Housewife Collection

English Rose kitchen advert, woman with desserts
Advertisement for English Rose Kitchen Equipment featuring a young housewife with a tea trolley and a selection of desserts, cakes and tea. Date: 1952

A glamorous female model with her trusty Goblin Teasmade
A stylish female model wakes up fresh-faced and ready now to face the day thanks to a few sips from a hearty brew prepared by her faithful bedside Goblin Teasmade. How Delicious! Date: 1960s

Cover for Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Date: circa 1927

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). Peasant girl hanging clothes to
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). French painter. Impressionism. Peasant girl hanging clothes to dry (1881). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhgen. Denmark

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

1930s woman cooking in her kitchen
A woman stands at a kitchen pantry or dresser trying out new recipes. Attached to the work service is a hand operated meat mincer. Date: c.1930

Advert for English Rose kitchens 1952
Young housewife cooking in her new English Rose fitted kitchen. Comes with a cause of softglow worktop colours, scarlet red, steel blue and amulet green. Date: 1952

Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Home made with Triplex! Date: circa 1920s

CHIMNEY SWEEP, 1890. American advertisement for Pears Soap, 1890

Liverpool housewives seen here gossiping in the street. Women holding parcel June 1962

A Woman Vacuuming
New York, New York: 1929. Marie Bard, 22, who is the model for the 1930 Red Cross poster and US postage stamp illustrated by artist Lawrence Wilbur

Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Rootes Motors Limited brochure
Front cover of a Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Rootes Motors Limited brochure - " A Better Buy - because they re better built" 1960

Discreet Bread Bin
A curtain hung across a disused kitchen range is a discreet way to store your bread in its bread bin. Date: 1930s

Advertisement for Tala Colourful Kitchenware (colour litho)
8655276 Advertisement for Tala Colourful Kitchenware (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Advertisement for Tala Colourful Kitchenware)

A housewife's monthly work throughout the year (colour litho)
8634927 A housewife's monthly work throughout the year (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A housewife's monthly work throughout the year)

Dinner table setting, mid 1930s (b/w photo)
8634922 Dinner table setting, mid 1930s (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dinner table setting, mid 1930s)

Modern methods of cooking (b/w photo)
8657628 Modern methods of cooking (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Modern methods of cooking)

Games: a mother playing with her two children at the time of ancient Rome. Chromolithography of the late 19th century
JAB5037041 Games: a mother playing with her two children at the time of ancient Rome. Chromolithography of the late 19th century; (add.info.: Games)

Women preparing Thanksgiving dinner in a gigantic kitchen, USA, circa 1890. Colourful engraving of the 19th century
NWI4880204 Women preparing Thanksgiving dinner in a gigantic kitchen, USA, circa 1890. Colourful engraving of the 19th century.; (add.info.: Women preparing Thanksgiving dinner in a gigantic kitchen)

Women spinning with big wheels, USA, 19th century. Colourful engraving of the 19th century
NWI4880045 Women spinning with big wheels, USA, 19th century. Colourful engraving of the 19th century.; (add.info.: Women spinning with big wheels, USA, 19th century)

Bristol, United Kingdom, An embroidery at work with her embroidery on the knees, 1870
LUX4733953 Bristol, United Kingdom, An embroidery at work with her embroidery on the knees, 1870; (add.info.: Bristol, United Kingdom, An embroidery at work with her embroidery on the knees)

Le Lire rouge, Satirique en Colours, 1918_4_20: War of 14 -18: work of lady - Love, Obeite - Illustration by H
ICA4847168 Le Lire rouge, Satirique en Colours, 1918_4_20: War of 14 -18: work of lady - Love, Obeite - Illustration by H

Mother looking her daughter in the eye. New Year's Greeting Postcard addressed to soldiers who went to war
JAB5034983 Mother looking her daughter in the eye. New Year's Greeting Postcard addressed to soldiers who went to war "Dear Absent, Our Caresses and Happy New Year"

Woman sewing at home, enlighten by the window of the room. Colouring engraving of the 19th century
NWI4883316 Woman sewing at home, enlighten by the window of the room. Colouring engraving of the 19th century.; (add.info.: Woman sewing at home, enlighten by the window of the room)

Kitchen, United States, colonialism: Farmhouse peeling apples to make dumplings
NWI4882032 Kitchen, United States, colonialism: Farmhouse peeling apples to make dumplings. Colouring engraving of the 19th century.; (add.info.: Kitchen, United States)

Housewife sewing at home to earn a living, USA. Colour engraving of the 19th century
NWI4879660 Housewife sewing at home to earn a living, USA. Colour engraving of the 19th century.; (add.info.: Housewife sewing at home to earn a living, USA)

Home and family transformed into models of comfort and smartness by the housewife's industry with the help of
530590 Home and family transformed into models of comfort and smartness by the housewife's industry with the help of the Singer sewing machine (engraving); (add.info)

Butcher cutting a piece of steak, mid 1930s (b/w photo)
8634931 Butcher cutting a piece of steak, mid 1930s (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Butcher cutting a piece of steak, mid 1930s)

Plan of work for housewife and one helper, 1930s (colour litho)
8634930 Plan of work for housewife and one helper, 1930s (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Plan of work for housewife and one helper, 1930s)

Plan of work for a small servantless house, mid 1930s (colour litho)
8634929 Plan of work for a small servantless house, mid 1930s (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Plan of work for a small servantless house, mid 1930s)

Plan of work for housewife and one helper, mid 1930s (colour litho)
8634928 Plan of work for housewife and one helper, mid 1930s (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Plan of work for housewife and one helper, mid 1930s)

