Polishing Collection

The Servant, 19th century. Creator: Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere
The Servant, 19th century

A Woman Polishing Copper Pans, c18th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
A Woman Polishing Copper Pans, c18th century

An uneasy couple; The old farmer caresses the cook's maid, 1625-1688. Creator: Jan Miense Molenaer
An uneasy couple; The old farmer caresses the cook's maid who is polishing silverware in the manor's kitchen, 1625-1668

Woman scouring a vessel, 1631-1677. Creator: Willem van Odekercken
Woman scouring a vessel, 1631-1677. Other Title(s): Woman scouring a vessel

Polishing department, National Cash Register [Company], Dayton, Ohio, (1902?). Creator: Unknown
Polishing department, National Cash Register [Company], Dayton, Ohio, (1902?)

Mr Hume se passant la fantaisie... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Mr Hume se passant la fantaisie... 19th century. Mr Hume passing the fantasy

On n'est jamais bien servi que par soi-même, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
On n'est jamais bien servi que par soi-meme, 19th century. Proverbs and maxims - You are only ever well served by yourself

Portrait of Frankie Laine, New York, N.Y. 1946. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Frankie Laine, New York, N.Y. 1946

Needhams Polishing Paste, 1886. Creator: Unknown
Needhams Polishing Paste, 1886. From " The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

The Independent Shoe-Black, 1881. Creator: John Thomson
The Independent Shoe-Black, 1881. A work made of woodburytype, plate 21 in the book " street incidents" (1881)

The Independent Shoe-Black, 1877. Creator: John Thomson
The Independent Shoe-Black, 1877. A work made of woodburytype, from the album " street life in london"

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1860s. Creator: Unknown
Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1860s

Servants, Batavia, 1860s-70s. Creator: Unknown
Servants, Batavia, 1860s-70s

Le Bateme de la Cloche and Benediction de la Cloche, 1724. Creator: Bernard Picart
Le Bateme de la Cloche and Benediction de la Cloche, 1724. Baptism and blessing of the bell for a church clock. The bell is polished, and priests say prayers over it

Housewifery lesson, Morden Terrace School, Greenwich, London, 1908. One girl polishes a table while another prepares to clean out a fireplace

Shoeshine, New York, USA, mid 1930s

Shoe shiners working on board the Staten Island Ferry, New York, USA, c1920s-c1930s

Advertisement for Berrys boot polish, 1887

Sailors polishing the 16 inch guns of HMS Nelson, 1937. HMS Nelson was a Nelson-class battleship of the Royal Navy built between the two World Wars

The Art of Grinding and Polishing of Plate-Glass, 1748

Lens manufacture, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900). Artist: L Sabattier
Lens manufacture, Paris World Exposition, 1889, (1900). Grinding a glass block to make lenses for giant telescopes

Woman polishing shoes, Brussels, 1898. Artist: James Batkin
Woman polishing shoes, Brussels, 1898. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898)

Polishing the mirror of the Hubble Telescope, 1980s. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), was designed to see seven times further into space than had been possible before

Grinding and polishing plate glass, 1760. From The Universal Magazine London 1760

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