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Nursery Rhymes -- Knave and Queen of HeartsNursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- the Knave of Hearts takes a tart. Below -- the Queen of Hearts making her tarts. Date: early 20th century
Woman with tent and parked carA woman standing next to a circular open tent, with picnic items on the left and a parked car on the right
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1939Advert for Main cabinet gas cooker Date: 1939
English Country InteriorThis picturesque interior at Amberley, Surrey, England, was formerly a bakery and has now been converted into a little cafe. Date: 1950s
Japan - A Japanese Cook. Date: circa 1910s
Tibetan Picnic Party Date: circa 1920s
Young Kitchenmaid shocked by the odour of Brown Garlic - " Lovely grub - lovely grub!" Date: circa 1940s
Vietnam - Montrang - French soldiers cooking in the open airVietnam - Yen The District, Montrang - French soldiers cooking in the open air. Date: circa 1907
Turkish Archytype smoking a pipe conected to a stoveCaricature Turkish Archytype smoking a pipe connected to a stove Date: circa late 1920s
The fruits of success - A Chorus Girl visits homeThe fruits of success - An all-American chorus girl visits home and is greeted by surprise and a certain element of bemusement
Kitchen of the St. Martins Charterhouse (Certosa di San Martino). 17th c. Painting. ITALY. Naples. San Martino National Museum
CUSI, Manuel (1859-1922). Woman in front of a stove. Oil on canvas
Kitchen contest for young servants (1931). Illustration" Kitchen contest for young servants (1931). Illustration by Achille Beltrame for the " Domenica del Corriere". Engraving."
Camping in a tentPeople You See. Camping in a tent. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)
Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1938Are you a slave to your cooker ? The new world 45/48 gas cookers with exclusive regulo control. Power burners to give more concentrated heat
Advert for electric cookers by Belling 1931Happy ladies ! Belling has made electric cooking cheap. 1. New visible heat boiling-griller and fastest in the world. 2. Temset automatic oven control. 3. All gleaming white mottled enamel finish
Dog being washed
Cook and WaitressPeople You See. From Teddy Bear (5 February 1966)
Washing Hair
LFB Iron Ration Cupboard (Metal Specimen)An example of an Iron Ration Cupboard for the London Fire Brigade(Metal Specimen)
Birds Custard advertisement 1927Advertisement for Birds Custard Powder featuring a rather lovely silhouette illustration showing a woman at a stove preparing some more custard for her husband who is slurping it with relish at a
A Rabbit at the stoveA hansomely dressed rabbit puts more wood into the stove. Date: early 1930s
New superb
Rising Sun stove polish
Hungarian miners wife bringing home coal for the stove from slate pile. Coal camp, Chaplin, West Virginia. Date 1938 Sept
Box (stove) with drawers, open at top showing grill or hibachi and teapot. Date 1878 Nov
Advertisement: Rendsburg StovesAdvertisement for Rendsburg Coal-fired Stoves. 1923
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with hot plate 1938Heres something New! The main cooker is fitted with the " P.R" hot plate closet in lieu of usual plate rack, and thus provides an enclosed space in which food or plates
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with no stoopingCooking without stooping. In kitchens where there is more than the usual space available, or where it is desirable to untilize an open-range setting setting the Maintop gas cooker provides a
Smiling woman preparing a wholesome feastA woman wearing a chequered apron and broad smile, leans over the stove and peels potatoes for the roast dinner she is preparing. 1937
Making popcorn - RomaniaA Gypsy woman cooking corn to make popcorn. Date: circa 1910
Mexico - Lady making tortillas. She is rolling out the dough on a stone (with a rolling pin), shaping the tortillas and cooking them on a hot stove, with a elaborate stone chimney. Date: circa 1905
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookersOne of the Main models will meet your needs! Advertisement for Main cookers for smaller kitchens. 1939
Dog CookingA dog arranging pans on a stove. Date: early 1930s
Cleaning Kitchen FloorAn ingenious housewife saves her back by cleaning her kitchen floor with a cloth and a sweeping brush. Date: 1940s
She made them some brothThere was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She made them some broth -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman in her kitchen
Musgraves Stoves advertAdvertisement for Musgraves Stoves, from Musgrave & Co, Ltd : burn night and day; give no trouble, no dust; no unpleasant smell; no overheating. Date: 1901
Scullery in slum at Limehouse
Good Coffee TipThe essence of good coffee is keeping it hot, so stand the coffee jug in a basin of hot water, put the grounds in the jug, pour on boiling water and stand it by the heated stove. Date: 1930s
Fireplace / Feetham StoveStove by Messrs Feetham & Co displayed at the 1862 exhibition Date: 1862
Advert for the Radiation New World Gas CookerRadiation porcelain enamelled New World Gas Cooker. Date: 1933
Forty Warm WinksBonzo, the canine cartoon character created by George Studdy and hugely popular during the 1920s, is pictured getting closer and closer to the fire and on drowsing off
Bawarchi (Cook) - India - he is breaking an egg into a copper pan
Hot chestnut sellerA jolly Hot Chestnut seller keeping warm by the fire, with a cat sheltering beneath him. He has a wicker basket full of uncooked chestnuts on his arm
Housewife Using a Modern Gas CookerThe housewifes best friend is a modern gas cooker equipped with every convenience for cooking food scientifically and daintily
Cinderella dreams of a better lifePoor downtrodden Cinderella sits in the kitchen, dreaming of a better life (so distracted she misses the little birds tucking in to the supper for her evil sisters)
Trench Nightmare CartoonA self-portrait caricature by Walter Henry Clark, describing a nightmare he suffered whilst in the trenches during WW1
Oil Cook Stove 1919The New Perfection Oil Cook Stove is used by 3 million American housewives - You, too, should have a dependable New Perfection !