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A woman stealing some sugar by emptying it into her pocket is discovered by a manservant of the household. Wood engraving by Swain & Co..
Reference: 31998i- Books
Housecraft and statecraft : domestic service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 / Dennis Romano.
Romano, Dennis, 1951-Date: 1996- Books
The domestic revolution : the modernisation of household service in England and France, 1820-1920 / Theresa M. McBride.
McBride, Theresa Marie, 1947-Date: 1976- Books
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Proposals of the office, erected and kept in Ironmonger-Lane, near Cheap-side, for raising advantages for servants that shall continue in one place or service, and that shall behave themselves well during such service. ...
Date: 1710?]- Pictures
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A priest taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Engraving by Remi Parr after N. Lancret.
Lancret, Nicolas, 1690-1743.Reference: 25252i- Books
The compleat servant-maid; or the young maidens tutor. Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. waitnig[!]-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid ... Whereunto is added a suppliment containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English hams ... The compleat market-man and market-woman ... / Never before printed.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.Date: 1704- Ephemera
Hudson's Dry Soap : once used always used ... directions for using ... / [R.S. Hudson].
R. S. Hudson Limited.Date: [1880?]- Pictures
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Chubdah or running footman and wife. Gouache drawing.
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Two black domestic servants in European dress. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
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A black man stands in the office of a white lawyer whose servant he is, while across the road is the pharmacy where he had previously been a servant. Engraving, 1805.
Date: May 29th 1805Reference: 33038i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a patient who virtually falls off his chair in pain, a servant hovers in the background. Etching.
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A maid playing with a baby on her knee points out its curly hair to the visiting doctor; he replies that the mother was in curling tongs when she gave birth. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17072i- Pictures
An Aboriginal woman with three children. Photograph, ca.1900.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 541320iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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The conduct of servants in great families. Consisting of dissertations upon several passages of the holy scriptures, relating to the office of a servant: With Ejaculations upon the Subject-Matter of Each Discourse. To these are annex'd, a persuasive to a constant attendance at the devotions of the family, and at the Holy Communion: And an Earnest Exhortation to refrain from Swearing, Cursing, and Drunkenness: Each of which Subjects are distinctly treated in several Chapters. To which are added, Some Directions to Regulate the Private Devotions of Servants; with Prayers and Hymns for that Purpose. The Whole is composed for the Especial Use of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Servants. By Thomas Seaton, M. A. Chaplain to the Right Honourable Daniel Earl of Nottingham, and Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.
Seaton, Thomas.Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- 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- Pictures
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A pretty maid carrying drinking chocolate on a tray. Stipple engraving by A. H. Payne after Liotard, c. 1743.
Liotard, Jean-Etienne, 1702-1789.Date: 1743Reference: 25429i- Pictures
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A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
Browne, Gordon, 1858-1932.Date: 1899Reference: 15205i- Books
The housekeeper and the professor / Yoko Ogawa.
Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-Date: 2009- Pictures
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A wealthy Chinese man sits at home smoking: two servants stand nearby. Coloured aquatint by T. & W. Daniell, c. 1810.
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.Date: 1 August 1810Reference: 25454i- Books
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The book of the home : a practical guide to household management / produced under the general editorship of H.C. Davidson ; assisted by over one hundred specialists ; with coloured plates and numerous illustrations.
Date: 1900-1901- Pictures
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A maid puts a key down a man's shirt to stop his nosebleed. Lithograph, c. 1835-1841.
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A good servant, represented as a hybrid creature combining a man, a pig, an ass and a deer, carrying cleaning implements and having a padlocked mouth. Engraving after J. Hoskins.
Hoskins, John, 1566-1638.Reference: 29723i- Pictures
A man and a woman dining together; a servant enters the room. Photograph after G. Metsu.
Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.Reference: 3064094i