Housewife Collection

Interior with mother and children, 1799-1856. Creator: Abraham Lion Zeelander
Interior with mother and children, 1799-1856. Woman with sewing basket surrounded by domestic paraphernalia and half-completed tasks

A Housewife in an inner Courtyard Cleaning Fish, 1639-1649. Creator: Hendrik Potuyl
A Housewife in an inner Courtyard Cleaning Fish, 1639-1649

News of a death, 1803-c.1899. Creator: J. Enklaar
News of a death, 1803-c.1899. A man (announcer or notifier) communicates the death of someone to a housewife on the doorstep of a house where wine is sold

Woman peeling apples, and a man in the hallway, 1831-1892. Creator: Johannes Anthonie Balthasar Stroebel
Woman peeling apples, and a man in the hallway, 1831-1892. Interior with street visible behind the man in a corridor

Dorpsstraat, 1832-1880. Creator: Jan Weissenbruch
Dorpsstraat, 1832-1880. Village street

Interior with farming family around the table, 1758-1808. Creator: Christina Chalon
Interior with farming family around the table, 1758-1808

Farmer's family feeding the pigs, 1758-1808. Creator: Christina Chalon
Farmer's family feeding the pigs, 1758-1808

The Housewife, 1800-1811. Creator: Abraham van Strij
The Housewife, 1800-1811

Woman Drawing Water from a Well, 1799. Creator: Jacobus Johannes Lauwers
Woman Drawing Water from a Well, 1799

El Paso housewives after a day's shopping in Juarez, Mexico, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Paso housewives after a day's shopping in Juarez, Mexico where they benefit by the rate of exchange. Texas

Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d. Creator: Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovski
Scenes from Russian Folk Life, n.d

Design: Mrs. Holle, 1943. Creator: Anny Dollschein
Design: Mrs. Holle, 1943

Hamax disinfectant, marketing shot, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Hamax disinfectant, marketing shot, 1963. Hamax cleaning products operated from their South Yorkshire base in Mexborough for many years, producing products such as bleaches and disinfectants

The Little Street, c1658. Artist: Jan Vermeer
The Little Street, c1658. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

A housewife at her loom, with her two children, 1859. Creator: Constantin Hansen
A housewife at her loom, with her two children, 1859

An amateur wife, 1852. Creator: Julius Exner
An amateur wife, 1852

A Housewife Instructing her Maid, 1644-1683. Creator: Pieter de Hooch
A Housewife Instructing her Maid, 1644-1683

War production worker at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5... Milwaukee, Wis. 1943. Creator: Howard Hollem
War production worker at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts

War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5... Milwaukee, Wis. 1943. Creator: Howard Hollem
War production workers at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 24, filing small parts

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into... Heil and Co. Milwaukee, Wisc. 1943. Creator: Howard Hollem
Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co. Milwaukee, Wisc

Enola O Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child... Heil and Co. Milwaukee, Wisc. 1943. Creator: Howard Hollem
Enola O Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now only woman welder at Heil and Co. Milwaukee, Wisc

Housewives at the seashore waiting for the fishing boats to come in Frederiksted, V. I. 1941. Creator: Jack Delano
Housewives at the seashore waiting for the fishing boats to come in Frederiksted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands

In the Kitchen, n. d. Creator: Charles Samuel Keene
In the Kitchen, n.d

Penelope, A Doorway Chelsea, 1888-89. Creator: Theodore Roussel
Penelope, A Doorway Chelsea, 1888-89

Housewife and Children Returning from the Laundry House, 1899

Street Doctors, 1877. Creator: John Thomson
Street Doctors, 1877. A work made of woodburytype, from the album " street life in london"

A Woman Spinning, Plate 4 from Five Feminine Occupations, ca. 1640-57

A Woman Cooking, Plate 3 from Five Feminine Occupations, ca. 1640-57. ca. 1640-57
A Woman Cooking, Plate 3 from Five Feminine Occupations, ca. 1640-57

Two Women Sewing, Plate 1 from Five Feminine Occupations, ca. 1640-57

Woman at the Gate, 1889. Creator: Camille Pissarro
Woman at the Gate, 1889

A Kitchen Scene, . n. d. Creator: Unknown
A Kitchen Scene, .n.d

Ann Chittenden, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Ann Chittenden, 1875

The Motograph Moving Picture Book, 1898. 1898. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Motograph Moving Picture Book, 1898

A British kitchen equipped with a cabinet gas cooker, 1942
A British kitchen equipped with a cabinet gas cooker designed and manufactured by R. and A. Main Ltd. of London, 1942. No

The Knife Grinder, from Four and Twenty Toilers, pub. 1900 (colour lithograph). accompanies verse by E.V. Lucas (Edward Verrall Lucas) (1868 – 1938);

German family at Christmas, Germany, 1936. A picture showing many children and their mother eating round a table. A portrait depicting happy home life

A Happy Mother, a National Socialist Ideal, Germany, 1936. A picture of a mother carrying a smiling baby, with another child hugging her

Kitchen scene, Warwick, Warwickshire, 1966. Artist: Michael Walters
Kitchen scene, Warwick, Warwickshire, 1966. A housewife attending to the cooking in her new kitchen. The kitchen is the new fitted American style with matching formica fronted doors

In the Bull Ring, Birmingham, May 1972. Women in the famous shopping centre

Vent Contraire, c19th century. A French satire on British counter-measures to possible hot-air balloon attacks from across the English Channel. From The Studio Volume 122

A Wife / Une Femme Mariee, 1791. Artist: John Raphael Smith
A Wife / Une Femme Mariee, 1791. From The Connoisseur Volume XX, edited by J. T. Herbert Baily. [Otto Limited, London, 1908]

A Woman and her Maid in a Courtyard, c1660-1661, (1933). Artist: Pieter de Hooch
A Woman and her Maid in a Courtyard, c1660-1661, (1933). From the collection of the National Gallery, London. Illustration from the Apollo, Volume XVIII, no 108, (December 1933)

Milkman, North London, 1926-1927. Artist: McLeish
Milkman, North London, 1926-1927. Milkman delivering Londons safest milk. Most people didn t have fridges at this time. Illustration from Wonderful London, volume I, edited by Arthur St John Adcock

Greengrocer bringing goods by boat, Marken, Holland, 1936. Artist: Donald McLeish
Greengrocer bringing goods by boat, Marken, Holland, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Fish seller, Scotland, 1936. Artist: Donald McLeish
Fish seller, Scotland, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Advertisement for Sunlight Soap, 1902. Not Yet One and Washing Done. Illustration from The Illustrated London News Record of The Coronation Service and Ceremony, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

The Young Housewife Study, c1878. Artist: William Quiller Orchardson
The Young Housewife Study, c1878. From The Studio Volume 50. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1910]

Konstnarens Wife, 1886 (1945). Artist: Sven Richard Bergh
Konstnarens Wife, 1886 (1945). A print from Konstnarsforbundets Historia I by Sixten Strombom, Stockholm, 1945

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