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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- Books
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The complete servant maid: or young woman's best companion. Containing full, plain, and easy directions for qualifying them for service in general, but more especially for the Places of Lady's Woman, Housekeeper, Chambermaid, Nursery Maid, Housemaid, Laundry Maid, Cook Maid, Kitchen, or Scullery Maid, Dairy Maid. To which are added, Useful Instructions for discharging the Duties of each Character, with Reputation to themselves, and Satisfaction to their Employers. Including A Variety of useful Receipts (proper to be known by all Young Persons) particularly for cleaning Household Furniture, Silks, Laces, Gold, Silver, Wearing Apparel, &c. &c. By Mrs. Anne Barker, Who having for many Years discharged the Office of Housekeeper in the most respectable Families, wishes to communicate her Experience to those of her own Sex, whose Circumstances oblige them to live in Servitude.
Barker, Anne.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Considerations on establishing a college for old maids in Ireland.
Date: M.D.CC.XC. [1790]- Books
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A Seasonable proposal for the benefite and advantage of women-servants.
Date: 1710?]- 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
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Working women of Manila in the 19th century / Ma. Luisa Camagay.
Camagay, Maria Luisa TDate: [1995], ©1995- 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- Books
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A view of London and Westminster: or, The town spy. Containing I. Merry characters of the trades people, Half-Pay Officers, and the Guards at St. Margaret's in Westminster; and of the Quality, and the Secret Practices of their Servants at St. James's. II. The Customs, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants in St. Anne's Soho, St. Martin's, and St. Giles's in the Fields: Together with a true Description of Drury-Lane, and the New Votes and Schemes of the Irish-Society of Fortune-Hunters. III. Of a Verdict given against a Barrister of the Temple, for p---ssing against a Soldier's Post at Somerset-House; and of the secret Practices of the Undertakers, with the Physicians Servants. IV. Of the Lawyers at St. Clements, and St. Dunstan's, the kept Mistresses at St. Andrew's, the High and Low Church Mobs at St. Brides, the Blackfryers Printers, and the Ludgate Mercers. V. An Account of Jonathan Wilde's Funeral Procession, and of a surprising Specifick for the Cure of Felonious, Fraudulent, and Corrupt Habits, being an Handkerchief dipped in his Blood, very necessary to be used at this time in Great Britain. VI. A character of a city Church-Warden, the Customs of the Citizens on the Sabbath; the Pride, Intrigues, and Degeneracy of the City Wives, of the Band of Petticoat Pensioners begetting young Merchants and Shopkeepers: Also of the Adventures of Nrtn and Rod -igo, two famous Stallions, &c.
Date: [1725]- 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]- Ephemera
Hudson's Dry Soap : once used always used ... directions for using ... / [R.S. Hudson].
R. S. Hudson Limited.Date: [1880?]- 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
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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]- Books
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Pamela; or, virtue rewarded. In a series of familiar letters from a beautiful young damsel to her parents. Published, in Order to Cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has it's foundation in Truth; and at the Same Time that it Agreeably Entertains, by a Variety of Curious and affecting Incidents, is Interply Divested of all those Images, which in too many Pieces Calculated for Amusement only, Tend to Inflame the Minds they should Instruct. To which are Prefixed, Extracts from Several Curious Letters, Written to the Editor on the Subject. By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In four volumes.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]