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Comic postcard, Whats cooking? Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Father of twins shaving Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Maid and mistress Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Man looking for lost football - Inside Right (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century
Comic postcard, Woman with dress improvers the wrong way round, as pointed out by her maid Date: early 20th century
1860s Japan - portrait of a young woman and her servant Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
1860s Japan - portrait of a young woman, her baby and servant Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
1860s Japan - portrait of a samurai and his servant travelling in snow Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
1860s Japan - portrait of a young woman tying her obi sash Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
1860s Japan - portrait of a group of young women out for a walk Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
1860s Japan - portrait of a samurai group being served by a tea house servant Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
Oh! Susannah! a farcical comedy by Mark Ambient, first produced at the Eden Theatre, Brighton, in 1897, starring Louie Freear as the maid Date: late 19th century
Comic postcard, People sleeping on the stairs at Weston-Super-Mare. Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Maidservant and dog Date: 20th century
The Maid-Of-All-Work is put upon. Now, Betsy be quick and wash up the breakfast things, clear the kitchen, make the beds, and get me up carefully a pair of sleeves
Comic postcard, not the particular sort of maid Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, marrying a policeman Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, your young mans gone at last Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Choice of underwear for Oxford man Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Ambiguous instructions to the butcher Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Butler and his masters wife Date: 20th century
Advertisement for St. Ivel with a maid bringing bowls of soup (or cups of tea) to neatly laid lunch table already with ham, cold pie, bread and of course, a tub of St
Advertisement for Walls Sausages depicting a young, married couple about to be served some delicious bangers for dinner by their maid. Date: c.1924
North African man with jug and dish19th century vintage photograph: North African man with jug and dish
A bobby on the beat, who has stopped to enjoy a bit of pie from a friendly cook in one house, gets surprised by the heat of a stove. Date: 1912
Indignant General to Cook: Well I wouldn t stay in a place like that five minutes. Two servants discuss John Hassalls famous Help! poster advertising vacuum cleaners which they view with suspicion
Wealthy townswomen at a house with courtyard, 18th centuryWealthy townswomen, Tokyo, 18th century. Three young chonin women gather at the house of an older woman for a meeting. A maid brings tea to a young nursing mother
Concubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man watching a dancerConcubine (mekake) of a high-ranking man with tobacco pipe watching a dancing girl accompanied by musicians on shamisen and blind koto harpist (koze)
The General Post-Office, Southwark Bridge and Waterloo Bridge. Stage coach in front of the General Post-Office in St. Martins le Grand 64
Guy Fawkes in Effigy, Bartholomews Hospital and Smithfield Market. Children begging with an effigy of Guy Fawkes on 5 November 39, men bringing a patient on a stretcher into St
Trades in Regency England: china painting, pin makingTrades people in Regency England. Artist painting a porcelain vase in a Worcester china factory 7, girl using a foot-driven anvil to add heads to pins in a pin-making factory in Gloucester 8
Historical views of Kamchatka. Koryak man on a sledge drawn by dogs 19, interior of a Koryak hut 20, and glutton or wolverine, Gulo gulo, hunting a deer 21
Visiting gentlemen refused entry to a house by a servant. The Inflexible Porter. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed by Henry Bunbury
Regency cobbler mending shoes in a crowded roomRegency cobbler mending shoes in a room full of women and children. Buxom wife using bellows on the fire in the hearth. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed
Men and women skating on thin ice and falling into a freezing river. Cold Broth and Calamity. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed
Young student graduating from a boys school. A tutor reading lessons from a lectern to boys on benches in a large hall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson
English gentleman writing a begging letter in a decrepit parlour with lawyer and loanshark looking on. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William
English aristocrat in a carriage ignoring a handshake from a lady, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somersville cut by the Countess of Caperington, Lady Scattercash
The maids laughing at a gardener dressed up in new footmans livery, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somersville outfitting her staff in pea-green coat
Fashionable pouf bonnet from the era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle, Costumes and hairstyles of the 18th century
Four great imams: Abu Hanifa 1, Al-Shafi ??i 2, Malik ibn Anas 3 and ibn Hanbal 4. I quattro Iman. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient
Odysseus entertained by Alcinous ruler of the PhaiaciansOdysseus entertained by Alcinous, ruler of the Phaiacians on the island of Scheria. Alcinous wife Arete and daughter Nausicaa listen while seated under a Thessalian-style umbrella
Woman in straw hat and dress of printed taffetaWoman with basket of autumn fruit in straw hat and dress of printed taffeta. Toilette de taffetas imprime, Chapeau de paille
Advert, Realsilk stockings. 1926
Advert, Cannon Towels -- absorb quickly, wear well, cost less. 1926
Proposed rational dress for servants, 1912Suggested rational dress (trousers) suitable for servants. Date: 1912
Girl with nanny, nurse or servant outside a house. circa 1900
Footmen with torches, LondonFootmen with torches, and a lady getting out of a sedan chair, London. 18th century