-1916). Polish writer, Nobel Prize winner in 1905. Engraving
POLAND. Warsaw. The first World war. Oriental front (1914). Russian soldiers, combatants of the Vistula belonging to the regiments of Siberia, in the streets of Warsaw
FREUNDLICH, Otto. CompositionFREUNDLICH, Otto (1878-1943). Composition. 1930. Geometric abstract art. Oil on canvas. Private Collection
Advertisement for Meltonian Shoe Polishes, supplied by E Brown & Son of Garrick Street, London. They may not be advertising for a while because of the war
Playbill postcard for Alfs ButtonThe most popular manifestation of Orientalism after WWI seems to have been Alfs Button. W.A Darlingtons novel appeared in1920, was filmed (silent movie) the same year
An old sport by Phil May - Elderly HuntsmanA profile portrait by Phil May entitled An Old Sport. He appears to be polishing his monacle. Date: 1894
Furniture maker - Local Egyptian artisan, CairoFurniture maker, adding bone inlay to an octagonal table - Local Egyptian artisan, Cairo. Date: circa 1910s
Shoeblack & CabbyShoeblack polishing a Cabbys shoes. Date: circa 1910
Little girl polishing her Fathers boots - studio portrait. Date: circa 1885
Miss May Mitchell of Pontypridd, crankshaft polisherMiss May Mitchell of Pontypridd, formerly a vacuum cleaner supervisor, polishes a crankshaft from a damaged engine at the BOAC Depot in South Wales in 1942. Date: 1942
Advertisement in Esperanto on writing machines
Tea tango craze: Advert for Nugget shoe polish, 1913Create a good impression when dancing your first tango step: use " Nugget" boot polish. Date: 1913
Maid Cleans ShoesA maidservant polishes boots. Date: 1885
Shoeshine Boy - TurkeyTurkish shoeshine boy (or in this case man!) brushes his clients boots to a gleaming finish
Polishing a Silver TrayAn Edwardian butler polishes a silver tray until he can see his face in it
Cotton Balling / ChinaAn old lady winds cotton into ballas, whilst a younger man polishes a crystal disk on a low bench. Their work in front of a modest homestead with a straw roof
Advert / Blacking / PolishDiana Blackings and Polishes
Lady Polishes a TableA young housewife polishes the marble coffee table
ADVERT MOPO-Cedar Polish Mop - cleans as it polishes
Polishing FurnitureShe polishes a chest of drawers Date: 1923
Housemaid Polishes FloorA maidservant on her hands and knees polishes a floor with beeswax and turpentine