Sweeping Collection

Advertisement for the Western Electric vacuum cleaner with a women patiently cleaning the carpet around her snoozing husband. Lets hope that cigarette falls into his lap and wakes him up. Date: c.1924

Bear Feeds Fish to Cubs Date: 1948

Birthday card, Chimney Sweep Dog. mid-20th century

Cover design, The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte, illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Showing three children playing on a makeshift sailing boat constructed with a chair

Comic postcard, Woman in expensive underwear chats to cleaning lady Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women talking over fence
Comic postcard, Two women talking over the garden fence. Well, the only pleasure I have in life now is taking my boots off! Date: 20th century

WW2 - Minesweeper Apparatus
A photograph depicting some British WW2 merchant seamen lowering some sweeping apparatus from the deck of a minesweeper to sea, by crane. Date: circa 1942

House In Surrey, General View
An architectural photo lithograph showing the general view of a house in Surrey, reproduced from a design possibly by the architect Ernest Newton

Morny Freres Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Morny Freres Ltd. London based master perfumers. This poster promotes a series of bath salts, soaps and dusting powders and portrays a young woman

Port
This painting shows some calm port waters which have three similar ships populating the surface, a sweeping slope of ploughed fields and farmhouses make up the background scenery. Date: circa 1915

Newmarket Stables
A painting by artist Maurice Taquoy (1878-1952) of a yard at Egerton House stables, Newmarket. Date: 1931

Jack Hobbs sweeps ball to long leg
English cricketer Jack Hobbs sweeping a ball to long leg Date: circa 1930s

Gilmore Valley
This landscape watercolour painting shows Gilmore Valley, with patchy, sweeping fields, enclosed at each side by rows of mountains, in Australia. Date: circa 1925

When Eve Delved and Adam span, who then was the gentleman?'Scenic outdoor photographs of woman gardening. With captions, Trained Muscles Make Nothing of a Heavy Roller

The Crossing Sweeper, by William Powell Frith, showing Victorian wealth and poverty. Date: 1858

Cartoon, The concierge of the House of Austria, WW1
Cartoon, The concierge of the House of Austria, showing Emperor Franz Josef of Austria lying in state (although he was still alive at the time)

Two members of Gibraltar's police force questioning a Spanish boy on the gang-way of a refugee boat, August 1936. The Spanish Civil War, which started in the summer of 1936

A small girl sets about sweeping the yard with a very big broom, but is distracted when a robin arrives to keep her company. Date: circa 1886

Comic postcard, Woman at the seaside, being swept off her feet Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Maid and mistress Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl with sweeping brush Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Vicar with married couple Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Cold weather conversation Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman talking about marriage. He said it would be like the Garden of Eden when we were married. So it is - nothing to wear and expecting to get kicked out any minute

Comic postcard, Two women in conversation Date: 20th century

Boatman on a lake under a sweeping tree, Japan, late 19th century

Proposed rational dress for servants, 1912
Suggested rational dress (trousers) suitable for servants. Date: 1912

Volunteer mine-sweeper trainees lowering weight, Sept 1939
Volunteer mine-sweeper trainees lowering a weight over the side of a boat to keep their paravane at the correct depth. Volunteers, most commonly fishermen

Volunteer mine-sweepers in training, Sept 1939
A scheme to train fisherman as volunteer mine-sweepers began in 1938 and was used to allow the navy to concentrate elswhere

West Ferry Road, Millwall, East London. Date: circa 1908

Minesweepers in the North Sea, WW1
Minesweepers in the North Sea, First World War. 1914-1918

Crossing-sweepers 1849
Poor couple sweeping the streets of London. Date: 1849

Able-bodied street-sweeper
Sweeping the streets of London

Crossing-sweeper that has been a maid servant
Woman sweeping the streets of London

Crossing-sweeper nuisance Crossing-sweeper nuisance 1856
Group of young children with brooms, sweeping the ground as a gentleman walks alone, asking for a ha penny. Date: 1856

Boys crossing-sweepers, London boys asking an affluent gentlemen for a penny for keeping the streets tidy. Date: circa 1850s

HOUSEMAID WITH BROOM
A French housemaid in a mob cap and long skirts rests a moment from her sweeping with one hand on her hip Date: circa 1835

BRIGHTON VIADUCT
This dramatically sweeping viaduct carries the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway eastwards from Brighton. Date: 1846

MAID SWEEPING
A Victorian housemaid brushes a step Date: circa 1870

Street sweeper 1863
Young barefoot boy sweeping the streets for some money. Date: 1863

VERSAILLES / BASIN LATONE
A sweeping view of the Bassin de Latone

Sweeping Snow
Two boys sweep the snow from the pavement outside a town house Date: 1865

Cotton Mule Spinning 1835
Interior of cotton factory: mule spinning, Lancashire, child sweeps inside moving machine. Date: 1835

A fantasy brushmaker, wearing a costume made up of the products she makes. Date: circa 1700

Warsaw street sweeper, winter
A woman street sweeper brushes snow in a Warsaw park, Poland Date: 1987

Advertising Promotional card for Ayers Pills, which can seemingly affect a cure for any known ailment... The image depicts a (French?) military hero sweeping to victory on a battlefield

Tabby kitten and sweeping brush
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten and sweeping brush. 1950s

Greetings card in the shape of a dustpan and brush with a picture of a housemaid and her suitor. Date: circa 1890s

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