Lighting in a sitting room, mid 1930s (b/w photo)
8634926 Lighting in a sitting room, mid 1930s (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lighting in a sitting room, mid 1930s)

Housewife at work on the sewing-machine, mid 1930s (b/w photo)
8634924 Housewife at work on the sewing-machine, mid 1930s (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Housewife at work on the sewing-machine, mid 1930s)

A young fashion woman (or fashion designer) offering her clients blue ribbons, a symbol of lovers
JAB5037077 A young fashion woman (or fashion designer) offering her clients blue ribbons, a symbol of lovers. Postcard from the beginning of the 20th century; (add.info)

Kitchen interior. Painting by Michel Francois Dandre Bardon (1700-1783), French school of the 18th century
JEB4846165 Kitchen interior. Painting by Michel Francois Dandre Bardon (1700-1783), French school of the 18th century. Musee des Beaux Arts, Palais Longchamp.; Palais de Longchamp, Marseille

King Alfred the Great (849-899) forgets the cakes prepared by the Danish house under her roof in Athelney
ELD4874045 King Alfred the Great (849-899) forgets the cakes prepared by the Danish house under her roof in Athelney, and burns them, 878 - Back in the little house

Handmaid showing a bouquet of flowers to housewife, England, 19th century. Colour engraving of the 19th century
NWI4883091 Handmaid showing a bouquet of flowers to housewife, England, 19th century. Colour engraving of the 19th century.; (add.info.: Handmaid showing a bouquet of flowers to housewife, England)

First World War: France, Patriotic Map showing a young woman wearing a patriotic bouquet
LUX4740850 First World War: France, Patriotic Map showing a young woman wearing a patriotic bouquet and a flag greeting through the window, soldiers leaving to the front, 1915

Duties towards oneself: the body. Order and Desorder. A woman does housework in her house
DUV4212713 Duties towards oneself: the body. Order and Desorder. A woman does housework in her house. Engraving in " The unique book of morality and civic instruction

Rolling Pastry, 1900 (woodcut)
1574594 Rolling Pastry, 1900 (woodcut); (add.info.: Housewife rolling out pastry on a table, watched by small children. Woodcut, London, 1900.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

The Lazy Woman, after J.B. Greuze, 1747. From Illustrierte Sittengeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart by Eduard
1000923 The Lazy Woman, after J.B. Greuze, 1747. From Illustrierte Sittengeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart by Eduard Fuchs, published 1909.; Private Collection.

A Hebridean housewife
5308103 A Hebridean housewife.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting a Hebridean housewife doing her washing. The Hebrides is an archipelago comprising hundreds of islands off the northwest coast of)

A mother looks at her little daughter sitting on a swing. Both hold flowers
JAB5036918 A mother looks at her little daughter sitting on a swing. Both hold flowers. Postcard from the beginning of the 20th century; (add.info)

An engraving depicting a pedlar displaying his tray of wares to a country housewife, 19th century
5311015 An engraving depicting a pedlar displaying his tray of wares to a country housewife, 19th century; (add.info.: Date: 1825); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Economy class in Germany. Photography around 1910
IMB4916786 Economy class in Germany. Photography around 1910; (add.info.: Economy class in Germany. Photography around 1910); Photo © BAO/Imagebroker.

History of the settlers and the conquete of the West: American pioneers. Mother of a baby fighting a wolf attack
NWI4888130 History of the settlers and the conquete of the West: American pioneers. Mother of a baby fighting a wolf attack the family in the wooden house

With paper at 9d, per pound, housewives stored old newspapers for re-sale to fishmongers etc during World War One
3502781 With paper at 9d, per pound, housewives stored old newspapers for re-sale to fishmongers etc during World War One, from The Pageant of the Century, pub.1934; (add.info.: With paper at 9d)

Women working in the kitchen. 19th century engraving
PCT4265859 Women working in the kitchen. 19th century engraving.; (add.info.: Women working in the kitchen. 19th century engraving.).

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"Embracing the Art of Homemaking: Celebrating the Housewife Through Time" Step into a world where elegance and efficiency meet, as we take you on a journey through the captivating history of housewives. From the early 19th century to the mid-20th century, these remarkable women have been at the heart of every home, creating warm and inviting spaces for their families. In our brochure advertising Triplex Grates/Ranges, witness how these innovative kitchen appliances revolutionized cooking methods. Picture yourself in an English Rose kitchen advert, where a woman proudly presents her delectable desserts with love and care. And who could forget the glamorous female model with her trusty Goblin Teasmade by her side – an iconic symbol of convenience and sophistication. Travel back in time with us to witness a patient woman meticulously cleaning using Western Electric vacuum cleaner – showcasing not only her dedication but also highlighting advancements in household technology during that era. In another scene from the 1930s, immerse yourself in nostalgia as you observe a woman passionately preparing meals for her loved ones in her cozy kitchen. Fast forward to 1952 when English Rose kitchens took center stage once again – this time capturing hearts with their timeless beauty and functionality. Meanwhile, Liverpool housewives gather on bustling streets exchanging stories while holding parcels filled with life's little pleasures. As we delve further into history, explore brochures from Humber, Hillman, and Sunbeam Rootes Motors Limited - reminding us that even outside their homes; housewives played vital roles within society. Witnessing them embrace new technologies like vacuum cleaners or discreet bread bins reveals their unwavering commitment to maintaining order amidst chaos. Through it all shines one constant theme - resilience coupled with grace. These women may have been labeled as "housewives, " but they were so much more than just homemakers; they were pillars of strength within their communities.