Sweep Collection (page 3)

Standon Farm Industrial School, Staffordshire
Inmates sweep the yard at the Standon Farm Industrial School, Staffordshire, run by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: 1907

The Clairvoyante who Foretold her own Marriage by H M Batema
A sequential cartoon by H.M. Bateman showing a woman studying cards to tell her own future. Believing they re predicting she ll meet the man she ll marry imminently

Cartoon, Replacing the maid, WW1
Cartoon, Replacing the maid. A middle class couple are forced to do the household chores themselves during a period of wartime austerity

Favourite Sayings - Sweep before your own door
Black and white lantern slide of a man sweeping in front of painted background of a front door, steps and railings.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Firefighters with sweeping brushes, Southwark HQ
Firefighters with sweeping brushes at Southwark HQ, taking part in an escape competition

Mines and torpedoes by G. H. Davis
Navy Notes of the Week: the question of mines and torpedoes. Showing naval minesweepers at work, sweeping a wire across an underwater mine field; a modern high-speed long-range torpedo;

Submarine incident in North Sea by G. H. Davis
A submarine incident in the North Sea. How the sinking of the German cruiser Hela was accomplished (top). Two other illustrations relate to

Mine problem in North Sea by G. H. Davis
The mine problem in the North Sea. The mine layer at work, showing the way in which the mine is held below the water and how it is exploded by a passing ship

Child sweeping autumn leaves by Muriel Dawson
A cute child in a blue coat sweeping autumn leaves, with calendar below and four birds in the left margin, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1940s

Mothers Crossing Sweeper by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl sweeps autumn leaves from the doorway. Date: 1930

Portrait photograph of three French chimney sweeps

Two gardeners sweeping leaves, 1889
Two gardeners at work sweeping leaves in the grounds of a stately home. Date: 1889

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

Woman sweeping a yard
A woman sweeping a yard outside a barn

Japan - Women performing a variety of tasks in the home
Japan - Three women house staff performing a variety of tasks in the home - their Geisha Mistress is looking out of the window in the background, seemingly ignoring their endeavours. Date: circa 1900

Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering a letter
Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering good wishes. Traditionally chimney sweeps used to go door to door wishing (and hopefully bringing) folk good luck

Russian Road Sweeper. Date: circa 1903

Two Japanese women cleaning a Geisha House
Beautiful postcard, depicting two Japanese women (O-Kiku-Ean and Ayame-San) cleaning a Geisha House. Date: circa 1910s

A pair of Hawker Hunter F6s of No20 Squadron RAF
A pair of Hawker Hunter F6s of No20 Squadron, RAF, sweep over Pulau Tioman, during anti-infiltration patrol over Malaysian territory

Scorpis sp. sweep
Watercolour 378 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Mannadaang, from the Watling Collection

water well sweep - Rangoon
Water well sweep - Rangoon - well sweep for commercial vegetable gardens on Kokine Road Date: 1951

Topsy Turvy Pirate Ship

1938 hairstlyes for women
High hair with long straight back, side sweep and curls well forward on the crown where much the fashion in 1938. Date: 1938

The Sweep
A sweep walking the streets shouting for custom Date: 1903

French soldiers cleaning their Barrack Yard. They all wear loose overalls over their uniforms (even the supervising officers) - dusty work! Date: 1906

A clean sweep

Cub Scouts sweeping runway, HMS Osprey, Portland

Three Chimneysweeps
Three very young chimneysweeps in the United States of America Date: 1904

Chimney Sweep Carving
A quaint stone carving over a doorway at Benstead Hall, Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex, England. It depicts a chimney sweeps brush and canes, bag of soot and a chimney pot

Naughty children making a mess

Chambermaid been asked out by the sweep
Chambermaid receives an admirer: From sweep in love can work be e er expected? And so this morn the chimneys are neglected; upon his knees he vainly pleads

Slapton Sands
The sweep of the Devon coastline at Slapton Sands, England. Date: 1950s

Wales / Dunraven Bay
The fine sweep of Dunraven Bay, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire, Wales. Date: 1950s

Wales / Mewslade Bay
The fine sweep of Mewslade Bay, near Rhossili, Gower Peninsula, Glamorgan, Wales. Date: 1960s

The River Wey
A picturesque sweep of the River Wey, at Burpham, Guildford, Surrey, England. Date: 1930s

Swans & Bridge
Swans on the River Ouse and the bold sweep of the arch in the bridge, leading to Tyringham House, Tyringham, Buckinghamshire, England. Date: 1960s

Chimney pots with sweeps brush poking out
Two chimney pots with a sweeps brush poking out of one of them -- the last place to choose when looking for somewhere safe to build a nest! Date: 1937

Getting out the paravanes on entering a minefield, WW1
The crew of a ship getting out the paravanes on entering a minefield during the First World War. The paravane is towed underwater in order to detect the presence of mines

Lowering a paravane on entering a minefield, WW1
Lowering a paravane on entering a minefield during the First World War. The paravane is towed underwater in order to detect the presence of mines. Date: 1914-1918

A boy sweep
Engraving of George Baxters illustration of a black-faced chimney sweeps boy. Date unknown

Sweep! Sweep
Old Street Cries -- Sweep! Sweep!! 20th century

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Pot and Kettle
The pot calling the kettle black. A coal-man and chimney sweep stop to chat in the street. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow

Little Crossing Sweeper by Muriel Dawson
A small child in a blue coat and hat assiduously sweeps up autumn leaves with the help of an old-fashioned broom and a wheelbarrow

Collecting supplies for refugees WWII
Rich and poor alike bring gifts to the Womens Voluntary Service Depot for the Belgian refugees during World War II. Here the local chimney sweep brings a pram whilst Lady Lucas Tooth

Morocco - Street Sweepers
Road Sweepers in Morocco, connected by a rope (to prevent them sweeping the same patch twice)

Morocco - Road Sweeper
A road sweeper with a large broom in Tangiers, Morocco

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