Waitress Gallery

Abc Cafe London/1900

The Aerated Bread Company Cafe (ABC) Ludgate Hill, London. The tea rooms opened in the 1860s, serving hot drinks and snacks. The stair sign reads Ladies Coffee Room Downstairs

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Cartoon, Replacing those who are at the Front, WW1

Cartoon, Replacing those who are at the Front, showing French women taking on men's jobs during the First World War: shaving a man in a barber's shop, punching a travel ticket, selling newspapers, serving in a cafe and working in a munitions factory. Date: 1915

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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A British Waitress in a restaurant or teahouse

A British Waitress working in a restaurant or teahouse - delivering a tray of hot drinks. Perhaps her slightly downcast expression is in part due to the fact that gratuities to serving staff were clearly being firmly discouraged (note the sign on the wall). Date: 1906

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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