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A mechanical housemaid constructed from pieces of household equipment. Engraving by G. Bickham the younger.
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 29705i- Pictures
An Aboriginal woman with three children. Photograph, ca.1900.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 541320iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
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A physician is examining a boil on a woman servant's arm, and asks if she has had boils in any other places: she replies that she has, but that there were also Jewish people there. Lithograph after F. Jüttner, 1909.
Jüttner, Franz, 1865-1926.Date: 1909Reference: 577239iPart of: Unsere Ärzte: various medical caricatures.- Pictures
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Two maids confer on whether to 'refresh' a sick man even further by putting cold water into his enema. Lithograph by Cham, c. 1840.
Cham, 1819-1879.Reference: 16466iPart of: Miroir Caricatural- Pictures
Phyllis, in the opera "The lady slavey". Etching.
Date: [189?-?]Reference: 673097i- Books
The housekeeper and the professor / Yoko Ogawa.
Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-Date: 2009- Pictures
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A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1803?-1806] ;Reference: 662684i- Pictures
World War One: portrait of a kitchen maid by a trolley of pans. Colour chalk drawing, c. 1914.
Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956.Date: 1914Reference: 24600i- Pictures
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A maid puts a key down a man's shirt to stop his nosebleed. Lithograph, c. 1835-1841.
Reference: 16472i- Books
Superior servants : the legendary Cantonese amahs of the Far East / Kenneth Gaw.
Gaw, Kenneth, 1939-Date: 1988- Pictures
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The birth of Pyrrhus, his mother Deidamia (?) recovers in bed while servants wash and tend him. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1797, after A. Carracci.
Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602.Date: 17 April 1797Reference: 17653i- Pictures
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An obese gouty man with his feet in buckets. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 10735i- Ephemera
Maid to dress correctly.
Date: [1992]- Pictures
A gouty man seeking comfort in licentious surroundings. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1785.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1 July 1802Reference: 10512i- Ephemera
Hudson's Dry Soap : once used always used ... directions for using ... / [R.S. Hudson].
R. S. Hudson Limited.Date: [1880?]- Ephemera
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There is beauty in a hand free from roughness : Snowfire Glycerine Jelly Vanishing.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Books
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : containing general rules for the regulation of female conduct, and the formation of moral habits; together with the elements of science, as geography, astronomy, natural history, botany, &c. ... being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life.
Date: 1837- Books
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : containing general rules for the regulation of female conduct, and the formation of moral habits; together with the elements of science, as geography, astronomy, natural history, botany, &c. ... being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life.
Date: 1836- Ephemera
Maid to dress correctly : brand new, open early.
Date: [1992]- Archives and manuscripts
Ministry of Social Security, Selective Employment Tax: Refunds to Employers of domestic or nursing help in private households
Date: c.1966Reference: SA/MWF/N.14/8Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge.
Date: [1824]- Books
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge.
Date: [1825?]- Pictures
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A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
Reference: 21798i- Books
Women's work : a personal reckoning with labour, motherhood, and privilege / Megan K. Stack.
Stack, Megan K.Date: 2019- E-books
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The Irish Bridget : Irish immigrant women in domestic service in America, 1840-1930 / Margaret Lynch-Brennan ; with a foreword by Maureen O'Rourke Murphy.
Lynch-Brennan, Margaret.Date: 2009