Servants Collection (page 9)

Sphere cover - German retreat from Lille, 1918
Front cover of The Sphere featuring an illustration by Fortunino Matania showing a scene in Lille when the British finally recaptured the town from the retreating Germans in October 1918

Suffragette Domestic Servant, Pankhurst. A young housemaid reclines on a sofa saying, I cut my little finger and I must take it very easy in case it hurts me anymore

Present Day Types - the Get-Off-My-Earth Chauffeur
One of a series of Present Day Types by Arthur Watts showing a haughty and disdainful chauffeur in his uniform, posing by a motor car. Date: 1914

Hyams of Oxford Street, boys outfitters, advertisement
Advertisement for Hyams of Oxford Street, Leeds, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, one of the oldest established houses for boys tailoring and outfitting, providing first class goods at moderate prices

Belling electric fires advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Belling electric fires, with the revelation that families could do without one servant as a result of the modern device

Servants Night-time Visiting Ban at Congleton, Cheshire
Following claims, in 1842, that the practice of allowing young men to pay night-time visits to female servants in agricultural areas of the Wrexham Union resulted in many single mothers at

Billeting soldiers, WW1 humour
Maid to mistress: If yer please, mem, theres a hofficer at the door, and e wants to know if you can FILLET two sojers. A maid rather misunderstands the request of a billeting officer at a house

Advert for Ewarts Califont hot water 1926
Hot water instantly night or day. Hot water upstairs or downstairs. 1926

Servants in India. Date: circa 1890s

Our Superior Inferiors - an upper class lady charity worker
Lady de Tomkyn (at Cabbage Charity Sale): " How on earth are we to clean these pototoes? I DARE not ask Simpson!" A well-meaning lady hoping to help out at a charity sale

Woman and maid
A woman gets ready to go out, helped by her maid. Date: 20th century

Danish Missionary in India, M. Andersen and staff
Danish Missionary in India, M. Andersen and his native employees (staff). Date: 1908

A couple dressed in their finery, dancing

A washer woman or maid, looking at her reflection in a mirror

Two diners pull a wishbone rather too energetically much to the amazement (or annoyance) of their waitress. Chicken, plates

Mayfair Catering Company advertisement 1928
Advertisement for the Mayfair Catering Company, offering everything a society hostess might need for successful entertaining during the Season from silver and glasses to flowers

A debutante gets ready for court presentation, 1880s
A 20th century impression of a young debutante getting ready to be presented at court. As two maids put the finishing touches to her dress, her mother beams at her proudly

Cartoon, Studies in Leakage, or how the great secret of the Conference was given away. Showing how news of a Buckingham Palace Conference on Irish Home Rule was leaked to the press. Date: July 1914

Serving Through the Ages - Women
This picture shows the various roles of women servants from the 14th-19th century. It starts with showing servant girls milking, harvesting

Queen of the Carnival
The Queen of the Carnival, dressed up to look like Cleopatra, riding along the road on a horse-drawn float, with three female attendants

Romania - Bucharest - Public Servants Palace ( A very literal translation - probably the Offices of the Romanian Civil Service!). Date: circa 1906

Two Housemaids and toddler - Edwardian England Date: circa 1900s

Young Kitchenmaid shocked by the odour of Brown Garlic - " Lovely grub - lovely grub!" Date: circa 1940s

Edirne, Turkey - The High School for Civil Servants Date: circa 1910

Elderly maid digging in the garden c. 1910

BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c. ). The Dragon Fighting
" BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c.). The Dragon Fighting with the Servants of God. 1375-1382. Piece no. 39 from " The Apocalypse of Angers", commissioned by Louis I, Duke of Anjou

TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista (1696-1770). The Continence of Scipio Africanus. 1743. ITALY. Montecchio Maggiore. Villa Cordellina Lombardi. Detail of a couple and their servants. Baroque art. Fresco

Banquet. Servants clean guests feet. Roman art. Early Empire. Fresco. ITALY. Naples. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: ITALY. Pompeii

Tomb of Princess Yongtai. 706. CHINA. Xian. Tumb of Li Xian Hui, Princess Yongtai. Detail with servants. Chinese art. Han period. Fresco

Spain (19th c. ). Staff officer and his servant
Spain (19th c.). Staff officer and his servant. Litography. SPAIN. Donostia. Military Historical Museum

Young lady seated in a couch, surrounded by his

The servants (1820). Engraving. FRANCE. Paris

Indian nobleman. Hindu art. Miniature Painting

Kitchen contest for young servants (1931). Illustration
" Kitchen contest for young servants (1931). Illustration by Achille Beltrame for the " Domenica del Corriere". Engraving."

Feeding the master. Source unknown

Baileys Furniture Paste
Bagleys Furniture Paste polish, 1900 1900

Housemaids / Curtains 1900
Housemaids practice arranging curtains Date: c1900

Taeping / Europe Mistreat
Europeans and their servants are subjected to ill-treatment Date: circa 1860

Restrictions are not finished! 1919
French cook holds up a small morsel of food on a plater, while the lady of the house is looking in a recipe book. Date: 1919

England and America. The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute - December 16th, 1856, to whom this engraving is by special permission respectfully dedicated by her obedient

Portrait photographs of soldiers and servants from various Union headquarters; also shows photographers tent, topographical engineer corps, and portraits of George A. Custer

Ewarts Califont Hot Water Supply, 1927
Advertisement for Ewarts Califont Hot Water Supply, advising you to just turn the tap to enjoy hot, running water. Beyond a bathroom, a maid does the washing in a large butlers sink. Date: 1927

Lieutenant General Barnard, CB, Captain Barnard & servants. Lieutenant General Barnard, facing left, gesturing toward Captain Barnard with other staff around them in front of a wooden building

Nubian servants & horses. Two men, full-length portraits, facing front, standing with horses. Date 1855. Nubian servants & horses. Two men, full-length portraits, facing front, standing with horses

Servants at quarters of Prince de Joinville in front of Yorktown, May 3, 1862. Four men with wash tub, frying pan, etc. Date photographed 1862, printed later

A Study in Contrasts at La Plage by Laurie Tayler
A young woman in a fashionable, sporty green swimsuit emerges from the sea at Le Touquet to be met by her elderly maid with a towel. Date: 1927

Domestic Servants Insurance Act - Comic Postcard
Domestic Servants Insurance Act " I don t care how often I get hurt now, I am insured." A bandgaged housemaid shows her delight at the terms of the Domestic Servants Insurance Act

European Gentleman dressing, attended by his Head-Bearer and other servants. (Plate 4 of 20) Date: 1813

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