Housewife Collection (#16)

The American war effort at home - WWI - the benefits of growing ones own food on a allotment, smallholding or in the garden and also the benfits of then bottling/canning fruit and veg

Advice to would-be brides - The housework ahead
Advice to ladies about to be married - To get used to house-work! Try a few weeks Charing. The sender of this card has added the waggish line: " Hope you won t grease the stairs for me

In Roderick Avenue Peacehaven Sussex these tanks filled twice daily with drinking water and housewives queue up to draw their ration 13th September 1949

The long trek for water in Peacehaven Sussex Residents traverse the long long road towards the tanks which are filled twice daily 14 September 1949

Mrs Gardaner and Mrs Weatherall draw drinking water from stand pipes which have been set up in the main road at Peavehaven Sussex 14 September 1949

Bread rationing. Housewives and children queue at the bakers in Bexley Heath. 1946

Woman doing the washing

A woman boils to kettle for her cup of tea, in the main room of her cottage. The Rayburn range cooker also helps to keep the cottage warm and cosy, Kent, England. 1930 s

Hanging the washiing out on gorse bushes in St Just, Penrith. 1936

Wood engraving, American, c1870
MOTHER AND CHILD, c1870. Wood engraving, American, c1870

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Housewife using bowl of washing up water to water garden plants Date:

Advertisement for Sunlight household soap c1890 recommending it to the housewife by claiming it would make life easier. Produced by Lever Brothers at their Port Sunlight works, Liverpool, England

Woman Purchasing Groceries
United States: c. 1940. A woman with two small children purchasing groceries at a grocery store

Woman Weighing Vegetables
United States: c. 1935. A woman shopper is weighing her vegetable purhases on a hanging scale in a grocery store

A Woman Cooking In Her Kitchen
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: c. 1928. A woman cooking in her kitchen, which is equipped with a Monarch electric stove

A woman wearing an apron in the kitchen of a model home making a sandwich with Wonder Bread
United States: c. 1950. A woman wearing an apron in the kitchen of a model home making a sandwich with Wonder Bread

Woman Cutting A Homemade Cake
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: c. 1927. A woman cuts into a cake she baked in her Monarch oven

Fresh Baked Bread From Oven
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: 1937. Two women sit in a kitchen drinking coffee while freshly baked bread cools on the cabinet

Frustrated Woman Baker
United States: c. 1947. A frustrated woman with a mess in her kitchen from trying to bake a cake. It was an early ad for Bisquick

A Woman Baking Cookies
Battle Creek, Michigan: c. 1936. Using a Monarch oven for baking cookies

A Woman Making Ice Cubes
United States: c. 1945. A housewife puts an ice cube tray into the freezer section of her refrigerator

Hanging Up Laundry To Dry
Baltimore, Maryland: March 7, 1941. A woman hangs up her familys laundry at a trailer camp for defense industry workers. There is a severe housing shortage due to the influx of thousands of workers

Refrigerator, 1940s C014 / 0468
Refrigerator. Woman demonstrating proper use of a refrigerator in the USA in the 1940s as part of a public information photo-shoot

Washing machine, 1940s C016 / 2552
Washing machine rinsing. Woman following wartime instructions to drain and rinse her washing machine. Home maintenance was necessary because US domestic washing machine production was suspended after

An itinerant patent medicine salesman. Line engraving, American, late 19th century
PATENT MEDICINE SALESMAN. An itinerant patent medicine salesman. Line engraving, American, late 19th century

MOTHER AND CHILD, c1870. / nWood engraving, American, c1870
MOTHER AND CHILD, c1870. /nWood engraving, American, c1870

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