Aprons Collection

Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service. Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918
Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918. Students at the New York Cooking School, 126 East 59th Street. The school trained soldiers to cook for the Navy during World War I.

The Centenary Fete of the Asylum for Female Orphans - the Archbishop of Canterbury Saying Grace, 1858 Creator: Unknown
The Centenary Fete of the Asylum for Female Orphans - the Archbishop of Canterbury Saying Grace, 1858. The object of the charity is to provide a home for orphan girls

A Merry Tale, Printed 1889-1891. Creator: Henry Peach Robinson
A Merry Tale, Printed 1889-1891

Dienstmeisjes op de Leidsegracht, c.1890-c.1900. Creator: Isaac Lazerus Israels
Maids on the Leidsegracht, c.1890-c.1900. (The Leidsegracht is a canal in Amsterdam)

Scheveningen women digging in a potato field, 1874. Creator: Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadee
Scheveningen women digging in a potato field, 1874

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938

Episode of a feast at Amager, 1854. Creator: Julius Exner
Episode of a feast at Amager, 1854

Mrs. Thomas Marshall, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Mrs. Thomas Marshall, between 1910 and 1920
Mrs. Thomas Marshall, between 1910 and 1920. Woman knitting, with display of aprons and knitted items for sale, possibly a fundraising event. Sign written on US Senate notepaper

'The Installation of the Duke of Clarence at Reading as Provisional Grand Master of the Berkshire F Creator
'The Installation of the Duke of Clarence at Reading as Provisional Grand Master of the Berkshire Freemasons, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42

Mrs. Blair's surgical dressing room, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Mrs
Mrs. Blair's surgical dressing room, between 1910 and 1920. Women in Red Cross uniform preparing bandages. Posters on wall read: Gee!

All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Ceremonies At Laying of A Cornerstone At 16th And R. Church Not Built There, Later Built At 16th And Harvard St. Diag

All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Ceremonies At Laying of A Cornerstone At 16th And R. Church Not Built There, Later Built At 16th And Harvard St

All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Ceremonies At 16th and R. Church Not Built There, Later Built At 16th And Harvard St. Front, 3rd From Left, Samuel R

Columbus Memorial Construction, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Columbus Memorial Construction, 1912
Columbus Memorial Construction, 1912. [Carving of the world globe section of the Columbus Fountain, also known as the Columbus Memorial

"The Launch" - painted by G. Smith, 1854. Creator: Unknown. "The Launch" - painted by G
"The Launch" - painted by G. Smith, 1854. This spirited little affair represents an amusing episode in schoolboy life

Government Printing office - Views, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Government Printing office - Views, 1912
Government Printing office - Views, 1912. Workers in US government office

Self-help cooperative dairy, near Santa Ana, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The self-help cooperative dairy which is being taken over by the Resettlement Administration, near Santa Ana, California. This dairy supplies milk to the Civilian Conservation Corps camps nearby

Sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, near Hartsville, South Carolina, 1938
Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field

Spindle-Spinning Wool Gathered from the Hedges, 1943. Creator: Unknown
Spindle-Spinning Wool Gathered from the Hedges, 1943. British women contribute to the war effort. From "Women's Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

Group of labourers in front of a chain-link fence, between 1905-1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Group of labourers standing, posed, in front of a chain-link fence, with sacks piled behind, [Russia/Central Asia?], between 1905 and 1915. Goods wagon on the left

Newhaven fishermen and fishwives, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Newhaven fishermen and fishwives, 1862....the fisheries are one of the chief natural resources of Scotland...At Newhaven, near Edinburgh

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: casting the shot and shell for 100 pounders, 1862. In viewing the manner in which the work is carried out in the various branches of the Royal

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: welding the coil, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: coiling the bars, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the... 1862. Creator: W Thomas
Manufacture of the Armstrong Gun at Woolwich Arsenal: drawing down and welding the bars previous to coiling, 1862. An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field

Appy Ampstead on a Bank Holiday, 1900, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Appy Ampstead on a Bank Holiday, 1900, (1933)....maid servants...still wore the badge of their status - the apron - even on their day out

Wooden box industry - female workers posing with Mrs. Graham, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Wooden box industry - female workers posing with Mrs. Graham, c1910

Students in workshop, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. 1902. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Students in workshop, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. 1902. [African American students learning practical skills. Note stove for heating]

Laundry class, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1901. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Laundry class, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1901. (Boarding school for Native American students, founded in 1879 under US governmental authority)

United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, six boys doing laundry, 1901. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. six boys doing laundry, 1901. (Boarding school for Native American students, founded in 1879 under US governmental authority)

Cook house, 1893. Creator: Unknown
Cook house, 1893. [ Camp McKibbin, Maryland. African American cooks preparing food for the army]

Camp McKibbin, Marshall Hall, 1893. Creator: William Cruikshank
Camp McKibbin, Marshall Hall, 1893. [Cook house, Maryland. African American cooks preparing food for the army]

Garcons de Cafe, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Garcons de Cafe, 1894. French waiters. From The Yellow Book, Vol. II. The original was once the property of the artists House-Master at the Brighton Grammar School

Mrs. Logan and Two Unknown Women, Newhaven, 1843 / 47, printed c. 1916
Mrs. Logan and Two Unknown Women, Newhaven, 1843/47, printed c. 1916. Carbon print

Llanberis, Group of Three Welsh Peasants, 1850s-1910s. Creator: Unknown
Llanberis, Group of Three Welsh Peasants, 1850s-1910s

Newhaven Fishwives, 1843-47. Creators: David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson
Newhaven Fishwives, 1843-47

Newhaven Fishwives, ca. 1845. Creators: David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson
Newhaven Fishwives, ca. 1845

Newhaven Fishwife, 1843-47. Creators: David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson
Newhaven Fishwife, 1843-47

[Group of Adults and Children on a Village Street in the Auvergne], ca. 1910

[Carpenter and Apprentice], ca. 1844. Creator: William Henry Fox Talbot
[Carpenter and Apprentice], ca. 1844

The Pea Cart, April 16, 1788. April 16, 1788. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
The Pea Cart, April 16, 1788

The Welcome to the Victims of Masculine Tyranny 1908, (1933). Creator: Unknown
The Welcome to the Victims of Masculine Tyranny 1908, (1933). A group of British suffragettes, recently released from prison, with a Welcome banner

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